Norwegian waste tyre recycling company, Wastefront, says that one of Europe’s largest distributors of products for the rubber industry, Weber & Schaer has signed a strategic offtake and on-sale agreement for its recovered carbon black (rCB). The agreement secures Wastefront’s…
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Enviro, Antin, Michelin to set up large-scale tyre recycling group
Tyre recycler Scandinavian Enviro Systems and private equity firm Antin Infrastructure Partners have established a joint venture to, based on Enviro’s technology, create what they say is the world’s first large-scale tyre recycling group. The jv plans to establish plants…
SK Incheon invests in tyre recycler LD Carbon
SK Incheon Petrochem, a a wholly owned subsidiary of SK Innovation, has acquired LD Carbon, a Seoul-based start-up with technologies for recycling waste tyres. The move is part of the oil refinery’s effort to diversify its business portfolio to recycling,…
Recycling: Thermoset rubber circular economy
Devulcanising crumb rubber from scrapped tyres to mould new engineered products presents a solution to the huge and ever growing ecological issue of waste tyres and a way to a real circular economy for thermoset rubbers. One of the biggest…