Charles Lawrence gets cleaner steel from tyres

Nottinghamshire-based Charles Lawrence International processes around 18,000 tonnes of commercial vehicle tyres a year at its £1.5 million granulating plant and has developed machinery to improve the recovery of steel from tyres. Over 72,000 tonnes of tyres recycled each year in the UK, creating 21,000 tonnes of a valuable high-grade steel fibre with a low copper content.

But because the steel is contaminated by residual rubber from the granulating process, it is rejected by steel processing plants and has to be landfilled. Charles Lawrence International’s new process claims to recover cleaner steel which can be recycled by steel processors. .