In order to be ready for the upcoming opening of its £4.1 million cryogenic plant in South Wales, Yorkshire’s Credential Environmental has begun to upgrade its Breighton, North Yorkshire shredding facility. This site, along with the company’s facility in the West Midlands town of Wednesbury, will process scrap tyres into a format that allows them to be frozen with liquid nitrogen and crumbed at the new plant, and Credential wishes to ensure that no bottlenecks will occur in the entire process.

To ensure the shredding plants can keep up with the cryogenic plant’s 30,000 tonne per year capacity, Credential Environmental will spend £400,000 boosting capacity of the Breighton facility, which last year processed 15 million tyres and will be the main site the company uses for supplying the new plant. A major component of this upgrade includes the installation of two new £150,000 tyre shredding rotors, manufactured by Columbus McKinnon. Improvement to the plant’s infrastructure, including the building of new walkways and firebreaks, has also been planned.

The new cryogenic facility, located in Neath, is a joint venture between Credential Environmental, BOC Gases and Field Turf Inc, a manufacturer of artificial sports pitch surfaces. The shredded tyres entering the plant will be treated with the nitrogen to make them brittle and then shattered with hammers into tyre crumbs that can then be used in a variety of applications from sealants to sports pitches.