Tyre recycling: Linglong signs agreement with Cleantire

In October 2021, Linglong Tire established a strategic cooperation with China-based renewable resources company Cleantire. The tyre maker declares that it was thus the “first tyre company in the world to achieve a strategic alliance with a waste tyre recycling company,” and although others may contest this title, the partnership is nonetheless significant. Linglong chairman and president, Wang Feng, signed a further comprehensive strategic cooperative agreement with Jiang Young, president of Cleantire, during an online ceremony at the start of April 2022.

“With the deepening of the concept of environmental protection, recycling and disposing of waste tyres has become a hot topic in the industry,” comments Linglong Tire. “As a tyre company at the forefront of technological innovation, Linglong cooperated with various universities as early as more than ten years ago to explore how to generate clean energy from waste tyres and the recycling and reuse of waste tyres.”

Advanced technologies

The tyre maker describes Cleantire as a technology-based group company that integrates the R&D, design, production, and sales of renewable resources. It holds a leading market position in China and reportedly utilises advanced technologies such as pyrolysis recovery of waste tyres and deep processing of cracked carbon black.

“This signing is an inevitable choice for the development of higher levels, stronger strength, and bigger goals in both directions,” comments Linglong Tire. “Relying on the strategic layout of Linglong’s ‘7+5’ global 12 production bases, the company will cooperate with Cleantire to choose the nearest build waste tyre recycling factories in suitable regions, accelerate the realisation of a unified layout and management, and build a comprehensive utilisation industry chain of tyre R&D, manufacturing, retreading, and waste tyre recycling and reuse for the entire life cycle of the tyre.”

Linglong Tire says it and Cleantire “actively respond” to China’s ‘dual carbon’ goals of reaching a peak in carbon emissions before 2030 and becoming “carbon neutral” before 2060. The tyre maker adds that the partners “cooperate in an all-around way from a macro perspective” and jointly promote the “high-value recycling of global waste tyres,” thereby playing a “leading role in the social responsibility of the entire industry.”

Linglong & Cleantire established a strategic cooperation in October 2021 (Photo: Linglong Tire)