Siemens MoU to aid Enviro’s European expansion plan

Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) and Siemens have signed a Memorandum of Understanding regarding a collaboration to support the European expansion plan that Enviro announced together with Antin Infrastructure Partners earlier this year. Through the collaboration, Siemens’ “extensive experience in automation and digitalisation” will help boost the efficiency of Enviro’s production.

Together with Antin Infrastructure Partners and with the support of Michelin, Enviro has formed the world’s first large-scale tyre recycling company. By 2030, the partners plan to establish recycling facilities in Europe that have a total annual recycling capacity of 1 million tonnes of end-of-life tyres. Siemens, already a supplier of both hardware and software to the tyre industry, will support Enviro during the upcoming phase of broad industrialisation.

“With the formation of the tyre recycling joint venture company, Enviro has acquired the right industrial structure and the right partner company to be able to seriously take part in the transformation of the tyre industry towards increased sustainability,” says Maria Grahm, business unit manager Process Automation at Siemens Digital Industries. “As a supplier and partner, Siemens wants to support the new tyre recycling company and thereby help accelerate the important journey towards increased sustainability.”

The core of the tyre recycling company’s upcoming industrial expansion is Enviro’s proprietary and module-based recycling technology that enables the extraction of valuable raw materials from used tyres, including carbon black and oil. The volume of end-of-life tyres is growing steadily and amounts to 3.5 million tonnes per year in Europe alone.

“Digitalisation and automation will be central to the rollout of our technology and we are convinced that Siemens can add extensive valuable knowledge in the field,” says Thomas Sörensson, chief executive officer of Enviro.