Pyrum Innovations gears up for capacity boost at main site

Capacity at Pyrum Innovations AG’s main plant in Dillingen/Saar, Germany will soon increase following the successful warm commissioning of the site’s two new pyrolysis reactors. With licensing authorities having given the green light for production to start, Pyrum will soon begin recovering oil from end-of-life tyres within Reactors 2 & 3.

Warm commissioning of the two pyrolysis reactors follows the cold commissioning and the componentry calibration and testing that took place over recent weeks. The Pyrum team also tested automatic operation and completed employee training during this period. The reactors now contain all liquid media required for operations and Pyrum has performed leak tests to verify readiness for production.

When production commences, Pyrum will successively ramp up the Reactor 2 line to 75 per cent. It will utilise any experience gained from this procedure when ramping up the Reactor 3 line to 75 per cent throughput. It will then gradually increase both lines to 100 per cent together. Pyrum aims to carry out the ramp up to full capacity utilisation “as quickly as possible” but cautions that the process may take several months to complete.

“We are very pleased to be starting production on our two new lines soon,” says Pascal Klein, chief executive officer of Pyrum Innovations AG. “With the cold commissioning, which has already been completed, and the warm commissioning that has already begun, everything went extremely well and we are very satisfied. We are now in the final stages of expanding our site in Dillingen, tripling our capacity to 20,000 tonnes of used tyres per year. At the same time, our work on six additional keywords is progressing rapidly.”