The Tire Recycling Foundation (TRF) has appointed Stephanie Mull as its executive director. Mull will lead the USA-based organisation’s efforts to drive innovation and invest in the circular tyre economy, grow end-of-life tyre markets, and support research to address gaps in the tyre recycling supply chain and sustainability.
Starting Monday 5 May, environmental charity A Peace for Nature is heading the Ogmore River Clean Project, a large-scale community led initiative to remove thousands of end-of-life tyres from Ogmore River and Estuary in South Wales. The five-day clean up aims to protect aquatic habitats and wildlife and preserve the natural landscape for future generations. Continental Tyres has pledged its support for the project.
Tyre recycling firm Big Atom has shared details of its partnership with independent wholesaler Tyre Spot. With branches across the Northeast stocking over 60,000 tyres daily, Tyre Spot recently selected Big Atom to manage its tyre recycling. The recycler says this partnership allows Tyre Spot to streamline operations, focusing on delivering high- quality new tyres without the extra task of handling used ones. “Now, drivers can prioritise efficient, timely deliveries, enhancing customer service without the hassle of scrap tyre collection,” it adds.
Polish tyre recycling specialist Recykl has achieved a milestone with the signing of its first international M&A transaction. The deal sees the company acquire a 100 per cent shareholding in Lithuania’s UAB Antrinio perdirbimo grupė (APG), which with an annual volume of 20,000 tonnes is the largest used tyre collector and processor in the Baltic States region. APG operates under the name Tirebee Recycling.
Under a new partnership agreement, energy infrastructure company VTTI and pyrolysis tyre recycling specialist Pyrum Innovations plan to establish a thermolysis tyre recycling plant at VTTI’s Antwerp Terminal. The VTTI-owned facility will have a processing capacity of up to 45,000 tonnes of end-of-life tyres in the first project phase and double this in the second. Going forward, VTTI aims to develop similar plants at its sites across the globe.
Pyrum Innovations shares the news that it has completed the mechanical assembly of a new grinding plant at its main site in Dillingen, Germany. The pyrolysis tyre recycler is now installing the cabling that will supply power to the plant ahead of its scheduled start of operations in April 2025.
Earlier this month, key employees of Infiniteria, the joint venture company established by Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) and Antin Infrastructure Partners, moved to the location in Sweden where the joint venture is establishing its first full-scale waste tyre recycling plant. They arrived at the site a little under a year since the project’s official groundbreaking. As of February 2025, most exterior plant components are in place, with the next phase of work involving the installation of key production equipment.
Anyone who likes an acronym will love the Sustainable Materials for Innovative, Low Emissions applications in the CIrcular ciTY project. The European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA), coordinator of the European Commission-based venture, jauntily calls it SMILE CITY.
The Port of Ostend has confirmed that recycling firm Tyros BV is establishing a facility for processing end-of-life tyres on a two-hectare site within the port area. Supported by Belgium’s Flanders regional government, which has granted one million euros in strategic ecological support, Tyros is investing in an electric pyrolysis reactor with an annual capacity to convert 9,125 tonnes of rubber granulate from discarded tyres into raw materials such as carbon black, pyrolysis oil, and syngas.
A groundbreaking collaboration between Bridgestone and three other organisations aims to develop advanced recycling technologies for the secondary processing of recovered carbon black extracted from end-of-life tyres and other rubber polymer products. The aim is to convert this into a material with rubber reinforcement properties equivalent to those of virgin carbon black.
International Airlines Group (IAG), parent company of British Airways and four other airlines, has invested in a future source of sustainable aviation fuel. IAG has not disclosed the level of this investment in Norwegian waste-to-fuel business Wastefront but explains that it will help the firm establish its proposed tyre-to-fuel facility in northeast England.
During the first week of the year, Greek firm Thermo Lysi SA gained approval to build a tyre recycling plant using Pyrum Innovations’ pyrolysis process. Having now obtained all necessary permits and licences for the construction of the new plant, nothing prevents the confirmation of a final investment decision. Pyrum Innovations expects that this decision to come in the first half of 2025.
A little over a year after first selecting a site near Germany’s border with Luxembourg for its second wholly owned waste tyre pyrolysis facility, Pyrum Innovations AG has progressed plans further by submitting approval documents relevant to Germany’s Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG).
With the installation of a new milling line at its Hawkesbury site in Canada, Ecolomondo Corporation will have the capacity to mill an additional tonne or so (2,200 lbs) of recovered carbon black (rCB) hourly. This milling line replaces a previously installed line which failed to achieve the promised output of 725 kg (1,600 lbs) per hour of rCB and additionally didn’t yield the particle size of 10-15 microns required by many Ecolomondo rCB off-takers.
For the first time, Pyrum Innovations is operating all three production lines at its main site in Dillingen/Saar, Germany. The thermolysis waste tyre recycling specialist reports that the new TAD 2 and TAD 3 lines have been running alongside the original TAD 1 line since last weekend and will operate in unison for a week before TAD 1 is closed down for scheduled maintenance.
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