LD Carbon has established Korea’s first and the largest ELT resource circulation plant in Dangjin and held its completion ceremony on the 24th. The LD Carbon Dangjin plant is located in the ‘Dangjin Hapdeok General Industrial Complex.’ Upon entering the plant, built on a site of 29,800㎡ (approx. 9,000 pyeong), two factory buildings and five silos immediately catch the eye.
The UK Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) has been sounding the alarm for years, but now the subject of end-of-life tyre exports to India in general and to illegal pyrolysis plants in particular has come under the BBC’s spotlight. The issues are not new, but mass-media coverage means awareness is being raised both amongst the public […]
Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) has shared a progress update for the Infiniteria tyre recycling plant in Sweden, whose construction it is managing and coordinating. According to Enviro, the project is “progressing well” and the site in Uddevalla is now ready for the installation of production equipment.
On 28 February, Wastefront held a groundbreaking ceremony for its £100 million tyre-to-fuel facility at the Port of Sunderland. The project initially focuses on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production. On that note, in January, British Airways-owner International Airways Group, invested in Wastefront became the first European airline group to aim for 10 per cent SAF usage by 2030.
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.
Orion S.A., which makes carbon black, has signed a long-term supply agreement with Contec S.A., which will provide Orion tyre pyrolysis oil to produce circular carbon black for tire and rubber goods customers. The agreement with Warsaw, Poland-based Contec further enables Orion to diversify its sources of tyre pyrolysis oil, commonly known as TPO.
Bridgestone Corporation will pilot the pyrolysis process for recycling end-of-life tyres within a new demonstration plant at its Seki production site together with Eneos Corporation and supported by the Japanese government’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). Starting construction work in November 2025, the partners aim to bring this plant into operation in September 2027 with a capacity to process 7,500 tonnes of tyres annually.
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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