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Tyre recycling: Work to start on Enviro & Antin JV plant

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Uddevalla Municipality in Sweden has authorised Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) to proceed with the construction of its new joint venture end-of-life tyre recycling plant. This clearance comes after Enviro, Antin Infrastructure Partners, and Michelin reached a final decision on the project’s investment on 7 February. Having secured all essential environmental and construction approvals, Enviro anticipates commencing construction in the first quarter of 2024.

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  1. Enviro, Antin partnering to recycle 1 million tonnes of tyres by 2030
  2. Enviro share issue funding JV, operations
  3. Enviro develops ‘improved’ rCB
  4. Fredrik Alpner to manage Enivro’s current & upcoming plant
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Asahi Kasei Europe joins Plastics Europe

At the end of January, Asahi Kasei Europe reported that it joined Plastics Europe Germany in December 2023. With close to 100 members producing over 90 per cent of all polymers across Europe, Plastics Europe is a leading association in its field.

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  1. SABIC introduces new synthetic rubbers
  2. Falken Tire Europe raises tyre prices, UK market unaffected
  3. Carbon black and gas prices push tyre manufacturer supply situation to a head
  4. Asahi Kasei Europe joins blockchain technology pilot
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Biomass butadiene plant inaugurated at Michelin site

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Together with partners IFPEN and Axens, Michelin has brought an industrial scale bio-based butadiene demonstrator plant into operation in France. The facility is located at Michelin’s Bassens site near Bordeaux. The aim is to develop and commercialise butadiene from plant biomass-derived ethanol as a replacement for petrochemical-based butadiene.

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  1. BioButterfly: Michelin site to gain prototype bioethanol-based butadiene plant
  2. TREC: Michelin partners to extract alcohol and rubber from used tyres
  3. Continental “working at full speed” to restructure rubber supply chains
  4. Recovered carbon black: Michelin & Bridgestone launching joint initiative
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Further carbon black capacities in Asia – 2 new Birla Carbon plants

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Birla Carbon has announced new greenfield projects in India and Thailand. The facilities will be respectively located in Niadupet, Andhra Pradesh and Rayong and each will have an initial capacity of 120 kMT when they become operational in 2025. Birla Carbon will develop the sites with an eye to expanding both to 240 kMT in the future.

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  1. Birla Carbon appoints Chief Digital & Information Officer
  2. Birla Carbon closes US$750 million Sustainability Linked Loan
  3. Linglong Tire signs carbon black agreement with Aditya Birla Group
  4. Birla Carbon releases 7th sustainability report
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Pyrum establishes subsidiary for second pyrolysis plant

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At the start of January, Pyrum Innovations established a wholly owned subsidiary to operate its second pyrolysis tyre recycling plant. This ‘Pyrum GreenFactory II GmbH’ facility is located in Perl-Besch on the Moselle, in Germany’s Saarland region, and will enter service by the end of 2025. Pyrum has modelled the plant on its main site in nearby Dillingen/Saar, and when operational it will double the company’s recycling capacity to 40,000 tonnes of used tyres per annum. Pyrum says it already starting to order certain plant components – those with “notoriously long delivery times” – in the first quarter of 2024.

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  1. Pyrum & partners gain Materialica award for waste tyre car parts
  2. Pyrum Innovations gears up for capacity boost at main site
  3. First pyrolysis oil made in Pyrum’s expanded plant
  4. Pyrum Innovations still building second plant – but not in Homburg
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ISCC Plus certification for further Asahi Kasei products

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Several products made by Asahi Kasei and a 75 per cent-owned subsidiary have acquired the widely recognised ISCC Plus sustainability certification. The list of newly certified products includes materials used in tyre production.

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  1. ISCC Plus certification for Asahi Kasei’s Asaprene
  2. Sustainable S-SBR: Asahi Kasei & Shell sign butadiene agreement
  3. Asahi Kasei: “We have an ambitious plan for Europe”
  4. Asahi Kasei selling mass-balanced BR and S-SBR
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Job cuts & shortages – stress for Michelin in Spain

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In November Michelin announced it would lay off 176 workers at two Spanish plants in response to forecasted weak demand, and this month it will – albeit for an entirely different reason – halt production at four facilities within the country for a two-day period.

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  1. Lehigh Technologies opens MRP plant in Spain
  2. Uncertain future for 3 Michelin plants in Germany
  3. Lehigh Technologies: European MRP production beginning this summer
  4. Goodyear reports $101 million net loss in Q1 2023, EMEA cost cutting accelerated despite breakeven
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Energy costs too high – Versalis closing UK plant

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Versalis has decided to permanently close its Grangemouth chemicals plant in Scotland due to a significant downturn in demand for elastomers. This announcement came a month after Petroineos, owner of the Grangemouth oil refinery, confirmed it would cease operations in 2025.

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  1. Temporary measure or close of play? Pirelli stops production in Venezuela
  2. Sustainable S-SBR: Asahi Kasei & Shell sign butadiene agreement
  3. Synthos closing Czech ESBR line due to ‘unpredictable costs in Europe’
  4. Pirelli restarts Venezuela production
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ISCC Plus certification for Asahi Kasei’s Asaprene

Asahi Kasei reports that, together with an affiliated company, it has acquired ISCC Plus sustainability certification for several products, including Asaprene solution polymerised SBR for applications such as tyre treads and casings.

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  1. Sustainable S-SBR: Asahi Kasei & Shell sign butadiene agreement
  2. Asahi Kasei: “We have an ambitious plan for Europe”
  3. Up to 65% sustainable materials – Continental launches UltraContact NXT
  4. UK-Canadian team wins Synthos Rubber Circularity Award
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Synthos, OMV sign sustainable raw materials MoU

Synthetic rubber producer Synthos has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with OMV, an Austrian multinational integrated oil, gas, and petrochemicals company. Under the MOU, the two firms will cooperate on the long-term supply of sustainable raw materials, with a focus on sustainable butadiene for synthetic rubber used in tyre manufacturing.

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  1. UK-Canadian team wins Synthos Rubber Circularity Award
  2. Synthos & Kumho Tire jointly developing sustainable rubber
  3. Sustainable S-SBR: Asahi Kasei & Shell sign butadiene agreement
  4. Synthos closing Czech ESBR line due to ‘unpredictable costs in Europe’
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Continental turning race tyres into forklift tyres

Tyre makers often refer to the ‘race to road’ technology transfer when talking about motorsport engagements, but ‘race to loading bay’ is something that perhaps only Continental can claim bragging rights for. The tyre maker is using carbon black from recycled racing tyres in its production of solid tyres.

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  1. Pyrum to supply Continental from expanded pyrolysis plant
  2. Mercedes-Benz using ‘tyre plastic’ in vehicle production
  3. Pyrum & partners gain Materialica award for waste tyre car parts
  4. Fraunhofer Institute research shows pyrolysis benefits
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New Kumho concept tyre uses 80% sustainable materials

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Kumho Tire has developed a tyre made from 80 per cent sustainable materials. The manufacturer said the tyre, which replaces petrochemicals with sustainably sourced and recycled materials, represents a step towards its goal to develop products made entirely of sustainable materials by 2045.

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  1. Retreading: Top Of The Recycling Pile?
  2. Michelin validates Carbios plastic bottle to tyre recycling technology
  3. Derbyshire Firm in Alliance With Global Mining Giant
  4. ‘Hurricane Machine’ increasing Conti’s production sustainability
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Birla Carbon celebrates Cubatão, Brazil plant’s 65th anniversary

Birla Carbon celebrated the 65th anniversary of its Cubatão Plant in November 2023. Located in the state of São Paulo, 12 kilometres from the seaport city of Santos, the Cubatão plant has reportedly played a crucial role in Birla Carbon’s global operations.

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  1. Birla Carbon celebrates Cubatão Plant, Brazil’s 65th anniversary
  2. Birla Carbon operations unified under one name
  3. Birla Carbon North America increases prices
  4. Birla Carbon showcasing carbon black solutions at RubberTech 2023
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Synthos & Kumho Tire jointly developing sustainable rubber

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Kumho Tire and synthetic rubber manufacturer Synthos have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the joint development of sustainable tyre raw materials. Under the MOU, the two companies will conduct a joint research and development project for Neodymium-Butadiene rubber using Bio-Butadiene and expand the use of environmentally friendly synthetic rubber in tyre manufacturing.

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  1. UK-Canadian team wins Synthos Rubber Circularity Award
  2. Synthos closing Czech ESBR line due to ‘unpredictable costs in Europe’
  3. USA capacity increase complements doubling of Kumho’s Vietnam output
  4. Hankook Tire signs Eco-SSBR MoU with Kumho Petrochemical
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Birla Carbon celebrates Cubatão Plant, Brazil’s 65th anniversary

Birla Carbon is celebrating the 65th anniversary of its Cubatão Plant. Located in São Paulo, Brazil, 12km from the seaport city of Santos, the plant is crucial to Birla Carbon’s global operations, contributing to the company’s position as a key player in the carbon black industry in the South American market, the company said.

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  1. Birla increasing carbon black prices
  2. Global carbon black market to grow 5.6% CAGR by 2023
  3. Tyre industry suppliers Nynas, Cabot and Evonik amongst top EcoVadis ratings
  4. Birla Carbon announces EMEA price increase
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