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Recyclatech Researches Using Microbiology in Tyre Devulcanisation

The Recycling Commercialisation Centre has awarded funding to Scottish tyre recycling company, Recyclatech, to further develop a technique designed to make rubber easily bondable with natural or synthetic rubber. According to a Plastics & Rubber Weekly report, the rubber can then be reused in car tyres and products such as basic underlay for carpets, soundproofing materials for apartments and Wellington boots. Furthermore, Recyclatech’s process is said to be ideal for disposing of waste tyres. In this process worn out tyres are crumbed into small particles, which are then put through the microbiological technique.

24th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Peter Gaster Named as New TIF Chairman

Peter Gaster has been appointed chairman of the Tyre Industry Federation (TIF), following the federation’s AGM in London last week. Gaster is also current chairman of the National Tyre Distributors Association (NTDA) and has represented the NTDA on the TIF Board since it joined the organisation three years ago.

“It is a great honour for me to take on this pivotal role in the UK tyre industry and I look forward to representing the varied interests of the industry as TIF’s chairman. NTDA continues to be totally supportive of the objectives of the TIF and I will ensure that TIF’s key role, as a forum to bring together the various sectors of our industry in the interests of better communication and understanding, continues to be the cornerstone of the organisation,” Peter Gaster commented.

17th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Man on Trial After Illegally-Stored Tyres Burn

A US man who supervised the illegal storage of 40,000 tyres has gone on trial following a fire that burned for over 24 hours and took millions of gallons of water to put out in May 2006. Rick Handley of Alabama is answering to the prosecution, which argues that the tyres were stored illegally for a company called US Tire Recovery.

The organisation bought used tyres in bulk, separating those that could be resold and stacking others in the warehouse facility. Handley had been ordered to stop this practice of stockpiling in November 2005, while he never applied for the proper permit required by the Solid Waste Management Act.

15th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Bandag Retreads OE on 10,000 DSV Road A/S Trailers

Operator of one of the largest independent trailer fleets in Europe, DSV Road A/S has chosen to fit Bandag retreads as Original Equipment to all of its trailers – a deal that sees 60,000 retreads fitted on trailers delivered to the transporter by German company Bernard Krone GmbH. The job of tyre management for the operation – including the full stock of replacement tyres – has been outsourced to Bandag subsidiary Eurofleet.

8th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Granutech-Saturn Has Best Ever Show

Representatives from Granutech-Saturn Systems report they experienced the highest level of traffic ever at their booth at the Reifen show in Essen, Germany, this past May. According to Mike Hinsey, Granutech’s International Vice President, the benefits from that event continue to make themselves evident.

7th July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyre Recycler Retains World Toe Wrestling Title

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Tyre recycling manager Paul Beech from Tyre Recycle 2000 Ltd – a digitally formidable man also known as the ‘Toeminator’ – has secured his fourth successive world toe wrestling championship win. The 38-year old from Burton-on-Trent retained his crown after he fought off the ‘Itonian Stallion’ in the final thrilling round of the evening-long event, a spectacle witnessed by a crowd of about 200.

3rd July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Reifen 2008: TSI/SSG Reports Busy Show

American tyre service and recycling machinery manufacturers TSI/SSG (Tire Service Equipment and Saf-tee Siping & Grooving) has reported a busy and successful showing in all three key business segments at this year’s Reifen Exhibition. The company divides its output into siping machines, small tyre service machines (like manual tyre changers and bead seaters) and recycling machines (tyre cutters and wheel crushers).

Since 1998, when TSI/SSG first exhibited at Reifen, the company has seen a large increase in both interest and actual orders in the recycling portion of the business. Export Manager Arvid Vaaten believes that “more and more markets are getting ready to seriously deal with the ever increasing scrap tire problem.”

3rd July 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Interest in Tyre Recycling Increasing, says Eldan

While the Reifen Essen show featured brand new tyres by the truckload, a company more interested in their end of life counterparts was Eldan Recycling. Company product manager Bjørn Larsen, speaking with T&A, said that during the show Eldan had received many visits and enquiries from people involved in the growing recycling industry. “We have received interest from Eastern European countries, such as Russia, Romania and Latvia. The market is going east. Queries have also come from customers in Turkey, and representation from Asia, from potential customers seeking turnkey systems.”

Eldan can supply tyre industry recyclers with everything from individual pieces of equipment, such as choppers, raspers, separators and granulators through to complete turnkey outfits. All equipment is built by the company in its home country of Denmark. Individual items are modular in design to facilitate a painless addition of more units further down the track should the need arise. The popularity of Eldan products is evident from the number of large outfits it counts as customers, such as German automotive parts giant ATU, who operates six tyre recycling plants with a total annual capacity of 120,000 tonnes.

30th June 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

HiQ Offers 5% Online Discount to BTCC Fans

HiQ is offering British Touring Car Championship fans a 5 per cent discount for BTCC fans that buy and book their tyres online at www.hiqonline.co.uk. The savings are in addition to the existing offers that always apply whenever online purchases are made.

HiQ’s commercial manager Farrell Dolan said: “Not only are our online prices highly competitive, we’re also offering an additional five per cent off to the fans of the BTCC, who turn up in their thousands at every race weekend. Our sponsorship of the BTCC is in its first year of a three year deal, and we have all been amazed by the fans’ dedication and passion so far.

26th June 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone US Retail Outlets Now Hybrid-Ready

Bridgestone’s BFS Retail & Commercial Operations, LLC (BFRC), owner and operator of the world’s largest number of automotive retail outlets, has announced that selected Firestone Complete Auto Care, Tires Plus, ExpertTire and Wheel Works centres in the US are now equipped for the servicing of hybrid vehicles.

“Almost 40 per cent of our stores are now approved to service hybrids,” said Darrell Rowe, BFRC manager of Education & Development. “We’re committed to providing our store teammates with the most current training and information available to ensure that our customers have a positive experience every time they visit one of our locations. In order to service hybrid vehicles, a store must complete a comprehensive training programme.”

24th June 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Abu Dhabi Looking for Tyre Recycling Contractor

Majid Al Mansouri, the secretary-general of the Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi (EAD) and chairman of the Higher Committee for Waste Management in the emirate, has announced that Abu Dhabi is looking for a suitable contractor to “recycle used tyres and create useful products such as mats to be used as flooring at playgrounds.” Speaking to Gulf News, Majid Al Mansouri said companies have been dumping tyres in the desert or illegal landfills because of the absence of an organised waste disposal system. According to local news sources there are over 25 million used tyres in Abu Dhabi.

18th June 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

iVoice Technology Talks Tyre Trash

The US-based company iVoice Technology has announced its filing of a patent application on a rubbish bin made entirely from recycled tyre crumb rubber. The application supports the organisation’s stated aim for its wholly-owned subsidiary B Green Innovations Inc of becoming “a ‘green’ technology company, focused on acquiring and identifying promising
technologies that address environmental issues.”

The company’s interest in recycling tyres peaked when the Environmental Protection Agency identified worn out tyres as a major environmental risk, a conclusion supported by the Rubber Manufacturers Association’s 2003 estimate that there were 275 million stockpiled tyres in the USA and that 290 million were added each year.

16th June 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Company Fined £63,000 for Illegally Keeping Waste Tyres

On 5 June 2006, Eurowaste Recycling Plc was convicted and sentenced in absence at Rugby Magistrates’ Court for keeping waste tyres without the correct documentation, failing to supply waste transfer notes and failing to remove waste. The charges were brought by the Environment Agency under the Environmental Protection Act. Eurowaste Recycling Plc was fined £63,000, ordered to pay costs of £7890.85 and compensation of £3516.00 for unpaid licence fees.

Michael Robinson, representing the Environment Agency, told the court that in the summer of 2006, Eurowaste Recycling Plc entered into an agreement with Fraser Evans and Sons Ltd for shredded tyres to be supplied to Eurowaste Recycling Plc’s site at Long Marston Airfield in Stratford-upon-Avon. Environment Agency officers visited the site in September 2006 and October 2006 and saw that significant amounts of waste in the form of shredded tyres had been deposited. Further investigation revealed that over 1300 tonnes of shredded tyres had been deposited at the site from June 2006 to September 2006.

12th June 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Forklifts ‘Fill’ the Benefits of Zeus Technology

Having been working on development for some time, Zeus Tyre Filling Solutions has launched a new additional range of high performance tyre filling compounds branded TRIOfill, based on a unique “3-Part (PUR) Based – Chemicals Technology.”

Supplementing its well known “PolyFill – range, TRIOfill represents a new and more advanced tyre filling specification, that is designed to deliver a cleaner, greener product and a reduced carbon footprint. However, it is also said to considerably improve tyre fill’s physical properties, when compared with the more traditional (pure liquid) compounds.

According to Zeus TRIOfill offers unique advantages in terms of physical strength and its unique component characteristics are said to offer a much wider range of benefits to both FLT users and OEMs, particularly in terms of the plant hire companies.

Here, says Zeus, the new tyre filling formulation, not only delivers greater flexibility of tyre use and applications, but it also raises overall FLT tyre performance. One example of this is the increase in operational safety levels, particularly when operating at their maximum lift heights, because of the extra stability the tyre fill provides. In addition Zeus representatives told T&A that other key benefits of reduced costs include: increased operational mobility, and putting a stop to all pneumatic blow outs, punctures and tyre pressure losses.

Furthermore, TRIOfill comes with a new re-engineered “Fully Integrated – Pumping & Mixing Unit” that is not only the first pumping system to be electrically driven, but is designed to be much faster, cleaner, greener and more economic, than competing PU pumping systems.

“This unit, together with the innovative benefits of TRIOfill’s specification, now offers many original equipment manufacturers, an ideal, cost effective, safe and green tyre filling solution, in their considerations for driving out cost, improving supply line efficiencies and updating their own operational procedures, especially when linked to Zeus’s unique waste tyre filling materials collection & recycling service,” Zeus’ promotional literature explains.

5th June 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

TIA Partners with US Commercial Service, TRIB for Recaufair

The Tire Industry Association (TIA) is to exhibit alongside the US Commercial Service and the Tire Retread Information Bureau (TRIB) and the at the 2008 Recaufair Tire Show, which will be held 5-8 May in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Germano Julio Badi will represent TIA and Anne Evans, director of the Middletown Export Assistance Center, will be representing the US Commercial Service. Members of TIA, TRIB and other US companies interested in growing their export activities are invited to stop by the TIA stand. Acknowledged as the largest tire show in Latin America, the event’s organizers are anticipating 10,500 domestic and international visitors. The retreading, recycling, commercial and service sectors are the focus, and the show will also feature lectures on markets, technology, environment and social responsibility.

8th May 2008/by Tyrepress Editors