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North American Retreading Conference Grows in 2008

According to statistics released by TRIB, approximately 18.6 million retreaded tyres were sold in the North America region (US, Canada & Mexico) in 2006, generating sales exceeding US$3 billion. Other sources indicate that the US retreading market alone generated revenues of $1.25 billion in 2006, growing to $1.5 billion the following year. The majority of these were medium truck tyres, and in this market nearly half of all replacement truck tyres fitted to vehicles are now retreads. To keep abreast of developments in this lucrative industry – 2007 gross profit in the US retreading market was estimated at 13 per cent of sales – a number of those associated with the 900 or so retreading facilities operating in North America attended this year’s Commercial Tire, Retread & Recycling Conference (CTRRC) in Florida between February 5 and 8.

14th February 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Snap-on Tools Updates Franchisee Vans

Snap-on Tools has unveiled a new design for its 420 UK Franchisee vans. According to the company, the update is aimed at giving its trade customers “a better shopping experience.” Terry Barcham, Managing Director of Snap-on, approached several contract hire and leasing specialists to come up with a new design concept for the very successful Snap-on Franchisee vans which would transform them into hi-tech sales outlets. The winning proposal came from Pendragon Contracts, part of Pendragon plc, the largest multi-franchise motor group in Europe.

14th February 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin to Open Recycling Plant at Toul Factory Site

Michelin, together with French corporation Suez, intends to establish a recycling facility at the premises of its former factory in Toul in order to fulfil its pledge to maintain activity at the site. Financial details of the project have not as yet been made public.

The closure of the Toul factory in France was announced at the start of October 2007, with an inability to remain competitive cited as the main factor driving closure of the PCR manufacturing plant. A total of about 830 people were employed at the Toul plant, and when making its announcement Michelin stated that the company would provide “all the support necessary to help them find a new job rapidly or start a professional project.”

13th February 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

RMA Sees Truck Tyre Safety Regulations Coming

The US Rubber Manufacturers Association expects the NHTSA to outline its new tyre safety regulations covering medium/heavy truck tyres later this year, according to Dan Zielinski, vice president of communications, who made a presentation during last week’s TIA Commercial Tire, Retread & Recycling Conference. The conference was held in conjunction with ATA’s TMC Show in Orlando.

Zielinski said NHTSA intends to update FMVSS 119, but retreaded truck tyres are not expected to be part of that update. Retreads, instead, may be dealt with separately in the future. (Tire Review/Akron)

12th February 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

CM Drawing Upon Decades of Experience

Columbus McKinnon, a company that manufactures a broad line of material handling products for use in a host of industries, has been building shredders specifically designed to meet the requirements of the tyre recycling industry since 1982. All aspects of the recycling processed can be accommodated by Columbus McKinnon produced machinery, from pre-shredding oversized tyres through to the delivery of wire-free crumb rubber – and the company proudly claims the equipment it produces has helped it become a recognised leader for the highest production, best chip quality, and lowest operating costs.

8th February 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Next Generation Recycling

Highly regarded turnkey project supplier Van Aarsen International can rely upon almost 60 years of experience when designing machines for the tyre recycling industry. The Netherlands based company has built-up a broad knowledge and wide experience in every area of various process industries, and over the decades has developed into one of the world’s leading companies in process technologies.

Van Aarsen machines are produced in the Netherlands, and possess the reliability and level of quality that has given equipment sourced from this part of the world such a strong reputation. The company states its main strength as the ability to keep the entire technical process in mind when developing machinery, whilst producing designs that can then be adapted to every client-specific situation. As Van Aarsen puts it, knowledge and experienced is combined in an innovative manner of thinking and working.

8th February 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

MMH Supplying Eldan Equipment at Home and Abroad

West Sussex based marketer and distributor of recycling equipment, MMH Recycling Systems, reports it is continuing to supply top quality equipment for the tyre recycling industry through its partnership with Danish manufacturer Eldan Recycling A/S. During 2007 MMH supplied new equipment to four recycling facilities, and in the coming few months several more plants, currently under production, will be delivered to UK customers.

The company provides a complete service to its customers, which can include designing, building and commissioning everything from a single machine to a complete, highly automated, tyre recycling plant. Equipment supplied by MMH Recycling Systems and used by many successful tyre recyclers employs a simple, reliable and cost effective method of shredding & granulating tyres and separating the resultant rubber, steel and fibres.

7th February 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

CBp Carbon Acquires Global Ownership of Green Carbon Technology

The largest investor in recycled carbon black producer CBp Carbon Industries Inc. (CBp) has added a further US$20 million to its initial investment. This action comes at a time when the company is scaling up its development plans in Europe and setting up operations in North America and the Asia Pacific region. Capacity at the CBp facility in Hungary is to be more than trebled – from 3,000 to 10,000 tonnes, and the company reports that the roll out of a number of new plants, each with a capacity in the vicinity of 30,000 tonnes, is in progress.

7th February 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Magnum Signs 5-Year Recycling Deal

Recycling and waste management solutions provider Magnum D’Or Resources, Inc. (Magnum) has announced the signing and closing of a five-year contract, valued at US$12.5 million a year, with US supplier of outdoor and landscape products National Sales & Supply (NSS) for rubber nuggets, effective immediately. Magnum, under this new agreement, will sell and supply NSS with rubber nuggets in addition to its current contract for rubber buffings. Magnum will use its patented scrap tyre recycling technology to produce this new product.

7th February 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Retail Fly-Tipping Costs £2 million a Year

Under the banner of “Educating the consumer,” the second annual Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) annual forum, which took place at the end of January covered topics including “Balancing Capacity with Demand,” “Recycling Comes at a Cost,” and “The production and use of tyre derived materials,” but once again the most headline-grabbing news was on the subject of retail fly-tipping.

Large tyre retail operations are paying for the disposal of 10-15 per cent more tyres than they sell, according to the latest information. Group Tyre commercial operations director, Karl Naylor, detailed some of the findings of the Tyre Industry Federation (TIF) fly-tipping panel he has recently been working with. 12 months after Kwik-Fit spoke of how tyres dumped on its premises cost £250,000 it appears that the problems costs the wider retail industry approximately £2 million each year. And what's more, the problem appears to be a growing concern.

31st January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Big and Hungry

The lab-coated boffins at Jurassic Park may have produced one on the big screen, but it is not every day that one gets the opportunity to deal with a real Tyrannosaurus. But Cape Machinery International did so, and magnificently, in mid-2007 when they brought a fine specimen from Finland and delivered it to Credential Automotive. Okay, so the Tyrannosaurus we’re talking about here may not be a predatory prehistoric carnivore – this particular specimen is sustained by steady diet of tyres – but it is nevertheless impressive.

“It’s a unique machine,” comments Cape Machinery’s managing director David Hennessey. Manufactured in Rauma, Finland by materials handling systems specialists BMH Enviro, the Tyrannosaurus is a machine whose design has strongly drawn upon the experiences of equipment operators. “The story behind it,” he elaborates, “is that the company took current machine designs, looked at what was good and what was bad, and addressed feedback they had received from operators.” The result was a 90 tonne behemoth that attracted the attention of the UK’s largest tyre recycler.

30th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

From Tyres to Playgrounds With Charles Lawrence

Towards the end of last year Michelin signed a deal with Newark based recycling firm Charles Lawrence International, guaranteeing that, each year, a minimum of 6,000 tonnes of its truck tyres will be used to make children’s play and sports surfaces. Each week some 200 tonnes of material are to be shipped from Michelin in Dundee and Ballymena to the Nottinghamshire recycler.

The deal is a mutually beneficial one, as Charles Lawrence International managing director Roger Hicks explains: “The formal agreement to take 6,000 tonnes of Michelin tyres per year comes after extensive trialling and a lot of discussion. We needed to be sure we could take a consistent amount of tyres each week so that we had a secure supply of materials and so Michelin could find other uses for the old tyres we can’t use – which I know they have done. The figure is a minimum standard and we would realistically expect to be taking at least 10,000 tonnes per year.”

29th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

The Other Recycling…

In January the Tyre Recovery Association announced that Devon based retreading specialist Bandvulc had signed on as its latest member. The company’s entry into the TRA marks the first occasion in which a company specialising in retreading has held membership in the recycling and waste tyre organisation. And so, when looking at the latest TRA membership list and noting the retreader amongst a host of members engaged in producing tyre crumb for various end uses, one may be tempted to ask why a retreader has joined a recycling organisation – but perhaps a more pertinent question would be this: despite the presence of 29 precure and 15 mould cure retreaders in the UK market, why doesn’t tyre retreading more readily spring to mind when the issue of tyre recycling is mentioned?

29th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Cementing a Commitment to Recycling

From time to time words are spoken about the role tyre manufacturers and wholesalers do – or should – play in the full life cycle of the products they sell. The accepted consensus is for a greater level of responsibility, a role most parties have readily accepted. Michelin, the world’s second largest tyre manufacturer, was one of the first companies off the mark in the UK in terms of meeting this obligation, and its joint venture facility for the processing of end of life tyres – Sapphire Energy Recovery – is now in its eighth year of operation.

28th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

WRAP Seeks New eQuip Lessors

WRAP is looking for new lessors to join its successful eQuip Residual Value Guarantee scheme, which in its four years of operation has benefited a number of tyre recyclers. There are currently ten finance providers signed up to the scheme and WRAP now wants to open the panel to new lessors as the recycling sector continues to grow.

Ian Wardle, Head of Business Support at WRAP, says: “eQuip has already made a significant contribution towards meeting UK recycling targets. To date, 328 assets have been guaranteed through eQuip, at a value in excess of £19 million. These assets have already diverted three million tonnes of waste from landfill and the demand for this type of activity is going to grow rapidly in the next few years. We need other lessors to join the existing panel so that we can help the recycling sector to keep pace with this demand.”

25th January 2008/by Tyrepress Editors