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Sapphire Supports First Step Charity

Sapphire Energy Recovery and the charity, First Step Trust have joined forces in a unique contract to help the long-term unemployed. First Step Trust has developed the SMaRT (Socially Minded and Responsible Trading) project, which dismantles and recycles unwanted and abandoned vehicles. Sapphire Energy Recovery has entered into a contract with the charity to take up to 100 tonnes of waste tyres a year from the project, free of charge, for processing in their new Manchester depot at Partington.

27th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

NRI to Close Two Recycling Plants

NRI Industries, one of Ontario’s biggest tyre recyclers, is closing two plants, with the loss of 425 jobs. Alan Power, NRI’s chief executive officer, confirmed yesterday that the company will end automotive parts manufacturing in the next three months, but hopes to survive by producing rubber mats, flooring and sound dampeners.

27th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

TIA to Organise Retreading Conference

In February 2007, the American Tire Industry Association (TIA) will hold its “TIA Commercial Tire, Retread & Recycling Conference” for the first time. This event will take place 6-8 February in Tampa (Florida, USA) and will replace the World Tire Expo. This was held in 2005 for the last time. The new Commercial Tire and Retreading Conference will be held in concurrence with the “Transportation Technology Exhibition”. According to TIA president Bob Malerba this new event is not only good for training and educating employees in retreading businesses but also for meeting suppliers and market players. More information is available at www.tireindustry.org. About a year ago the first rumours about the future of the then sluggish World Tire Expo appeared.

27th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Exide Introduces Scrap Battery Scheme

Exide Technologies has introduced a new scheme which goes by the name of SCRAPS (Scrap Collection, Recycling and Protection Scheme) and which is designed to offer a hassle-free collection, disposal and recycling service at an affordable price. The scheme not only aims to ensure the safe disposal of waste batteries, but also safeguards customers against legal action.

16th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Top Industry Award for DME Tyres

DME Tyres has scooped an accolade by winning the Tyre Recovery Association (TRA)’s Audit Excellence Award for 2006. The award, which recognises and rewards the most professional approach to compliance and best practice in waste tyre collection and reprocessing, was presented to DME’s managing director Ken Plaster and commercial director Bill Clarke at the Rubber Industry Dinner held in Solihull last month.

11th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Credential and EMR Sign £400,000 Tyre Deal

Newton Aycliffe-based Credential Environmental and European Metal Recycling Ltd have signed an exclusive agreement for the processing of scrap tyres, in line with this summer’s start of the landfill tyre ban. Under the 12-month contract, car tyres on and off rim will be transferred from EMR sites to Credential Environmental tyre processing centres. An extension clause is included in the agreement, subject to approval by both parties.

11th October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Credential Launches £4 million Recycling Joint Venture

Newton Aycliffe-based Credential Environmental, a waste and tyre reprocessing specialist, has led a joint venture deal with global gas company BOC Gases and Toronto-based FieldTurf Inc, the world’s leading artificial sports surface manufacturer. The new venture, TyreGenics Ltd, will use a cryogenic process to produce large volumes of tyre ‘crumb’ from millions of waste tyres produced by Britain’s cars and commercial vehicles each year. The process involves freezing rubber using liquid nitrogen and shattering the frozen rubber into minute pieces. The first plant is expected to open in South Wales in spring 2007.

3rd October 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyre Recycling Technology Successfully Tested in Wales

A new tyre recycling technology has been successfully tested in North Wales, leading to suggestions a new commercial-scale recycling plant will open next year. Used Tyre Distillation Research Ltd told letsrecycle.com it has opened a fully functioning pilot plant to demonstrate its new processing technology at Ruabon, near Wrexham. According to the report, plans to purchase equipment have already been made, which could scale the pilot plant at up to 17,000 tonnes annual capacity. There are also said to be hopes of developing further plants in the UK and abroad.

29th September 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyrexpo Africa 2006 – Met with Great Enthusiasm

For the first time since the early eighties, South Africa hosted its own dedicated tyre trade event. The three-day exhibition was held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg where over 110 national and international exhibitors took part. According to the organisers, a total of 2738 tyre trade professionals, from 44 countries, attended the show. In addition to those from within South Africa, others came from Botswana, Burundi, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Samoa, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. More international visitors came from Australia, China, Europe, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, U.A.E and the US.

26th September 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Rubber Recycling Companies Call for More Recognition

The head of one of the UK’s leading specialist rubber recycling companies says there should be more recognition for the contribution such firms make to protecting the environment, conserving natural resources, creating jobs and boosting exports. Michael Hopkinson, chairman of Rosehill Polymers of Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, says that dealing with the UK’s huge amount of waste rubber is a growing problem which needs to be addressed urgently at government level. Rosehill Polymers, established nearly 30 years ago, utilises around 3,600 tonnes of recycled tyre rubber annually most of which is converted into products for the rail industry by a system which incorporates Rosehill’s own Flexilon polyurethane binder formulation.

12th September 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Scrap Tyre Co-operation Down Under

In Australia, a recycler named John MacVicar has suggested that a diesel fuel production facility that he is planning to build north of Adelaide could import scrap tyres from New Zealand as raw material. Mr. MacVicar, who heads up AAA Recycling in South Australia, is said to be currently recycling tyres offshore.

5th September 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Bale Producer Says Tyres are “Ideal” Building Material

One of the first houses constructed out of tyres is being built in Nedd, north of Ullapool, Scotland. The project is the brainchild of two green activists, who after seeing tyres compressed into bales used as retaining walls on embankments, decided to ask Inverness-based Northern Tyre Recycling, about the possibility of using the bales for their own homes.

4th September 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Environmentally Friendly Winter Tyres from Colway

“As we reach that time of year to put down your sun-block and reach for the brollies and snow shovels, its also time to think about fitting your vehicle with some winter retread tyres,” according to Colway retreads. The UK’s leading manufacturer retreaded passenger tyres, has an significant range of passenger, van and light truck winter tyres, with over 80 different sizes, using five different tread patterns.

4th September 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

“Retreads Could Solve Wales’ Environmental Problem”

More businesses using retread tyres could help to solve Wales’ environmental problem, according to The Wales Environment Trust. The trust reports that Wales is threatened by over 26,000 tonnes of waste tyres. Despite the widespread use of retreads by airlines and commercial vehicles across the UK, uptake is said to be slow in Wales.

22nd August 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

More Efficient Pyrolysis System Proposed

US recycling company EarthFirst has released details of how its pyrolysis technology can extract more of the valuable raw materials from tyres, using less energy. Unlike traditional pyrolysis, which burns tyres at very high temperatures in the absence of oxygen, EarthFirst’s system heats used tyres in a vacuum releasing the same range of valuable products including: steel, carbon, oil and a high energy gas.

14th August 2006/by Tyrepress Editors