Malaysian rubber recycler expands into USA

Archiv – Rubber recycling company Green Rubber Global (GRG), which is based in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, is building a recycling plant near Gallup in New Mexico, USA. Claiming to have invented the world’s first commercially-viable, waste-free method of recycling tyres, GRG is planning to locate its headquarters in the state capital of Albuquerque.Malaysia / USA | Rubber recycling company Green Rubber Global (GRG), which is based in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, is building a recycling plant near Gallup in New Mexico, USA. Claiming to have invented the world’s first commercially-viable, waste-free method of recycling tyres, GRG is planning to locate its headquarters in the state capital of Albuquerque.
Part of Malaysia’s Petra Group, GRG expects to employ up to 150 people once the New Mexico facility is operational by mid-2008; it then plans to build more plants in the USA, Mexico and Asia. The new plant will use Petra Group’s patented DeLink chemical process which devulcanises old tyres and turns them into a usable rubber which is cheaper than virgin material.
According to Petra’s founder Vinod Sekhar, the DeLink process created by his father, B. C. Sekhar, creates no waste or emissions. B. C. Sekhar was a chemist who headed up several rubber research institutes as Malaysia became one of the world’s largest rubber producers.
GRG enjoys backing from Hollywood as US actor and movie director Mel Gibson is a major stakeholder.
Green Rubber plans to list on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in six months, Malasian media reports say. The company also announced plans to enter into a joint venture with US-based Apache Mills to manufacture and sell rubber compound from recycled waste tyres.