Nano-technology for tyre recycling

Archiv – Only 33% of the tyres reaching the end of their useful lives in the EU-27 are being recycled into recovered materials, it was reported at this year�s European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA) conference in Brussels, Belgium. EU | Only 33% of the tyres reaching the end of their useful lives in the EU-27 are being recycled into recovered materials, it was reported at this year�s European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA) conference in Brussels, Belgium.
Meanwhile, the EU�s scientific team has selected CBp Carbon Industries Inc. – a scrap tyre recycling technology firm headquartered in Bratislava, the Slovak Republic – as the provider of the �best-available technology� to meet its EU Recycle Tyre project objectives. Using patented CBp Carbon nanocarbon production technology, crude pyro-carbon has been refined and upgraded into functional grades of reinforcing black fillers (CBpEX, CBpES and CBpEU) which can be substituted and blended with the N-500, N-600, N- 700 and N-900 series of standard commercial carbon black grades.
According to a recent report, the global carbon black market is forecast to grow 4% per annum through 2008 to 9.6 million tonnes.
An additional environmental benefit is that every CBp Carbon plant can reduce or conserve approximately 40 000 tonnes of the carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions released to atmosphere by current methods of burning oil or gas feedstocks for production of equivalent amounts of commercial carbon black.
The complete CBp Carbon Industries Inc. presentation given in Brussels can be viewed at: