Scottish company plans bio-reactor to de-vulcanise tyres

ERJ staff report (DS)

Edinburgh, Scotland -- Recyclatech Group --a spin off from Edinburgh's Napier Univesity -- has developed a micro-organism which can selectively eat the sulphur atoms out of a vulcanised rubber soup.

The company is planning its own project in Scotland and has sold a licence to a Spanish company called Biotyre. Biotyre plans to set up a £500 000 pilot plant in Spain, with a full-scale plant scheduled for subsequent years.

The deal covers 14 countries. Biotyre is expected to negotiate non-exclusive sub-licences for the use of Recyclatech's intellectual property. It initially aims to focus on Spain, Mexico and Brazil. A second franchise was being negotiated with another company to take the technology to Asia and the Middle East.

The process takes place at around 26 degrees C in a soup made up of tyre crumb and the specialised bacteria.

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