Yet another rubber devulcanisation company pops up

ERJ staff report (DS)

Houston, Texas -- Another process which claims to devulcanise rubber has emerged. Arizona-based SNRG Corp. said it has entered into an exclusive North American technology agreement with Vega Invest AG d/b/a Enviropark Global AG for advanced rubber devulcanization technologies.

The agreement grants the Company all North American rights to Vega's rubber devulcanization technologies. SNRG will construct two production lines, each capable of producing 40 million pounds of devulcanized rubber compound per year, based around its existong crumbing operations. SNRG said the devulcanized rubber has excellent properties and can be used as a substitute for virgin materials in the manufacture of numerous rubber products.

According to the Chief Executive Officer of SNRG Corp., D. Elroy Fimrite, "The rubber recycling industry has had significant problems creating viable businesses and numerous companies have failed, leaving behind piles of tires to be cleaned up. Without devulcanization the rubber particles, no matter how fine you chop them, have the same chemical structure as the original vulcanized tire or other rubber product and will not chemically bond into a new compound for the manufacturing of a new product. With our technology we can move the rubber from the economic wasteland of conventional rubber recycling into the massive and economically viable conventional rubber applications and product markets."

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Press release from SNRG