Carbolytic Materials plant up and running

ERJ staff report (DS)

Maryville Missouri -- One year after Advantage Capital Partners' investment in Carbolytic Materials Company(CMC), the carbon black alternative manufacturing facility is operational and seeing its products getting accepted.

CMC claims to be the first company to successfully recover a carbon black alternative suitable for commercial use from scrap tyres. The new Maryville facility includes production space, allowing CMC to consume more than 15,000 tons of used tyres annually to create ApexCM, claimed to be a lower cost carbon black replacement material.

CMC said the carbon black alternative can be used for hoses, gaskets, belts, roofing materials, plastic piping and more. Each ton produced represents 380 recycled tyres, 760 gallons of oil saved and 3,800 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions kept out of the atmosphere.

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Press release from CMC