Tyre recycler says microwave process generates high quality carbon black

ERJ staff report (DS)

Mount Laurel, New Jersey -- A US-based developer of microwave systems to process scrap tyres claims that its process generates a high quality carbon black material.

Global Resource Corporation said independent tests undertaken by Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc. (ARDL, Inc) indicate that Global Resource's technology, "is likely to produce a carbon product that has significantly higher value per ton than any other derived end product from the waste tyre industry and at a competitive level of capital investment."

Historically , carbon char produced from scrap tyres by microwaves has been chemically inert on the surface and lacking in structure, making it unsuited for use in high-performance rubber products such as tyres. GRC does not say how its product differs from this.

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Press release from GRC