Pyrum selects location for second German plant

Dillingen, Germany – Waste tire pyrolysis company Pyrum Innovations (AG) has set up a new subsidiary to support its expansion programme in Germany.

At the start of 2024, Pyrum GreenFactory II GmbH was founded to operate the company’s second planned end-of-life tire (ELT) recycling factory in Saarland, western Germany.

Pyrum intends to build the plant, modelled on its existing facility in Dillingen, Saarland, in Perl-Besch on the Moselle river by the end of 2025, said a Pyrum statement 18 Jan.

With the capacity to process 20 kilotonnes per annum (ktpa) of ELTs, the unit is expected to double Pyrum’s processing capabilities.

The German-based recycler said plant components, “with notoriously long delivery times”, will be ordered in the first quarter of 2024.

Pyrum announced its plans to build a second German facility in February last year, having selected Homburg, Saarland, as its location.

However, while preparing the authorisation documents, the company said it realised that water-protection requirements for the site would lead to “considerable additional investment”.

Due to the extra costs, Pyrum announced in November that it was changing the location to  “an alternative, logistically ideally located site”. (ERJ report)

Elsewhere, Pyrum is carrying out final preparations to start up a new production line (TAD 2) at its Dillingen site to ramp up ELT processing at the facility.

The “first long-term operation” of the new recycling line was scheduled for 18 Jan, after heating up the reactor a day before.

The line, Pyrum said, will run for up to three weeks continuously under actual industrial-scale conditions.

If the trial is successful, the company will “switch directly to permanent operation of the line... with ongoing performance optimisation."

Another new line, TAD3, is also expected to enter the final phase of 'warm' ramp-up, by the end of March.

Once fully operational, the two new lines will bring the ELT processing capacity at Dillingen to 20ktpa.