Pyrum set to break ground on second German tire recycling plant

Dillingen, Germany – Pyrum Innovation AG is set to break ground on its second end-of-life tire (ELT) pyrolysis plant in Germany, the company has announced.

The move follows receipt of final approval from the local municipal council of Perl-Besch, in the southwestern German state of Saarland.

With the official green light, Pyrum GreenFactory II GmbH can now carry out construction work on the property, said the German tire recycler 21 May.

“Nothing stands in the way of further planning work and the planned groundbreaking in the second half of 2024,“ said Pascal Klein, Pyrum CEO.

Meanwhile, Pyrum said it has also progressed a ramp-up of an expansion at its flagship ELT pyrolysis plant in Dillingen with the first 'hot-run’ of line 3 (TAD 3) at the site.

Following the commissioning of TAD 2 earlier this year, the third reactor was heated up for the first time on 23 May, said a company statement.

The process, it noted, involved heating the new reactor to a temperature of around 650°C for the first time.

The TAD 2 & 3 lines are part of Pyrum’s scaling up plans at its site in Dillingen, with the aim to process 20 kilotonnes per annum of waste tires.

From the commissioning of TAD 2, "we were able to make minor optimisations before the start of TAD 3, which led to a smooth first warm-up of TAD 3,” said Klein. (ERJ report)

Once the preparatory work is completed, Pyrum expects to carry out the “the first warm-up run” with the production of thermolysis oil and recovered carbon black (rCB).

The aim is to ramp up the throughput of TAD 3 to 75 to 80% of the target output within a few commissioning runs, it added.

Within the next six to twelve months, TAD 2 and TAD 3 will then be successively ramped up to full capacity utilisation.

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