Klean expands recovered carbon black processing footprint in Asia

New Delhi, India – Canadian end-of-life tire (ELT) tire pyrolysis company Klean Industries Inc. has signed a non-binding letter of intent to supply equipment and patented technologies to an ELT recycling project with multiple locations in India and Malaysia.

The equipment will be used to upgrade char derived from the thermal processing of ELTs into recovered carbon black (rCB), said Klean in a statement 17 June.

The project includes four new plants, two of which will be located in India and two in Malaysia, with the combined capacity to process 50 kilotonnes per annum (ktpa) of pyrolysis char.

The carbon upgrading system is claimed to enable the conversion of low-value tire char into rCB which can replace virgin carbon black by volumes of 10% to 100% depending on the application.

The new projects further expand Klean’s activities in Asia, where the KleanTeam has been actively developing projects for the past two decades.

According to Klean, Asia produces an estimated one billion ELTs per year, and many countries in the region are adopting stricter policies toward environmentally sustainable methods of processing tires.

Having developed “long-term arrangements throughout the global supply chain,” Klean said it is able to provide services and technologies “at less than 50% of the capital costs and 1/4 of the manufacturing time.”

“With more countries and corporations continuing their push for industrial circularity...  the market for recovered carbon materials is becoming global,” the company added.