ERJ Trends 2024: End-of-life tire pyrolysis

Announced

Company

Location

Project

17/12

Pyrum 

Perl-Besch, Saarland, Germany

Expects to break ground on its second end-of-life tire (ELT) pyrolysis plant in Germany in the spring next year as it has progressed approval procedures for the facility.

12/11

Hankook Tire

Seoul 

Started the mass production of tires using three types of ISCC+ certified carbon black products derived from tire waste. The materials were produced using refined tire pyrolysis oil (TPO)

31/10

Bolder Industries

Antwerp, Belgium

Bolder project NextGen thermal tire re-use was selected alongside a raft of other sustainability-related candidates to receive grants under a €4.8-billion EU fund to help put “cutting-edge clean technologies into action across Europe”

10/10

Pyrum

Dillingen/Saar, Germany

Obtains ‘unlimited delivery approval’ from Continental AG for the supply of recovered carbon black (rCB) from its recently ramped up expansion

10/10

Pyrum

Dillingen/Saar, Germany

Completed the first trial run at 100% capacity at a new recycling line at its facility in

05/09

Marubeni Corp.

Thailand

Plans to develop a business model for tire recycling supply chains in Japan, SE Asia and elsewhere and made an undisclosed investment in Thai ELT pyrolysis company 'Green Rubber Energy' to produce rCB and tire pyrolysis oil

04/09

Scanship AS/Murfitts

Lakenheath, Suffolk, UK

Sign FEED for design and construction of a "large-scale" pyrolysis plant to be operational in 2026.

03/09

Bridgestone EMEA, Grupo BB&G, Versalis 

Multiple European sites involved

Working together on research and technical solutions for the ‘large-scale’ use of TPO in the production of tire rubbers.

20/08

Scandinavian Environment Systems (Enviro)

Uddevalla, Sweden

Increases stake in its ELT pyrolysis joint venture with Antin Infrastructure, which is also back by Michelin

20/08

Neste

Porvoo, Finland

Enhances logistics infrastructure at its Porvoo refinery to support expansion of chemical recycling operations for liquified waste, including those derived from ELTs

30/07

Continental AG/Pyrum

Hanover, Germany

Signed long-term purchase agreement for supply of rCB from end-of-life tires

16/07

Enviro

Uddevalla, Sweden

Construction project is progressing: building has now had the first roof trusses installed

08/07

Enviro

Åsensbruk, Sweden

Received an order for deliveries of 500 tons of recovered pyrolysis oil from a leading European oil player

03/07

Wastefront AS

Sunderland, UK

Supply waste tire-based aviation fuel from €120m plant, designed to process 10m ELTs/year and due for start-up by 2026

18/06

LD Carbon

Gimcheon, South Korea

Closed Toyota-led €26m funding round for scale-up of current 7ktpa rCB plant and secured a 10-year supply agreement with SK Incheon Petrochemicals for the facility's TPO

17/06

Klean Industries Inc.

New Delhi, India

Signed letter of intent to supply equipment and patented technologies to an ELT recycling project with multiple locations in India and Malaysia. Combined, the sites will have capacity to process 50 kilotonnes per annum (ktpa) of pyrolysis char

12/06

Circtec

Delfzijl, The Netherlands

Acquired Granuband BV, a Dutch ELT collection and recycling company, to secure feedstock for ongoing pyrolysis project in Delfzijl

11/06

Orion SA

Jaslo, Poland

Installing multiple tire pyrolysis oil (TPO) tanks at plant / as part of its strategy to produce circular carbon blacks

21/05

Pyrum Innovation AG

Dillingen, Germany

Progressed a ramp-up of an expansion at its flagship ELT pyrolysis plant with the first 'hot-run’ of line 3 (TAD 3) for planned scale-up to process 20ktpa of ELTs

21/05

Circtec

Delfzijl, The Netherlands

Secured funding of €150m for construction of “Europe’s largest” ELT pyrolysis plant . Also, broke ground 17 May on €285m, 200ktpa project with key investors including BP and Birla Carbon

13/05

Orion SA

Investing in Toulouse, France-based ELT recycler Alpha Carbone to help scale up its €10m tire pyrolysis operation to a scrap tire input capacity of 16ktpa

13/05

Orion SA

Signed long-term supply agreement with Alpha Carbone for TPO for use in manufacture of “circular carbon black” for tire and rubber goods customers

10/05

Continental Carbon, Sheico

Phenix City, Alabama

Plans to establish major rCB plant slated to start up in 2026 / Capacity for 30ktpa rCB, 35ktpa TPO, 2.3ktpa steel wire

19/04

Enviro

Uddevalla, Sweden

Swedish Tyre Recycling has entered into an agreement to deliver raw materials for tires to the plant currently being built

08/03

Pyrum Innovations AG

Billingsfors, Sweden

Partnership deal with GreenTech Recycling Tires AB for the construction of 20ktpa ELT recycling plant, slated for start up in 2027 

07/03

Continental Carbon, Maxxis

Produce sustainable tires incorporating rCB

22/02

Reserve, Louisiana

L4T Group

Investing €42 million to establish a facility on a plot of land spanning 10 acres at the Port of South Louisiana to convert ELTs into commodities such as advanced biofuel feedstock, recovered carbon black and scrap steel

15/02

Marubeni Corp. /

Munich, Germany

To invest an undisclosed amount to acquire shares of Munich-based startup RCB Nanotechnologies which is constructing a plant to purify rCB from ELT pyrolysis plants - via patent-pending Fraunhofer IBP hydrothermal treatment process

08/02

Nokian Tyres

rCB supply deal with Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro). Deliveries for Nokian Tyres slated to begin in 2026