TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Solutions Polymer Reinforcement
Pyrum Innovations AG together with the recycling company REMONDIS have announced the starting signal for planning a Pyrum plant for recycling used tires.
A letter of intent was recently signed for this purpose. The plant will be located on a site owned by Weserport in Bremen, a subsidiary of REMONDIS sister company Rhenus. It will have a recycling capacity of 20,000 tons of old tires per year, from which the raw material carbon black will be recovered.
Using Oil to Produce Mass-balanced Products
Pascal Klein, CEO of Pyrum, “
We are incredibly proud that REMONDIS has chosen our technology and is now taking the step with us to build a factory based on Pyrum technology. This is another important milestone in increasing our recycling capacity to meet the high demand for our end products.”
Klein further continued, “
The new plant will also help to sustainably transform the used tire market and take a further step towards a circular economy. REMONDIS, the leading German recycling company, has chosen our technology. The buyer for the pyrolysis oil produced by the new plant in Bremen will be the chemical company BASF SE, which will use the oil in its production network to produce mass-balanced products. Through the project, we are further expanding the existing trusting collaboration.”
Jürgen F. Ephan, Managing Director of REMONDIS Recycling GmbH & Co. KG, “
It is in the DNA of our company to create and further develop material cycles. We are therefore very pleased about the partnership with Pyrum, in which we are taking on a previously very challenging material stream that to date could only be used thermally. Together we are actively contributing to making our society and economy a little more circular instead of linear. The recovered raw material Carbon Black can be completely reused in the production of new tires. This is the ideal case of the circular economy.”
It is planned that Pyrum will start preparing the approval documents required for construction in the next few weeks, which are to be submitted in the first half of 2024. The investment volume for the new system amounts to approximately EUR 40 million. Pyrum can thus further expand the pipeline for the construction of pyrolysis plants. In addition to the planned own plant in Saarland, five other plants are currently in the planning and approval phase in cooperation with various partners.
Source: Pyrum Innovations AG