Recovered Carbon Black Europe 2026 will take place in Amsterdam from 3–5 November, bringing together senior leaders and innovators from across the carbon black value chain to discuss the latest market developments, technical challenges and regulatory updates shaping the rCB industry
The two-day conference programme opens with a keynote from Continental and Pyrum Innovations, tracing the pair’s collaboration on rCB from early-stage development through to first industrial tyre applications. Jorge Almeida, Head of Sustainability at Continental, and Pyrum CEO Pascal Klein will discuss the challenges of industrialisation, the role of validation and scale-up, and why cross-industry collaboration is proving essential to making tyre circularity commercially viable.
The business-focused sessions dig into what’s holding rCB back from wider adoption. Orion Engineered Carbons’ Celso Magri will talk about “Unlocking Tyre Circularity: Why Market Pull Matters,” while KBR’s Aashish Gaurav and Akash Desai will address the investment side, with a keynote called “Bankability in tyre pyrolysis: how engineering and project execution drive investment confidence.”
Feedstock quality is a recurring theme across the programme. Imperial College London’s Dr Geoff Fowler will examine how variability in end-of-life tyres affects rCB quality, while REGOM’s Bertrand Thoumsin will present on advanced tyre sorting and identification technologies designed to reduce feedstock heterogeneity and improve process consistency.
Day two of Recovered Carbon Black Europe moves deeper into technical territory, covering feedstock supply chains, rCB characterisation and analysis, production and upgrading processes, and in-rubber performance, with contributions from companies including Genan, TEC, Hankook, Fraunhofer Institute, femtoG, Cabot, Continental Reifen Deutschland and Standard Profil, closing with reflections from Continental and Wolfersdorff Consulting.
Day One Agenda
- Keynote: From Day Zero to Scale: The Continental – Pyrum Circular Journey — Jorge Almeida, Continental Tires; Pascal Klein, Pyrum
- Keynote: Circular by Design: The Bolder – Pirelli Journey — Speaker tbc, Pirelli; Tony Wibbeler, Bolder
- Carbon Black Global Outlook 2026 — Paul Ita, Notch Consulting
- Unlocking Tyre Circularity: Why Market Pull Matters — Celso Magri, Orion Engineered Carbons
- Unlocking Sustainable Solutions for Future-Ready Commercial Growth — Dr Joe Hallett, Birla Carbon
- Bankability in Tyre Pyrolysis: How Engineering and Project Execution Drive Investment Confidence — Aashish Gaurav & Akash Desai, KBR
- Tire Pyrolysis Oil Update — Shane Perl, KERA Energy AG and ALPEN Group
- How TPO Suppliers Can Escape Commodity Pricing: From Volume to Value — Robert Weibold, Weibold Consulting
- Keynote: The EU Chemical Industry Action Plan — Laia Perez Simbor, DG GROW, European Commission
- CEO Panel: Industrialisation and Scale Up — Robert Harper, Circtec; Viktor Varadi, NE-TECH; Tony Wibbeler, Bolder
Day Two Agenda
- Advanced Tyre Sorting and Feedstock Control to Improve rCB Quality — Bertrand Thoumsin, Regom
- Setting Up a Feedstock Supply Chain: Commercial Considerations from a Tyre Recycler — Thomas Ballegaard, Genan Holding
- End of Life Tyres Are Not All the Same – What Does This Mean for Producing Quality Recovered Carbon Black? — Dr Geoff Fowler, Imperial College London
- Evaluation in Rubber Compounds of Two Standard Grades of Demineralised Recovered Carbon Black — Gianmarco Di Rienzo, TEC; Ludovica Zagaria, Hankook
- Does Recovered Carbon Black Carry a Structural Fingerprint? — Christian Kaiser, Fraunhofer Institute
- Detecting Oversized Particles in rCB with the New picoG-lite Instrument — Dr Franz Friebel, femtoG
- Pelletising System: Pin Mixers Built to Go Beyond Moisture and Binders — Nandakumar Nagothkar, Ecomak Systems
- Performance-Engineered rCB: Composite Synthesis, Properties, and Applications in Energy Storage and Advanced Materials — Dr Apichai Jomphoak, Siam Thaboon
- Optimised Cryogenic Inert Gas Mixtures and Energy Recovery for Enhanced rCB Quality in Tire Pyrolysis Processes — Iván Pérez, Messer
- Source-Dependent Variability of Recovered Carbon Black from End-of-Life Tyres and Its Influence on EPDM Rubber Performance — Dr. Kemal Cellat, Standard Profil
- Impact of Physical Properties of Recovered Carbon Black on the In-Rubber Performance — Andreas Kapf, Pyrum Innovations; Dr. Marco Tarantola, Continental Reifen Deutschland
- Demonstrating Coating-Enabled Performance Stability in Regenerated Carbon: Insights from rC Regen CGX-1000 — Mark Pender, Cabot
- From Waste to Performance: Dispersion Behaviour of Recovered Carbon Black in Waterborne Systems — Elif Canli, Kansai Altan
- Incorporating Recovered Carbon Black into Product Formulations — Speaker tbc
- Closing Remarks — Prof Dr Jorge Lacayo-Pineda, Continental Tires; Martin Von Wolfersdorff, Wolfersdorff Consulting
