Pyrum, Schwalbe and TH Köln Cooperate on Bicycle Tyres

End-of-life bicycle tyres have so far ended up in landfill or at waste incineration plants and are dumped in the form of incineration ash. In a research project at TH Köln on the “Innovative raw material recycling concept for old bicycle tyres in the sense of a closed cycle economy”, a team from the TH Köln is working with two cooperation partners on how new bicycle tyres can be made from old tyres.

Pyrum Innovations Cooperates with TH Köln

“Currently, bicycle tyres are mostly incinerated as residual waste. This process does not make sense from an ecological point of view,...