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Regrip Invests in Largest TDF site in Rajasthan

India’s Regrip is investing in tyre recycling by setting-up largest ‘Waste-to-Oil’ site in the Western state of Rajasthan

The upcoming tyre recycling site is regarded as the largest such venture in India. The state government incubated start-up Regrip, set to turn the waste tyres into a national opportunity.

Tushar Suhalka, Founder, Regrip India Private Limited
Tushar Suhalka, Founder, Regrip India Private Limited

“We have been granted a license to set-up India’s largest capacity ‘tyre to oil’ plant in the RIICO Industrial Area of Sohna in Bhilwara. The proposed site would process 180 tons of tyre waste per day (54,000 tons) annually, which is about 2% of the total tyre waste generated in India annually, reducing carbon emissions equivalent to removing 100,000 cars from Indian roads each year,” claimed Tushar Suhalka, Founder, Regrip India Private Limited in an exclusive interaction with Tyre and Rubber Recycling. The Rajasthan-origin cleantech-start-up, digitally laid the foundation stone of the continuous waste-to-energy tyre recycling plant on 4th October 2025.

It is estimated that India generates more than 3.4 million tons of discarded tyres annually. Unlike plastics and e-waste, tyre waste has remained largely absent from the policy framework until the central government introduced EPR couple of years ago.

Over 90% of India’s tyre recycling is carried out by the informal sector comprising unregulated units, often using batch-type pyrolysis plants that operates with poor efficiency and high pollution. “But Regrip is investing in continuous pyrolysis technology plant, setting a benchmark on tyre waste can be managed sustainably and at scale.” 

Investment in TDF site

Regrip is making a significant investment in the project that is backed by investors such as Bollywood actor Suniel Shetty and angel investor Mahavir Pratap Sharma, who is also a board member.

“We are investing about INR 600 million in the Bhilwara site, spreads over 8,000 sq. metres, and production will commence in six months.”

When asked amount of oil produced by the site, Tushar said, “The plant will recycle 180 tons of scrap tyres per day, around 45% Tyre-Derived-Fuel (TDF) produced from the total tyres recycled each day.” 

TDF applications include replacing fossil fuels in industrial processes like cement, steel, pulp, glass manufacturing and power generation in operating kilns and boilers in major industrial sites.

Sets-up robust tyre collection network

To overcome the challenge of tyre collection, Regrip is building a robust infrastructure for collecting 5,000 tons of tyres for its usage. “We have set-up 40 collection centres in 24 cities, looking at expanding the collection network to 100 cities. We are conscious of how tyre reaches to us before embarking on building the tyre recycling plant.”

The whole network of collection centres generates indirect employment of about 750 people as the network of micro-enterprises built-up for tyre collection.

The project is supported by Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and iStart Rajasthan (integrated start-up platform of Rajasthan). Regrip’s emergence symbolises how state-led industrial policy and startup ecosystem can deliver national-cale impact. Now Rajasthan is positioning itself as the epicentre of India’s tyre-to-energy revolution.

While laying digital foundation of India’s largest tyre-to-oil recycling plant Deputy Chief of Rajasthan Prem Chand Bairwa said, “The tyre recycling venture intends to solve the major issue of tyre scrap facing the country today and the venture contributes to building of a ‘New and self-reliant India.” 

Suniel Shetty said, “Tyre waste is one of India’s biggest blind spots in sustainability and Regrip is showing the way with scale, technology, and impact. This plant is not just a project, but it is a statement of how India can turn waste into an opportunity.” 

Opened ‘Waste-to-Material’ site in Alwar

Regrip opened a ‘Waste-to-Material’ 300 tons micro tyre recycling site in Alwar (Rajasthan) facility with a local partner on a franchisee model. “The idea is to process scrap tyre and convert it into micronized rubber format or crumb rubber having multiple applications as a raw material like it goes into road construction, on mixing with bitumen becomes CRMB (crumb rubber modified bitumen), tread rubber, gym tiles, shoe soles etc. “

To set-up 11 micro tyre recycling sites across India

The company is rolling out the franchisee model across India. “We are trying to set up 11 micro tyre recycling capacities across the country. We have the Alwar already live, Ahmedabad (Gujarat) is coming in the next month.”

The concept is same, but partners are different in each location. A Chennai franchisee has already signed up, gets live in 3-months and it will be the third micro tyre recycling site. “The idea is to set-up micro tyre recycling capacities to decentralise the recycling. It is hard to take tyres from one location to another location because it is bulky in nature. So, what we are trying to do is we can recycle within 200-300 km of that vicinity. And thus, the concept of micro recycling works,” he explained.

The micro recycling plants based on franchisee model where the franchisees own the land and the machinery given to them. “We can’t own land at every location because licencing and everything comes on the land, therefore, franchisee owns the land and required capital in order operate as partner.”

Regrip India was founded in 2021 by Tushar Suhalka, with a vision to create a brand of retreaded tyres and has expanded to offer comprehensive tyre recycling and management solutions for fleet owners.