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Spanish Clamp Down on Illegal Exports

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Spanish Clamp Down on Illegal Exports

The Spanish Guardia Civil, in operation ROTAMM, has arrested a “criminal group” consisting of nine people who, from Spain, illegally operated a used tyre network in 17 countries in Europe, Africa and America. The Guardia Civil Seprona estimate that the band “illegally managed more than 200,000 tyres in the last five years, reporting more than 1.8 million euros of profit.”

Major Operation with Europol and Ameripol Results in Impressive International Discovery

The Guardia Civil said that the operation in Malaga relied on the services of Seprona working with its Europol and Ameripol counterparts, and that, after six months of investigation, “nine people were arrested, while five more were charged with criminal responsibility and 17 inspections were carried out at various facilities. Thanks to the evidence obtained, it has been possible to charge the criminal group with crimes against the environment, documentary falsification, fraud and belonging to a criminal group.”

In addition to illicit profits of close to two million euros, the Guardia Civil stresses that “it would be necessary to add almost 300,000 euros that the Integrated Management Systems of Signus and TNU, in Spain – fail to receive due to the uncontrolled entry of tyres from other countries and the consequent taxes that are not paid. In order to guarantee the recovery of the damages caused and the payment of the amounts determined in the Final Judicial Resolution, we have proceeded to freeze up to 60 properties, between real estate properties and other movable property, for a value of 4,000 .000 euros.”

Both the Guardia Civil and Seprona have outlined that “the network acquired used tyres both in Spain and in other countries of Europe, especially in those where there is a culture of early change. Once in Spain, they should have been selected, assigning the best state to the second-hand market and the rest for elimination. However, of the latter, some did meet that end, but another portion also went to the second-hand market. The problem arose when those that should have gone to controlled elimination or were destined for recycling, were sold to third-world countries with low-income levels for sale as used tyres.

First Tyre Recycling Day Organised for Argentina

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First Tyre Recycling Day Organised for Argentina

Argentina’s first Tyre Recycling Day will be held on June 15, 2018 at the facilities of the INTI, National Institute of Industrial Technology, located in the city of Buenos Aires.

The event aims to be a unique opportunity that takes place in an innovative context at the regional level to convene the rubber and tyre industries in order to promote recycling throughout the value chain, promoting research, development and innovation, as has been done in an uninterrupted manner since 2003 by the country’s Permanent Commission of Tire Recycling.

The Day is organized by two long-standing institutions – namely INTI and FAIC, the Argentine Federation of the Rubber Industry.

The main objective is the dissemination, at a technical and business level, of issues such as: technological trends, the circular economy and sustainable development, and also seeks to promote the connection between suppliers and customers in order to encourage the installation of recycling plants and promote the uses of recycled rubber.

For more information get in touch through the following email address: reciclandoneumaticos@inti.gob.ar

Chilean ‘TECER’ Signs an MoU with ‘CEYES’

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Chilean ‘TECER’ Signs an MoU with ‘CEYES’

TECER tyre recycling (based in Santiago, Chile) has signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with CEYES as the first step in establishing a complete nationwide network of several semi mobile MTB waste tyre recycling systems in Chile. The agreement applies also some complete semi mobile mining tyre recycling solution for a total of 100 000 tons of end of life tyres per year.

CEYES is a leading consultancy firm on waste tyre recycling solutions in the Circular Economy. CEYES works together with MTB recycling (France) and with various leading European manufacturers. Together with MTB, they designed a complete semi mobile waste mining tyre solution. This is a whole new approach, small-scale local recycling in the Circular Economy. The MTB GATOR and TIRE boxes are circular, compact, mobile, efficient, effective, economical, 100 per cent recyclable and create less CO2 emissions compared to a factory building. They are ideal to recycle up to 63″ OTR’s local at waste tyre piles on the mining sites.

After this local recycling, TECER will use the granulates to produce the highest quality, recovered Carbon Black with another Dutch partner ‘Black Bear Carbon‘.

A part of the produced granulate will also be used for the production of ‘green roof storm water retention panels’ designed by CEYES for the Latin American market to further expand the waste tyre ‘Closed Loop’ concept.

TECER will be in operations with the first complete waste mining tyre system by the end of 2018 in Chile and it will be the first complete system in Latin America.

“The signing of the MoU between TECER and CEYES represents a significant milestone in the strategic vision of finding a sustainable circular solution that allows recovery of valuable materials from end of life mining tires”, says Sergio González de la Fuente of TECER.

 

 

 

Tyre Recycling Forum at The Tire 29th May to 1st June 2018

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Tyre Recycling Forum at The Tire 29th May to 1st June 2018

In an industry first, Tyre and Rubber Recycling is bringing the tyre recycling sector into the heart of the tyre industry. In a series of nine seminar sessions, Tyre and Rubber Recycling will be introducing 29 speakers from across the industry and around the world to speak about tyre recycling at the largest tyre industry event in Europe in 2018.

Never before has the recycling sector been invited into the tyre industry’s premium European event in this way. Speakers will represent the European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturer’s Association, Signus, Ecopneus, equipment suppliers, researchers and product developers. All speaking at the seminars that will take place on the Recycling Forum in Hall 9 at Koelnmesse, over the first three days of the show. What is more, access to these seminars is free. Normally, many of these speakers and presentations can only be heard at paid for conferences. Here at The Tire Cologne, once the entrance fee to the exhibition is paid, the Tyre Recycling Seminars are free of charge.

The recycling sector asked to get closer to the tyre manufacturers, and Tyre and Rubber Recycling has done its best to make that happen.  Come and attend the seminars, join the discussion and take the opportunity to speak to our presenters. Or, go and visit the tyre manufacturers’ stands and make direct contact with their technical experts and ask them about their approach to recycling and how you can help them.

On Friday there will be the opportunity for recycling exhibitors to present their equipment and services in the arena.

Remember 9 sessions, 29 speakers, and no additional costs to attend.

The Programme for the Tyre Recycling Forum

Session 1 – European Market Overview – 10.30 to 11.30 am, Tues 29 May

  • Ewan Scott – (Tyre & Rubber Recycling)
  • Daniele Fornai – (Ecopneus)
  • Jean-Pierre Taverne (ETRMA)
  • Peter Taylor (TRA)

Session 2-   European Market Overview – 12.00 – 13.00 pm, Tues 29 May

  • Robert Weibold (Robert Weibold GmbH)
  • Roberto Perez (Signus)
  • Arihant Singhi (Gemini)

Session 3 – Markets and Technology – 14.30-15.20 Tues 29 May

  • Andrea Pitto – (Salvadori srl)
  • Michael Graveman – (Granutech)
  • Stephen Murphy (Gradeall)

Session 4 – Global Market Trends – 10.30 – 11.30 am Wed 30 May

  • Dario Andreani (INSAMAR- Chile)
  • David Shaw – (Tire Industry Research)
  • Vladislav Vorotnikov (Tyre & Rubber Recycling)

Session 5 – Rubber Technology and Recycling – 12.00 – 13.00 pm Wed 30 May

  • Fredrik Olofsson (Scandinavian Enviro Systems)
  • Chris Norris (Artis)
  • Sonia Megert-Marshall (TRS)

Session 6 – Crumb Rubber – An Update – 14.30 – 15.30 Wed 30 May

  • Stephan Rau (WdK)
  • Daniele Fornai (Ecopneus)
  • Luis Alfonso de Leon (Cirtec)

Session 7 – Environmental Impacts – 10.30 – 11.30 Thurs 31 May

  • Dario Andreani (Sustrend)
  • Wilma Dierkes
  • Third Speaker to be confirmed

Session 8 – Future Challenges for the Tyre Recycling Industry – 12.00 – 13.00 Thurs 31 May

  • ZARE (German Language Panel Discussion)
  • Moderator – Yorick Lowin (BRV),
  • Hanna Schoeberl (Kurz Karkassenhandel)
  • Herr Dr.-Ing. Stefan Hoyer (Forschungsbereich Extrusionstechnologien und Recycling)
  • Danny Schwalbe; MRH Mülsener Rohstoff- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH
  • Plus representatives from the tyre distribution trade, the cement industry and the political sphere

Session 9 – Rubber Technology and Recycling – 14.30 – 15.30 Thurs 31 May

  • Martin von Wolfersdorff – (Wolfersdorff Consulting)
  • Sam Visaisouk – (Tyromer)
  • François Baratin (Phenix)

Session 10 – Product Forum – 10.30 – 11.30 Fri 1 June

  • Session moderated by David Wilson (Publisher Retreading Business)

Session 11 – Product Forum –  12.00 – 13.00 Fri 1 June

  • Session moderated by Ewan Scott (Editor Tyre & Rubber Recycling)

Fines for Illegal Ayrshire Site

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Fines for Illegal Ayrshire Site

An Ayrshire tyre recycling company has been fined UKP 27,000, and a manager of the company was ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work under a Community Payback Order and to pay a Confiscation Order of UKP 44,711 for waste offences at a site in Irvine.

Decision Made Following Guilty Pled

Autowaste Services Scotland Ltd, and a manager Stephen Gillies, had pled guilty at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court to depositing, keeping, sorting and baling waste tyres at Unit 32B Kyle Road, Irvine without a waste management licence. The company had also failed to remove the waste tyres when required to do so by a notice served by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).

Terry A’Hearn, SEPA’s chief executive, said: “This is the sort of tough action we need to be seen taking against these sort of operators who have no regard for Scotland’s environment.

“Every society has a series of waste streams, it’s important that they’re minimised, it’s important that, to the extent we have them, they’re managed properly. This behaviour is the opposite of that, and SEPA will continue to take action against these sorts of operators and make sure they’re held to account.”

SEPA officers visited the site over 18 times between October 2014 and October 2015 after they discovered that many more waste tyres were being kept or deposited onto the site than were allowed under the terms of a registered waste exemption. Numerous verbal discussions took place with the company’s management and they were sent advisory letters, warning letters and statutory notices about the limitations of the exemptions regime and the requirement for a waste management licence.

In October 2015 there were more than 46,000 waste tyres at the site. At that time, an operator needed to hold a waste management licence if more than 1,000 waste tyres were being stored on a site. (A change in the law on 1 April 2016 requires a licence if any quantity of third party tyres are to be stored). A licence is also required to sort and bale tyres. However, Autowaste Services Scotland Ltd did not hold a waste management licence for the site.

Source:CIWM

Rubber materials – Inner Tubes to Bags and PPE

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Rubber materials – Inner Tubes to Bags and PPE

 

From time to time news fillers arise about small business developments using recycled rubber materials to make craft goods such as plant pots, sandals, or bags. To many in the recycling sector, these are curiosities offering no real business opportunities.

However, South African entrepreneur Reabetswe Ngwane has developed a more business-like approach to recycling. Initially starting out making schoolbags from plastic waste, Ngwane learned some of the basics of marketing her recycled products. When the business partnership that produced the bags dissolved, Ngwane looked for something with better prospects.

Doing some back to basics research amongst street collectors in South Africa’s North West province, she realised that there were a lot of rubber inner tubes going to waste. It wasn’t long before Ngwane was making bags from inner tubes,

The tubes would be collected from local mines, washed and prepared, cut to patterns and new fashionable bags created. This is where many of these entry-level recycling craft businesses end, but Ngwane had other ideas and by talking to miners and mine operators she discovered the potential for new markets for recycled products and whilst the fashion bags are a premium product in her range, she now supplies mines and miners with a range of products that enhance safety in the mines.

There were three particular items where canvas was the normal material used, and canvas , though hard wearing, was susceptible to damage and rot in the conditions in the mines.

Ngwane developed rubber bags made from inner tubes as cases for first aid kits used in the mines, and in bags for masks; protecting the contents from the humidity in the mines.

In the confined spaces of the mines wear and tear on worker’s trouser and anatomy is high as they scrabble on the ground and against the walls of the tunnels. Ngwane developed a “reverse” apron, a mat strapped around the waist and thighs to protect the rear of miners.

Today, what started as a craft business selling plastic schoolbags has developed into a medium sized enterprise with a multiple range of products, from utility to fashion. The company, KreamFields, has now been in operation for the last two years, and its future looks promising.

Tyre Manufacturer Confirms Positive Test Results with EnviroCB

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Tyre Manufacturer Confirms Positive Test Results with EnviroCB

In addition to previously reported positive tests by tyre manufacturers, another international tyre manufacturer has now confirmed their positive test results of recovered carbon black, EnviroCB, from Scandinavian Enviro Systems AB.

“The international tyre manufacturer, with production in Europe, confirms the positive test results and will now conduct production tests with a larger volume of recovered carbon black from Enviro“, says Thomas Sörensson, Managing Director Enviro.

Last year, Enviro reported that several international tyre manufacturers confirmed very positive test results and also approved the recovered carbon black for use in new tyres. After that, the demand for testing EnviroCB has increased, a smaller order has also been delivered to Sri Lanka for the production of industrial tyres.

“So far, Chinese Vanlead is the only tyre manufacturer that has approved our material that we are able to present by name. Our hope is that more companies will follow and present their successes in the development of a circular economy for tyre production. Most major players in the industry have clear goals to increase the share of recycled materials”, says Thomas Sörensson.

Pearl Global Move Towards Production in Australia

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Pearl Global Move Towards Production in Australia

Pearl Global Ltd is moving towards its first commercial-scale tyre processing facility near Brisbane in Queensland.

Pearl Global is a tyre processing company that applies what it claims to be a unique technology to cleanly convert tyres into valuable secondary products.

Pearl is commissioning its first commercial-scale production facility and the site is now in the final stages of the commissioning process. The commissioning process is not limited to the thermal desorption units, but all operational functions.

Pearl also claims to have Australia’s first and only environmental approvals for the thermal treatment of rubber.

The company’s technology is a significant advancement on other methods of processing waste tyres because it has low emissions, no hazardous by-products and requires no chemical intervention

It is also the only process that meets the standard emissions criteria set by the Australian regulators for this type of technology.

About Organized Crime Tyre Collection Sector Slavery

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At the bottom end of the recycling sector ladder lies a murky elephant in the room that few will discuss openly. Gary Walker at the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency did speak openly about organised crime operating in the tyre collection sector. There have been veiled references to crime in England from the EA, but it would be easy to presume that they were talking simply of exemption contraventions. However, it runs deeper, and this case may make us all think twice about using low cost car washes staffed by low paid staff, or buying used tyres from back street dealers.

Members of a Slovakian family have been convicted of trafficking people into the United Kingdom and forcing them to work for little or no pay.

Five members of the Newcastle-based Rafael family were found guilty of the systematic exploitation of homeless, unemployed and vulnerable people from Eastern Europe following a trial at Teesside Crown Court. Two further family members pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.

The defendants, spanning three generations, were prosecuted for offences against eight victims who they trafficked into the UK and forced into work.

In order to help secure the convictions the CPS made arrangements for the vulnerable victims to give evidence against the Rafaels. This included facilitating travel back to the UK and special measures such as video links and intermediaries.

The court heard how between 2010 and 2017 members of the Rafael family or their associates would approach people in towns in Slovakia and the Czech Republic with the promise of food, work and accommodation in the United Kingdom.

Victims would be transported to Newcastle and taken to houses where they were kept in cellars or in crowded rooms. They were then put to work while the family arranged bank accounts and National Insurance numbers for them so that loans could be taken out in their names.

Their identification documents and bank cards were confiscated so the family could control their movements and wages.

The family forced their victims to work in car washes, or in jobs packing food, cleaning concrete from old bricks, and pulling springs from old mattresses for scrap metal. Often the work was heavy manual labour over long shifts.

The victims received a tiny fraction of their income, with the majority kept by the Rafael family. They were given small amounts of food and told they needed to pay back the money they owed for transport and housing.

Two victims who arrived in Newcastle in March 2017 were told not to leave the house to avoid the police as they would be arrested if they were seen. Others were physically threatened when they attempted to leave.

A father and son were given one meal and were told it would need to last them a whole week. Another victim was sent back to Slovakia after a year of forced labour with no money or possessions other than his clothes. Another was paid £10 a day for 12-hour shifts unloading tyres.

The offending came to light when one man escaped a property in Newcastle and alerted police.

 (Source: Criminal prosecution Service)

TRAC 2018 Rubber Recycling Symposium

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TRAC 2018 Rubber Recycling Symposium

The Tire and Rubber Association of Canada (TRAC), the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association (USTMA) together with Host Sponsor, eTracks Tire Management Systems, will be hosting the 2018 Rubber Recycling Symposium, held on November 7-8 at the Sheraton on the Falls Hotel, Niagara Falls, Canada.

This symposium brings together international experts and professionals from the tyre and rubber manufacturing sectors, the rubber recycling industry, including processors, transporters, equipment manufacturers and stewardship organizations, as well as government and academia. The event offers a unique opportunity to explore the varied approaches in Extended Producer Responsibility, and to compare successes and opportunities for delivering and meeting our industry’s goals.

The event’s “Taking Sustainability to the Next Level” theme starts with the premise that corporate sustainability is fully embedded at the highest level of the industry. But what of the value chain as tyres move through the market distribution channels to the final end-user? Do we have sustainable market players throughout the channels who act in accord with corporate sustainability goals and, more importantly, can these players operate in an ethical, social, environmental, cultural and economic sphere in the same way as their major suppliers?

To be sure, there are other drivers at play such as economic factors, market conditions and legislative imperatives that can work to either stymie or encourage sustainability. The 2018 Symposium will attempt to explore all sides of the issue in order to take the industry’s corporate sustainability where it needs to be.

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