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Black Bear Named in the 2018 Global Cleantech 100

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Black Bear Named in the 2018 Global Cleantech 100

 

Black Bear Carbon has been named in the prestigious 2018 Global Cleantech 100, produced by CTG (Cleantech Group), whose research and events services keep its audiences and clients in touch with emerging trends, leading innovation companies, and all key players in sustainable innovation.

The Global Cleantech 100 represents the most innovative and promising ideas impacting the future of a wide range of industries, according to the players in the market. Featuring companies that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges, the Global Cleantech 100 is a comprehensive list of private companies with the highest potential today to make a significant market impact within a 5-10-year timeframe.

“We are pleased to be selected as a Global Cleantech 100 company. It is another validation of our current traction and builds on our recent announcement of the AkzoNobel partnership” says Martijn Lopes Cardozo, CEO of Black Bear.

This list is collated by combining proprietary CTG research data, with weighted qualitative judgments from hundreds of nominations, and specific inputs from a global 86-person Expert Panel. To qualify for the list, companies must be independent, for-profit, cleantech companies that are not listed on any major stock exchange.

This year, a record number of nominations were received: 12,300 distinct companies from 61 countries. These companies were weighted and scored to create a short list of 312 companies. Short-listed nominees were reviewed by CTG’s Expert Panel, resulting in a finalized list of 100 companies from 18 countries.

The 86-member expert panel is drawn from leading financial investors and representatives of multi-national corporations and industrials active in technology and innovation scouting across Asia, Europe, and North America. The composition of the expert panel broadly represents the global cleantech community, from pioneers and leaders to veterans and new entrants. The diversity of panelists results in a list of companies that command an expansive base of respect and support from many important players within the global cleantech innovation ecosystem.

South Africa Looks Forwards From REDISA

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South Africa Looks Forwards From REDISA

Tyrexpo Africa takes place in Johannesburg on the 10-12th of April 2018. The tyre industry show is the largest of its kind in the whole of Africa, a continent that is only slowly coming to terms with modernisation, industrialisation and more recently waste management.

South Africa took a unique approach to end-of-life tyre management, removing the manufacturers from the loop by handing the overall management of ELT to REDISA, the Recycling and Economical Development Initiative for South Africa. The aim of REDISA was much greater than tyres alone, ultimately the organization had the aim of managing all South Africa’s waste resources.

The plan was that manufacturers and importers of tyres would pay a recycling tax on every kilo of rubber that they imported or produced, which created a huge fund that was to be used to fund the creation of a recycling chain that benefited everyone from the collector through to the processor and manufacturer of new materials.

The creation of REDISA upset the tyre manufacturers and retailers in South Africa, and from before its establishment, the organisation faced legal barriers and litigation. However, in the end, it was argued by opponents that REDISA was a milk cow for a few, nothing more than a money-making scheme for a small group of players. It is alleged that millions of Rand of the company funds simply vanished. Ultimately, REDISA was wound up on the 1st of June 2017.

As of January 2018, there has been no replacement, and actions against the directors have meant that the South African media have been holding fire on commenting.

So, what is the state of play in South Africa today? Tyres still need to be recycled.

Essentially, the market in South Africa has returned to a free market and there is little organisation managing tyres, those who need them get them, and those tyres without a market are not managed well at all.

However, in Kwaa Zulu Natal, the Mathe Group is growing its tyre recycling business, clearing its 100,000th tyre last September, much of its rubber production at Hammarsdale going to flooring manufacturing firm Van Dyke. Mathe also supplies crumb to the sports surfaces sector in South Africa. Capacity is expected to reach 150,000 tyres in the company’s second year of operation in this sector.

The players in the tyre sector in South Africa are sanguine about the outcome of the demise of REDISA, after all, they protested against the body from its conception through to its final liquidation.

Nobuzwe Mangcu, the Managing Executive of the South African Tyre Manufacturing Conference (SATMC) stated in a conversation with Roy Cockayne of IOL Business report, “We now have to move forward and SATMC believes the liquidation of REDISA will be for the benefit of the industry in the long term. As long as the future management of waste tyres in South Africa is managed in a transparent way with accountability.”

Jakkie Olivier, Chief Executive of The Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI) which includes the Tyre Dealers and Fitment Centre Association (TDAFA) comments, “So far the liquidation of REDISA has not had any negative impact on waste tyre collections but the general feeling is that problems still exist at some tyre depots on how to dispose of waste tyres.”

25th European Tyre Recycling Conference

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25th European Tyre Recycling Conference

2018 will be the 25th anniversary of the European Tyre Recycling Conference. This auspicious event will take place from Wednesday through to Friday 14 – 16 March 2018 at the NH Collection Hotel, Grand Sablon, Brussels.

25th Edition Looks to the Future

This 25th event will be entitled: 25 years of Tyre Recycling Progress : Focusing on the Future

ARTIS Holds Second SMG Seminar

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ARTIS Holds Second SMG Seminar

The Special Materials Group (SMG) promoted by ARTIS held its second annual seminar in London on the 18th January.

Membership Continues to Grow for SMG

In just one short year SMG has, through cooperation with its members achieved a great deal of growth in both membership and reach of its achievements.

Introduced by Chief Scientist Martyn Bennet and Dr. Chris Norris from ARTIS, the seminar heard of progress made in understanding recovered Carbon Black and how the SMG was looking to expand its interests into other sectors of the recycled rubber sector, and indeed into other materials, possibly including composites, where there may be synergies in recycling and new products.

The Seminar closed with an open discussion on where SMG should be looking at future projects – one area that received considerable discussion was the need for specifications for rCB, a standard that could be used as a reference, at least, for measuring the PAH content of rCB.

It was argued that here were already standards however, it was evident that the standard PAH test was set at too low a temperature and that when rCB was utilised in compounding and vulcanising processes it often reached far higher temperatures and it was then that the PAH were released. Some improved method of measuring the PAH content would be a positive move that coul possibly be taken to the ASTM committee on rCB.

Repak ELT Takes Legal Action Against Tyre Collector

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Repak ELT Takes Legal Action Against Tyre Collector

Repak ELT, the Irish government approved body operating the country’s tyre recycling scheme has taken proceedings against a tyre collection firm on grounds alleging it is misleading customers and others in the tyre business.

Repak ELT Brings Delvin Tyres, Co Westmeath, Operated by Daniel McHugh to the Irish High Court

Repak ELT claims the defendant has held himself out as an authorised tyre collector registered with Repak ELT, has advertised its services using Repak ELT’s logo and has said it is compliant with all of Repak ELT regulations when it was not entitled to do so.

Stephen Dowling BL, for Repak ELT, said it fears the defendant’s actions will “irreparably damage” and “significantly undermine” its reputation as the approved body overseeing the tyre recycling compliance scheme.

Repack ELT wants injunctions including restraining the defendant displaying passing off his business as being associated with Repak ELT, and from infringing its copyright.

It also seeks orders preventing the defendant engaging in any misleading marketing campaign and requiring he cancel the domain name www.reparkelt.com which he has allegedly registered.

Mr Justice Tony O Connor granted Repak ELT permission to serve notice of the injunction proceedings on Delvin Tyres. Permission was granted on an ex parte, one side only represented, basis and the matter was adjourned.

In its action, Repak ELT, claims that the defendant had applied to be a registered member of Repak ELT, but was refused. Mr Dowling said while the defendant was entitled to reapply, it has continued to collect tyres which it is not entitled to do. The defendant then allegedly used Repak ELTs logo and logos which are very similar, counsel said.

Source: Irish Times

Niramax Fined For Environmental Breaches

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Niramax Fined For Environmental Breaches

Hartlepool tyre processer, Niramax has been fined £16,000 after admitting two environmental offences in Hartlepool and Washington.

Fine Follows Guilty Verdict

Niramax Group Ltd pleaded guilty to offences relating to the storing of a huge pile of shredded tyres at its Tofts Road site in Hartlepool breaching the terms of its environmental permit by giving off dust and creating a fire hazard. It was also fined over an infestation of flies, which prosecutors said was preventable, at a waste transfer station at Monument Park in Washington.

The company was prosecuted by the Environment Agency. In relation to the Hartlepool offence, Lee Fish, prosecuting for the agency, told Teesside Crown Court that an enforcement notice was served on the company in March 2016 following complaints about dust coming from the Tofts Road site. An inspection found the company was not storing shredded tyres in individual bays as required under their permit.

Mr Fish said: “Officers were immediately concerned about what they saw.” A photograph showed the bays buried beneath the tyres. The company admitted failing to comply with the conditions of the enforcement notice by June 15, 2016, when Mr Fish said there were still no fire breaks provided.

Regarding the tyres, Nigel Edwards representing Niramax said that had seen surge in demand due to fewer firms being able to take them. He said 98 per cent of them had been processed by the time of the breach. Mr Edwards said: “They felt obliged to take up the slack in relation to that and assist what was going on within the waste management industry. “The reality is they were doing their level best.” He added: “This is not a rogue operator.”

Kevin Wanless, Niramax operations director at the time of the offences, said: “We have got quality management systems in place which we have always had. “For the last year and a half now, the site has been compliant.” The court heard how the firm’s turnover has seen a downward trend in the last three years from £36m to £20m, and in 2017 it made a net loss of around £3m. The judge,

Recorder Mark McKone, said the tyres breach was more serious due to the fire risk. He added: “It’s inevitable that dealing in waste is expensive and it’s important that corners are not cut either deliberately or negligently.” Niramax was also ordered to pay £10,000 towards the Environment Agency’s legal costs.

Rachael Caldwell, Enforcement Team Leader at the Environment Agency, said: “Environmental laws exist for a reason – to protect the environment and communities – so it is vital that waste operators meet the conditions of their permits.”

Tyre Recovery Association Welcomes UK Government’s Tougher Approach

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Tyre Recovery Association Welcomes UK Government’s Tougher Approach

The Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) has welcomed the introduction of enhanced enforcement powers to tackle waste crime for the Environment Agency (EA) and further proposals by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) for measures to reduce waste crime and poor performance at waste sites.

TRA Welcomes Introduction of Enhanced Enforcement Powers to Tackle Waste Crime for EA

As of spring 2018, the EA will have the authority to lock the gates or block access to problem waste sites and force operators to clear all, not just the illegal, waste. That announcement was followed by the launch of a public consultation from Defra on its proposals to make it harder to qualify for permits; require more waste operations to be registered, and provide local authorities with the option of issuing fines rather than having to pursue criminals through the courts.

The consultation also proposes improving awareness among householders of their duty of care when disposing of waste, a principle the TRA has been actively advocating with its ‘kNOw Tyre Waste’ campaign. While householders are not the target of activities, individuals should be aware of their responsibility when using disposal services and ensure those receiving their waste are properly licenced. If they do not, it is proposed local authorities will be given the authority to fine householders should their waste be identified in an illegal site, in addition to their currently liability for fly-tipping and illegal disposal.

This duty of care was highlighted by Therese Coffey, Environment Minister, at the announcement of the consultation: “These new powers for the Environment Agency will curb the rise of waste sites that continue to operate outside the law. But we must all take responsibility for our waste to make sure it does not end up in the hands of criminals who will wilfully dump it.”

Peter Taylor OBE, Secretary General of the TRA, said: “The new powers announced for the EA and proposals forwarded in Defra’s consultation are positive steps forward in dealing with waste crime. While they will not solve the problem on their own, they do at the very least signal a renewed determination and willingness to tackle the issue which damages the environment and costs the economy and industry hundreds of millions of pounds each year. Not only that, but waste crime also undermines operators who invest in achieving the correct permitted licences and abide by regulations. The TRA also hopes further essential measures will be implemented following the consultation, particularly to reduce the concerning number of sites exempt from waste regulations.”

TRA Committed to Participating in the Consultation with Close Date at 11:45pm, 26 March 2018.

The TRA has recently launched two initiatives relating to duty of care in waste disposal. Responsible Retailing was launched to educate retailers on the importance of ensuring their waste is handled by an authorised waste carrier. ‘kNOw Tyre Waste’ was an initiative conceived to assist retailers in explaining the need for tyre recycling to consumers. It was designed to explain the different types of tyre waste, the examples of applications and the useful statistics surrounding tyre waste.

ETRA Innovation Workshop in Turin

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ETRA Innovation Workshop in Turin

ETRA – The European Tyre Recycling Association, in co-operation with the Chamber of Commerce of Turin, Politecnico of Turin, Environment Park, CLEVER Proplast, CGreen, CEI Piemonte, ANTEL and ARGO, are running an Up-cycle – Upgrading Recycled Tyre Materials, Products and Applications workshop on the 26th January 2018.

Packed Schedule for ETRA to Illustrate Benefits of Recycling

The workshop is designed to illustrate the many current and potential uses of Recycled Tyre Materials (RTMs) in various fields of application, highlighting the flexibility of use and high performance of the materials. ETRA hopes to stimulate discussions on new product development, research projects and cooperation. Topics will include: thermal, vibration and noise insulation, flexible and reinforced concrete, rubber compounds and thermo-plastic elastomeric materials, automotive and rail products, sports applications.

The programme will bring together companies from tyre recycling and end-user sectors with researchers from Universities and experts from various fields.

The goal is to come up with new partnerships and projects for the upcoming EU Funding Calls for 2018-2020. In order to increase their opportunities Participants may enter their cooperation profile into the ETRA Partner Registry, and to receive further assistance after the workshop as well. They will become part of a dynamic process that includes other

opportunities. The very next one will be on 14-16 March 2018, in Brussels at the ETRA Conference. There will be a one day NCP workshop, for a limited group of 15-20 attendees to define the key elements for 1-2 projects (partners, call, etc.). This workshop is part of a programme with various Universities around Europe, coordinated by ETRA that will continue throughout 2018 in the frame of ETRA 25th Anniversary. The program will cover all the main issues related to tyre recycling, and will analyse the state of the art, the problems, the technology and market potential.

UK Government Issues Proposals for an Environmental Plan

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UK Government Issues Proposals for an Environmental Plan

In what should be good news for the environment, Theresa May’s government has produced a proposal for an Environmental plan. An initial scan of the 155 page document leaves this writer suspecting that this is a smoke screen latching onto popular anger about oceanic plastic waste and the ongoing ivory trade to detract from other issues.

Government Looking to Improve Waste Management Options for the UK

However, in the newspeak, there are a couple of statements that suggest a drive to improve waste management, though we have heard the example below several times before:

“We must also ensure that we are not simply exporting waste to other countries. Better intelligence about criminal activity and targeted inspections are estimated to have cut illegally exported electrical and household waste from England by 17% between 2014 and 2016, saving the UK economy £2.75m over the two years.”

Yet still, we see our waste being exported to destinations with no end use certification being returned to the EA.

One other point that may or may not have an impact upon tyre recovery and recycling:

“Reforming our Producer Responsibility systems (including packaging waste regulations) to incentivise producers to take greater responsibility for the environmental impacts of their products. This will include exploring extending producer responsibility requirements to plastic products not currently covered by our existing regimes to create a better market for recycled plastic.”

However, since there is not one single mention of tyres in this document, one might suspect that the tyre industry can rest easy.

The full text of the proposal can be found here.

Automechanika Vietnam Develops Tyre Presence by Adding Reifen Brand

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Automechanika Vietnam Develops Tyre Presence by Adding Reifen Brand

The second edition of Automechanika Ho Chi Minh City will open its door on 25 April 2018, and this year the show will be developing its presence in the tyre sector thanks to the addition of a tyre section being marketed under the globally recognised “Reifen” brand. The three-day show, which is being held from 25-27 April at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center in Ho Chi Minh City aims to become Vietnam’s leading regional trade fair for the automotive service industry targeting trade visitors from Vietnam.

8,500 Visitors Expected to Attend

With an expected 360 exhibitors and 8,500 visitors, the show will cover parts and components, electronics, accessories, repair and maintenance, dealer and workshop management, car wash, alternative drive systems and digital solutions. The tyre section will cover tyres, wheels and wheel rims, tyre repair, used tyres, tyre management and systems, sales equipment and tyre storage.

Supporters of the show include the Vietnam Rubber Association.

The organisers report that this year there will be a dedicated German pavilion for the first time. Germany is Vietnam’s largest import market and second largest export market, after Netherlands. With the total export turnover between the two countries recently reaching US$4.6 billion, the largest industries within this are related to machinery, equipment and spare parts. Most importantly, Germany is one of the major markets supplying complete automobiles and components to the region. In the first six months of 2017 alone, the total volume of completed cars and related components stood at US$126.5 million.

The organisers have also announced a new strategic partnership with German automotive chemicals giant LIQUI MOLY. The company has joined the partnership programme of Automechanika Ho Chi Minh City, which assists global industry players in breaking into the growing Vietnamese automotive market. Through this platform, LIQUI MOLY will have the opportunity to work alongside the show organisers to develop its brand awareness and marketing opportunities in Vietnam, as well as boost its cooperation with local workshops and car manufacturers.

Retreading Business and Tyre & Rubber recycling will be attending the show in April and will be reporting on opportunities within the retreading and recycling sectors as well as local operators in these markets.

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