Following is a selection of recent media articles about Green Distillation Technologies from across the web:
2020:
10 March 2020 – Rubber & Plastic News
MTAQ invests in Australian tire recycler
3 March 2020 – ABC Far North Radio:
2 March 2020 – Tyre News
Queensland Motor Industry Invests in Innovative Australian Tyre Recycler
26 February 2020 – Coonamble Times:
Old Coonamble Tyres to be recycled at Warren plant
Click on the thumbnail for a larger screenshot of the article. Reproduced with kind permission from coonambletimes.com.au.
31 January 2020 – Industry Global News 24:
GDT have ambitious plans for future
29 January 2020 – Government News:
Tyre recycler up for international award
24 January 2020 – Tire Business:
Australian tire recycler nominated for environmental award
23 January 2020 – Industry Update Manufacturing Magazine:
Tyres to graphite project gains green recognition
22 January 2020 – Tyre and Rubber Recycling:
GDT & Carbonscape Recognised by Tire Tech International
14 January 2020 – Industry Update Manufacturing Magazine
Australian tyre recycler exports process to the USA
13 January 2020 – AU Manufacturing
Recycling imperative to create winners, but Australians have been reluctant to back innovators
This is an excellent story, based on an interview with Trevor Bayley, but unfortunately it has a couple of errors in the text. Here are the corrections:
The second plant planned for GDT in Australia will be at Toowoomba and the process only requires an oxygen free environment.
10 January 2020 – European Rubber Journal:
Australian tire recycler in $100m deal to set up plants in US
10 January 2020 – Tire Business:
Australian tire recycler secures funding for plants in U.S.
8 January 2020 – Tyre and Rubber Recycling:
8 January 2020 – Bio Fuels Digest:
Australian tire-to-fuels recycler signs deal for first US plant
7 January 2020 – Traction News:
Green Distillation Technologies signs deal for first US plant
7 January 2020 – Recycling International:
Global plans of Australian tyre recycler
7 January 2020 – Tyrepress:
Green Distillation Technologies signs $100 million US tyre recycling plant deal
Click on the thumbnail for a larger screenshot of the article. Reproduced with kind permission from tyrepress.com.
2019:
27 November 2019 – Tire Technology International:
GDT aims to plug gap in Australia’s tire recycling capacity
1 November 2019 – Stuff:
Marlborough Firm CarbonScape Signs Up To Convert Old Tyres Into Graphite
16 October 2019 – Tire Technology International:
New technology turns carbon from recycled tires into graphite
14 October 2019 – AU Manufacturing:
Trans-Tasman Collaboration Aims To Make High-Purity Graphite From Old Tyres
14 October 2019 – Tyres & Parts News:
14 October 2019 – Recycling International:
South Africa invests in tyre tech from Down Under
5 October 2019 – Afrik 21:
SOUTH AFRICA: GDT partners with Volco to set up 5 recycling plants for tyres
4 October 2019 – Tire Technology International:
Australian tire recycler in AU$50m deal to establish plants in South Africa
2 October 2019 – Traction News:
Australian tire recycler signs $50 million deal to establish plants in South Africa
2 October 2019 – AU Manufacturing:
Tyre Recycler Branches Out Bigtime To Africa
1 October 2019 – European Rubber Journal:
Australian tire recycler to set up five plants in South Africa
25 September 2019 – The Project (Channel 10 Television)
How The Recycling Crisis Has Become A Business Opportunity
12 September 2019 – Daily Liberal:
Green Distribution Technologies tyre recycling plant calls out for Dubbo schools
9 August 2019 – Inside Waste:
Tyre recycler conducts first trials of US heat to energy technology
1 August 2019 – Toowoomba Chronicle:
Tyre recycling plant could use heat to create power (The Chronicle is a paid subscribers site)
31 July 2019 – Tire Technology International:
Tire recycler conducts trials of new thermoelectric device that converts heat to electricity
24 July 2019 – European Rubber Journal:
Australian recycler to test new energy technology
24 July 2019 – Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia:
Tyre recycler conducts first trials of revolutionary new US heat to energy technology
23 July 2019 – Industry Update Manufacturing Magazine:
Tyre Recycler is Testbed for Thermoelectric Technology
22 July 2019 – Tire Business:
Australian tire recycler to test new equipment from U.S.
2 July 2019 – Waste Management World:
OPINION: Tyre Recycling Project In Jeopardy in Queensland, Australia
2 July 2019 – The Chronicle:
Tyre recycling plant hits snag after missing $5m grant (The Chronicle is a paid subscribers site)
26 June 2019 – Bio Fuels Digest:
Australia’s Toowoomba tires-to-fuels plant in jeopardy after Govt no-no’s $5M grant
20 June 2019 – Dubbo Photo News:
Warren solving world’s tyre problem (image kindly supplied by Dubbo Photo News)
19 June 2019 – Industry Update Manufacturing Magazine:
Licence gives green light to tyre recycling plant expansion
19 June 2019 – The Daily Advertiser (Wagga)
Tyre oil coming to make into fuel (pdf kindly supplied by Wagga Daily Advertiser)
3 June 2019 – ABC News Western Plains:
30 May 2019 – The Chronicle
Approval for hi-tech tyre recycling plant at Wellcamp (note that this is a paid subscribers site)
28 May 2019 – Inside Waste:
Tyre recycling facilities to grow Qld and NSW economy, and minimise waste
28 May 2019 – AU Manufacturing:
Tyre Recycler Gains Approval to Expand in NSW, Build in Queensland
27 May 2019 – ABC Radio NSW Statewide Drive:
25 April 2019 – AU Manufacturing, IPWEA:
Green Light for new Tyre Recycling Plant
17 April 2019 – ABC Southern Queensland:
17 April 2019 – Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia:
Environmental green light for tyre recycler’s Toowoomba plant
17 April 2019 – Inside Waste:
Tyre recycler’s Toowoomba plant receives environmental green light
22 February 2019 – Merger Market:
GDT close to raising an additional AUD $20m
2018:
31 October 2018 – ABC Southern Queensland:
Tyre recycling plant in Toowoomba to begin recruiting in January
13 March 2018 – Geelong Advertiser / Queensland University of Technology:
Old tyres could be new fuel source
2 March 2018 – The West Australian / Queensland University of Technology:
Tyre oil could power cars, researchers say
Also covered on Redland City Bulletin, Perth Now, The Times – On The Coast, Stawell Times-News, St George & Sutherland Shire Leader, The Courier, Wollondilly Advertiser, The Advocate, Newcastle Herald, The Standard, Southern Highland News, Yahoo!7 News.
1 March 2018 – Queensland University of Technology:
QUT’s Professor Richard Brown and Dr Tim Bodisco, Deakin University explain how they tested a mix of oil extracted from old tyres and diesel in a diesel-powered vehicle. The oil was extracted by Green Distillation Technologies.
1 March 2018 – Queensland University of Technology:
Professor Richard Brown from QUT’s Biofuel Engine Research Facility and Dr Tim Bodisco from Deakin University tested a fuel made from oil extracted from old tyres mixed with diesel in a diesel-powered vehicle in city conditions. The tyre oil was extracted using a unique process developed by Green Distillation Technologies.
20 Feb 2018 – Tyre and Rubber Recycling:
GDT Look to Establish New Queensland Plant and Foreign Partnerships
2017:
7 Nov 2017 – BioFuels Digest:
Tire trash-to-cash in the Aussie Outback
2016:
28 Nov 2016 – ABC News:
Video: Start-up company breathes new life into old tyres (19 million views on Facebook)
Article: Biofuel discovery: start-up company breathes new life into old tyres
