Following is a selection of recent media articles about Green Distillation Technologies from across the web:
2020:
9 September 2020 – Tyre & Rubber Recycling
GDT Looks at Hydrogen Production
9 September 2020 – Traction News:
Australian tire recycler can turn old tires into hydrogen
September 2020 – Diesel News:
Turning Old Tyres Into Hydrogen
The first paragraph of this story has lost a little in the retelling of the media release, but it’s still good to see it being published in Diesel News and telling their readers about Green Distillation Technologies.
31 August 2020 – Australasian Paint and Panel:
MTAQ supports waste legislation
July 2020 – Tyre Business Australia Journal:
Australian Tyre Recycler Looks to Expand Into Europe
The GDT European expansion story is in a prominent position in this issue on page 7, a right hand page as you flip through the magazine.
30 July 2020 – Waste Management World:
End-of-Life Tyres Are Ready for a New Recycling Hero
9 July 2020 – Recycling Today Global:
Australian Green Distillation Technologies seeks to expand into Europe
8 July 2020 – Recycling International:
Australian tyre recycling expert seeks new frontiers
7 July 2020 – Traction News:
Australian tire recycler plans to expand into the European market
16 June 2020 – Industry Update Manufacturing Magazine:
3 June 2020 – Traction News:
Tire recycler, GDT sees international growth despite COVID-19 pandemic
29 April 2020 – AU Manufacturing:
More GDT tyre plants to be built internationally
20 April 2020 – Tyre and Rubber Recycling:
GTD Progressing in the US Market
20 April 2020 – Traction News:
US tire recycling company to increase number of proposed new plants
17 April 2020 – Driven Media:
Tyre (Tire) recycling: An Australian solution that is cheap and effective without creating pollution
This is an interview with Green Distillation Technologies’ Trevor Bayley conducted by David Brown from Driven Media.
9 April 2020 – Toowoomba Chronicle:
Company re-affirms plan for local tyre recycling plant (The Chronicle is a paid subscribers site)
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
