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Oct
Aircraft tyres on a commercial jet are an amazing example of advanced design and manufacture. After all they have to hit the tarmac and after an initial skid accelerate to 170 miles per hour and safely support the weight of a small office building.
But after six months, or 300 landings, they need replacement.
Although some can find further use on farm equipment or backhoes, most are ground into crumbed rubber for use in playgrounds and sporting fields.
Unfortunately, there is a limit on how much can be used for these purposes. Inevitably a large percentage is burnt as furnace fuel.
You may think an end-of-life tyre must be an old tyre and vice versa.
As you may know, we have created a world-first tyre recycling process to turn end-of-life car tyres into oil, carbon and steel.
Press Release: The construction of the world’s first extra-large tyre recycling plant will start soon with the preparation of conceptual drawings due to be completed shortly, to be closely followed by the commissioning of final drawings and the commencement of construction of the recycling processing plant in Perth, Western Australia expected by February 2018.
Commercial operations and academic researchers alike are discovering that breaking down a vulcanized tire into materials of a high-enough grade to use in new, high-quality car tires is no easy task.
Exhaust emissions from oil from recycled tyres have been found to have thirty per cent less nitrogen oxide, which contributes to photochemical smog and lower particle mass than oil from fossil sources, but almost the same performance, according to research conducted by the Queensland University of Technology.
The development of Australian world first technology to recycle end of life car and truck tyres has been a story in itself, but that is nothing compared with working out the logistics of how to handle those extra-large ‘off the road’ tyres (OTRs) used by heavy duty mining dump trucks, large agricultural tractors and road making equipment.
