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Enter the Future: BKT to become an OTR one-stop shop

Company News, Product News

A fortnight ago, BKT announced its aim of increasing production by around 67% and achieving an annual turnover of US$2 billion in 3 years. The company’s Bhuj facility in western India is key to these plans and will soon manufacture numerous new products, including off-highway truck tyres, agro-forestry radials, tracks and an expanded mining tyre portfolio. BKT shares news of these and other plans.

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  1. BKT: 67% more production, $2 billion turnover in 3 years
  2. BKT preparing for 51-inch giant tyre production at $500 million plant
  3. Pre-launch testing for BKT’s 57” rigid dump truck tyre
  4. BKT opens India R&D centre
3rd March 2023/1 Comment/by Stephen

LD Carbon closing $250 million contract with South Korean oil firm

International News

LD Carbon is on the brink of closing a 10-year tyre pyrolysis oil contract with a South Korean oil firm. Tyres & Accessories understands that the 10-year deal will be worth around $25 million a year, making the whole contract worth around $250 million.

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  1. Orion completes Korea Carbon Black plant
  2. Cooking up better tyre pyrolysis oil compounds
  3. Orion Engineered Carbons launches plant-derived carbon black aimed at tyre treads
  4. SK Incheon Petrochem partnering LD Carbon tyre-derived oil project
23rd February 2023/by Chris

BKT completes carbon black, power plant projects

Company News

Balkrishna Industries Ltd. has completed a project to increase carbon black capacity in Bhuj, India and set up a new power plant at the site. It says both the 55,000 tonnes per annum carbon black capacity project and the power plant project were concluded on 31 December 2022.

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  1. BKT: Bhuj carbon black plant to ‘better ensure raw material qualities’
  2. Balkrishna to build carbon black plant
  3. Early 2016 opening for BKT R&D centre
  4. BKT preparing for 51-inch giant tyre production at $500 million plant
3rd January 2023/by Stephen

Bridgestone & Michelin: Annual rCB market may reach million tonnes by 2030

Company News

During the Smithers Recovered Carbon Black conference, which took place in Berlin in November, Bridgestone and Michelin jointly shared the results of efforts to develop a global standard to increase the utilisation of recovered carbon black in tyres. Click here to read or download Bridgestone and Michelin’s rCB grades and specifications proposal presentation.

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  1. Enviro CEO joins post-Michelin and Bridgestone rCB presentation panel
  2. Recovered carbon black: Michelin & Bridgestone launching joint initiative
  3. Pyrolysis technology: Michelin partnering with Enviro
  4. New Michelin MotoE tyre features more Enviro recovered carbon black
22nd December 2022/by Stephen

Murfitts partners with ETIA to produce rCB for tyre makers

Company News

Tyre recycling and reprocessing specialist Murfitts Industries announced today its intention to form a “unique partnership” with French engineering group ETIA. The aim of this partnership is to deliver commercial-scale solutions for recycling end-of-life tyres to recover their raw material and energy content.

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  1. ETEL announces senior promotions, new management team
  2. Kwik Fit owner Itochu prepares for sale scenario
  3. Merityre, Bridgestone, Stapleton’s scoop big Tyre Industry Awards 2021
  4. Kwik-Fit and Stapleton’s owner ETEL buys leading tyre recycling firm Murfitts
20th December 2022/by Stephen

Birla Carbon celebrates a decade of sustainability reporting

International News
Birla Carbon

Birla Carbon has been reporting on Sustainability since 2013. As a way of marking 10 years of sustainability reporting, the carbon black supplier has produced a webpage titled “Decade of Sustainability” on the Birla Carbon website.

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  1. Tyre industry suppliers Nynas, Cabot and Evonik amongst top EcoVadis ratings
  2. Birla Carbon closes US$750 million Sustainability Linked Loan
  3. Birla Carbon rated Platinum by EcoVadis for sustainable business practices
  4. Birla Carbon announces EMEA price increase
21st November 2022/by Chris

Kal Tire & Mitsui partnering on mining tyre recycling

Company News, International News

To meet growing demand for mining tyre recycling and recycled rubber products, specifically carbon black and rCB, Kal Tire’s Mining Tire Group and Mitsui & Co. have entered into a joint venture commercialise the Kal Tire thermal conversion recycling facility in Chile from early 2023. Activities there will act as a “foundation” as the venture pursues “opportunities to bring OTR tyre recycling solutions to mining regions around the world.”

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  1. Kal Tire nears full start-up of OTR tyre recycling facility in Chile
  2. Kal Tire acquires Tyre Corporation’s South Africa business
  3. Salvadori supplying downsizing system to Michelin/Enviro recycling plant
  4. Sustainable raw materials: Liberty deal supporting Bolder’s growth
13th September 2022/by Stephen

Birla Carbon launches virtual showroom

Company News

Anyone wanting to learn more about carbon black and its many applications can now do so at the new Birla Carbon virtual showroom. Claimed as an industry first, the site offers a virtual reality experience that takes viewers through the intricate uses of each part of a car and employs an immersive experience to showcase how carbon black can make a difference to the solutions it is part of. Birla Carbon aims for the virtual showroom to be a “one-stop shop experience for the entire value chain of carbon black solutions.”

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  1. Birla Carbon receives IATF certification across all factories
  2. Birla Carbon to raise carbon black prices 9%
  3. Tyre industry suppliers Nynas, Cabot and Evonik amongst top EcoVadis ratings
  4. Birla Carbon announces EMEA price increase
26th July 2022/by Stephen

Hankook expects record European results in 2022

Company News, International News
Tyre Industry Publications Ltd

During the recent Tire Cologne event, Tyres & Accessories met with Hankook Europe’s top management including president and chief operating officer Sanghoon Lee; Dietmar Olbrich, vice president of marketing and sales at Hankook Germany; Byung Ryong Lee, vice president of marketing strategy in Europe; Guy Heywood, vice president sales, marketing and business strategy for truck and bus tyres in Europe; vice president of European Technical Centre, Klaus Krause; Massimo Cialone, chief specialist for compounding and materials.

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  1. Bridgestone EMIA resuming manufacturing
  2. Continental AG measures ‘encouraging’, but R&D budgets and European tyre factories could be cut – analysts
  3. Jaguar to be 100% electric vehicle marque by 2025
  4. Interview: Continental’s Tires head Christian Kötz on tyres, sensors and sustainability
14th July 2022/by Chris

Birla Carbon rated Platinum by EcoVadis for sustainable business practices

Company News

Birla Carbon has been awarded a Platinum level rating by EcoVadis for sustainability. This recognition confirms Birla Carbon’s position as an industry leader in advanced sustainability practices and reporting and places it in the top 1 per cent of companies rated by EcoVadis. The rating was provided after reviewing Birla Carbon’s sustainability practices in its recently published ninth sustainability report, Driving Circularity.

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  1. Tyre industry suppliers Nynas, Cabot and Evonik amongst top EcoVadis ratings
  2. Birla Carbon receives IATF certification across all factories
  3. Birla Carbon closes US$750 million Sustainability Linked Loan
  4. Birla Carbon announces EMEA price increase
13th May 2022/by Chris

Carlton Forest heats up cold testing of tyre pyrolysis plant

UK News
Carlton Forest

Carlton Forest reports that it has begun a cold testing phase at what it refers to as “the UK’s first continuous pyrolysis plant” located at the company’s Worksop site. That announcement, which was published on 13 May 2022, will be followed by “full operation launch” later in May.

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  1. Enso Tyres becomes a Wastefront recovered carbon black customer
  2. Enviro reports ‘Sharp increase in interest’ in rCB due to war in Ukraine
  3. Pyrolyx withdraws from Australian and German stock markets
  4. Klean CEO speaking on recovered carbon black at European Carbon Black Summit
13th May 2022/by Chris

New Michelin MotoE tyre features more Enviro recovered carbon black

Company News, International News
Michelin

Michelin has produced a new version of its motorcycle racing tyre with an even higher share of environmentally sustainable material ahead of the MotoE World Cup motorcycle racing series. This is the fourth season of the MotoE World Cup electric motorcycles racing series.

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  1. UK facility to feature early in Scandinavian Enviro Systems’ global rollout
  2. Enviro reports ‘Sharp increase in interest’ in rCB due to war in Ukraine
  3. Enviro decides on site for Swedish recycling plant
  4. Enviro CEO joins post-Michelin and Bridgestone rCB presentation panel
10th May 2022/by Chris

Michelin: Q1 sales up 19% to 6.5 billion euros

Company News, International News
Michelin; Jefferies

Michelin Group has reported that its first quarter 2022 sales amounted to 6.5 billion euros, a 19 per cent increase on the first quarter of 2021. According to the company, price increases and strengthening replacement demand helped it offset headwinds including operation disruptions and inflationary pressures exacerbated by the conflict in Ukraine plus the resurgence of Covid-19 in China.

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  1. Pirelli reports 20% 1Q sales decline
  2. Michelin Germany integrates Camso sales team under Reifenwerke
  3. Back in line with 2019 levels: Michelin publishes full-year 2021 results
  4. Enviro reports ‘Sharp increase in interest’ in rCB due to war in Ukraine
27th April 2022/by Chris

Synthos: Ukraine war & EU regulations driving interest in recovered materials

Company News

With its acquisition of Trinseo’s rubber production plants in Schkopau, Germany late last year, Polish firm Synthos has also taken on the minority stake in Swiss start-up Tyre Recycling Solutions (TRS) that Trinseo held. It reports that its collaboration with TRS is now “progressing according to plan.”

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  1. Trinseo investing in, begins partnership with Tyre Recycling Solutions
  2. Enviro reports ‘Sharp increase in interest’ in rCB due to war in Ukraine
  3. Black Bear Carbon preparing to go back on-stream prior to technology’s roll-out
  4. Pyrolyx files for insolvency in Germany
14th April 2022/by Stephen

Black Bear visits flagship plant site with potential investor

Company News

Following the fire that destroyed its first pilot plant in February 2019 and hurled the company into operational and financial difficulties, in May 2021 Black Bear Carbon announced plans to build a new flagship plant within the Chemelot Industrial Park in Limburg, the Netherlands. The company took a further step towards realising its plan on 23 March when visiting the Chemelot site with potential investor NEOS Direct Lending.

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  1. Sustainable carbon black: Black Bear, Helm sign MoU
  2. Black Bear Carbon preparing to go back on-stream prior to technology’s roll-out
  3. Partnership to aid rollout of Black Bear carbon black recovery technology
  4. Pyrolyx files for insolvency in Germany
30th March 2022/by Stephen
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