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16 October 202514 October 2025

Driving Innovation in Chemical Recycling for Complex Material-Waste: Interview with Addible Offers Insights Ahead of the Advanced Recycling Conference 2025

The solution of breaking down materials at the molecular level, unlocks high-value resources, that are difficult to recover using traditional methods

1 September 202526 August 2025

Sustainable natural rubber: GNF publishes factsheet with recommendations for action

Processing companies get some concrete ways to make their natural rubber supply chains more sustainable and resilient

7 March 20253 March 2025

Orion S.A. signs supply agreement for tire pyrolysis oil with Contec S.A.

The agreement with Warsaw, Poland-based Contec further enables Orion to diversify its sources of tire pyrolysis oil, commonly known as TPO

5 March 20251 March 2025

LANXESS: Longer-lasting tires through sustainable antioxidant

LANXESS’ new rubber additive Vulkanox HS Scopeblue supports tire manufacturers in producing more sustainable, longer-lasting tires and in achieving their sustainability goals

4 February 202530 January 2025

Biesterfeld expands partnership with DEUREX AG – Extended distribution rights for BIOMERE® and synthesis waxes throughout Europe

Since June last year, Biesterfeld has had the distribution rights for the biodegradable waxes BIOMERE® and the synthetic polyethylene waxes DEUREX® for the regions DACH, Italy and France

23 January 202521 January 2025

Interface Unveils First-Ever Carbon Negative Rubber Flooring Prototype

Latest Innovation Demonstrates Company’s ‘All In’ Strategy to Store More Carbon Across Full Product Portfolio

22 January 202520 January 2025

E-Mobility: Forecast Model for Tire Abrasion of Delivery Vehicles

Scientists from KIT and Fraunhofer ITWM Investigate the Factors Influencing Tire Wear on Electrified Vehicles

20 December 202416 December 2024

Development of sustainable and hypoallergenic biorubber, biolatex and other bioproducts from new crop Taraxacum kok-saghyz (TKS)

TKS contains up to 24% biolatex/biorubber, 40% inulin and 29% proteins, it takes 4 months to grow in moderate climates and its crop value is ~$31K/acre

5 November 202429 October 2024

DOE Grant Supports Bridgestone Innovation for Non-fossil-based Synthetic Rubber

Bridgestone will design, build and operate a pilot plant that will advance an innovative, potentially more sustainable and cost-effective approach to obtaining butadiene from ethanol

4 October 202427 September 2024

Improved process should accelerate tire recycling

A team of researchers at Evonik has now made a key step forward with a process that could make it possible to use up to four times as much recycled rubber in new tires

CDL Ecotrain to debut at City Square Mall – Singapore’s first decomissioned SMRT train cabin transformed into a first-of-its-kind climate education hub

City Developments Limited (CDL) will be launching the CDL EcoTrain towards the end of 2024 – Singapore’s first repurposed SMRT train cabin for sustainability education and awareness

19 March 202413 March 2024

Michelin joins Antin and Enviro to announce the construction of first end of life tire-recycling plant

The project will be based on Enviro’s unique pyrolysis technology with the ability to extract raw materials from multi-component products

12 January 20245 January 2024

OMV and Synthos sign MoU to cooperate on sustainability, including the supply of sustainable butadiene for synthetic rubber

Sustainable butadiene will be produced in the steam cracker at the Burghausen refinery in Germany, which received full ISCC PLUS certification in March 2022

23 November 202317 November 2023

REMONDIS and Pyrum Innovations AG sign a declaration of intent and start planning a joint recycling plant in Bremen

The plant is supposed to have a recycling capacity of 20,000 tons of old tires per year, from which the raw material carbon black will be recovered

7 June 20232 June 2023

AIMPLAS is working on using end-of-life tyres to create more sustainable materials with improved properties for construction

The group is working within the RECICAUTXU Project, which focuses on developing industrial processes to obtain a new generation of composite materials loaded with devulcanized rubber particles from end-of-life tyres (ELTs)

23 May 202317 May 2023

UPM Biochemicals further expands distribution network for its new sustainable Renewable Functional Fillers (RFF)

UPM Biochemicals announced today that it has further expanded its distribution network in Europe and Turkey for its UPM BioMotion™ Renewable Functional Fillers (RFF), an innovative new category of bio-based products

17 May 202311 May 2023

Borealis launches portfolio of circular plastomers and elastomers based on renewable feedstock

The polyolefine manufacturer to introduce a new product line to meet customer demand for circular solutions: the Bornewables™ line of Queo

14 March 20239 March 2023

Sustainability Gains More Traction in 2023 through Firestone

IndyCar to use sustainable tires made from guayule desert shrub

17 February 202314 February 2023

We should pay more attention to rubber recycling

If we should start the recycling process with milling the tyre, we would end up with a fairly untreatable mixture of compounds

19 January 202313 January 2023

AFRL teams with industry to expand alternative natural rubber supply

They paired up with BioMADE, Farmed Materials and Goodyear to plant and harvest Kok-saghyz, a species of dandelion commonly known as TK, as a viable domestic source of natural rubber

13 January 202310 January 2023

Goodyear unveils 90% sustainable-material demonstration tire, approved for road use

Shares plans to produce and sell a tire with up to 70% sustainable-material content in 2023

12 December 20226 December 2022

LanzaTech and Sumitomo Riko Partner to Create Substitute for Natural Rubber Production

LanzaTech and Sumitomo Riko Company Limited entered into a joint-development agreement to reuse rubber, resin and urethane waste for the production of a key chemical intermediate, isoprene

10 November 20227 November 2022

Burning or recycling? EU weighs options on used tyres

Draft EU rules could see millions of tyres shipped outside of Europe for dumping or incineration, recyclers warn

7 November 20222 November 2022

Renewable cellulose-based fillers

Empa and the Datwyler Schweiz AG collaborated as part of an Innosuisse project, and successfully developed a process that brought together the worlds of cellulose and rubbers

26 October 202225 October 2022

More than just chemical recycling – Advanced recycling improves the synergies in the recycling sector

Recent developments in markets and policy clearly indicate a transformation and long-lasting change in the circular economy of plastics

30 August 202224 August 2022

Concrete using recycled tyre rubber hits the road to a circular economy

Engineers have managed to replace 100% of conventional aggregates in concrete – such as gravel and crushed rock – with rubber from discarded tyres that meets building codes, promising a boost for the circular economy

2 August 202227 July 2022

Tyre Recycling Solutions (TRS) choose BUSS Compounding Technology to manufacture performance materials from used tires

The two companies are collaborating closely to expand the product platform globally and set up more compounding facilities inside the TRS license framework

4 July 202229 June 2022

Evonik launches sustainable liquid polybutadienes with POLYVEST® eCO

With POLYVEST® eCO, Evonik’s Coating & Adhesive Resins business line has launched a new range of sustainable liquid polybutadienes

7 June 202230 May 2022

Sunsmart streets using recycled rubber last twice as long

Rubber from used tyres acts like sunscreen for roads and halves the rate of sun damage when mixed with bitumen, new research has found

20 May 202221 November 2022

Asahi Kasei to start providing carbon footprint data

Green Transformation is positioned as one of the key areas for strengthening the management foundation, and the Group is advancing reductions of its own GHG emissions as well

20 April 202213 April 2022

New Latitude 5000 Series Are Dell’s Most Sustainable Laptops Yet*

New packaging is made from 100% recycled or renewable materials and is 100% recyclable

13 April 202212 April 2022

Bridgestone Awarded Department of Energy Grant to Advance Guayule Natural Rubber Research

The grant will accelerate the company’s efforts to optimize guayule shrubs for increased rubber content, producing higher-yielding crops

24 March 202223 March 2022

Giving new life to end-of-life tyres

Taking a major step towards a more sustainable tyre industry, an EU-funded project has produced the world’s first sustainable carbon black (sCB) material in a truly circular process

9 March 20224 March 2022

Woodly Appoints Erteco as New Distributor in Various European Countries

Erteco Rubber & Plastics AB has been appointed as the distributor of Woodly® material in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland

2 March 202225 February 2022

Bridgestone and ENEOS Launch Joint Project Focused on Producing Tire Raw Materials from Used Tires

The project aims to contribute to the realization of a more sustainable society, adopted as part of the Green Innovation Fund

22 February 202217 February 2022

Lummus and Synthos Advance Bio-Butadiene Technology Development to Produce Sustainable Rubber

Technology will use renewable bio-derived ethanol feedstock to produce sustainable rubber for modern mobility

18 January 202213 January 2022

Goodyear develops 70% sustainable-material tire

The big tire-producer is in significant progression in the development of a 100 percent renewable and sustainable tire until 2030

7 January 20224 January 2022

Researchers show how synthetic rubber raw material can be degraded

Researchers have reported a potentially significant advance with the development of a process for the enzymatic degradation of synthetic polyisoprene rubber

4 October 202129 September 2021

MICHELIN’s airless tire, tested and approved!

Michelin to make tyres containing recycled plastic by 2024 - MICHELIN Uptis, the airless prototype tire was fitted to the e-Mini at the Munich Motor Show, was unanimously approved. The proof on video!

30 September 202129 September 2021

Team of Continental, Fraunhofer IME and the University of Münster Nominated for Federal President’s Award

“Sustainable tires from dandelions – innovations from biology, technology and agriculture” joint research project shows that a new, alternative raw material supply is possible

16 September 202113 September 2021

Agilyx and Kumho Petrochemical Assess a Chemical Recycling Facility to produce raw material for tires out of post-use plastic

Both companies to produce pure styrene from post-use polystyrene to be used as a virgin equivalent raw material to produce solution styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR) for tires

3 August 20219 September 2021

Pyrolyseanlage zum Reifen-Recycling entsteht in Osnabrück

Die Anlage mit dem Namen „Pieswerk“ soll mittels eines speziellen thermochemischen Verfahrens einen wichtigen Beitrag zu mehr Nachhaltigkeit und Umweltschutz leisten

11 May 202118 June 2021

Trinseo and ETB to Collaborate on Development of Bio-Based 1,3 Butadiene

Companies to launch feasibility study for new pilot plant in Europe

16 November 20209 September 2021

5 Minutes With… Maria Moræus Hanssen, Chairperson of the Board of Wastefront

“The investors may remain hesitant, but when “Big Oil” redirects its industrial and organisational strengths towards renewable energy, the outcome will be impressive.”

14 October 20209 September 2021

NewAge® Industries Announces New Plan to Recycle Silicone Tubing Waste

Adds Another Green Project to Its Sustainability Portfolio

27 January 202022 January 2020

Continental Opens “Taraxagum Lab Anklam” Research Laboratory for Dandelion Rubber

Tire manufacturer is planning to introduce the raw material into serial production within ten years

16 July 201816 July 2018

It’s not a mistake, French tyre giant looks to wood products to replace oil

Michelin is driving the wooden wedge as it also works towards a future where 3D printing of rubber will allow cars to run on a single set of tyres for a lifetime

2 July 201828 June 2018

ARLANXEO at DKT 2018: Synthetic rubber for top performances in sports

Everything’s about sports for Arlanxeo at DKT. The rubber manufacturer will present its wide range of products relating to soccer, running, diving, etc.

13 March 201823 March 2018

Project sheet Takowind 2

Breeding, cultivation and exploitation of Russian dandelion (Taraxacum koksaghyz)

9 January 201828 December 2017

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