December 2023
In This Issue:

  • California TDA Grants
  • Residential Rubberized Asphalt
  • Sustainability Work Plan
  • Cabot’s Evolve Program
  • rCB White Paper
  • Race Car Tire Recycling

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Shredding Art – One Tire At A Time

Renowned artist Chakaia Booker debuts show at Moravian The smell of rubber filled the gallery as attendees marveled and gasped at the giant sculptures created out of scrap tires. The industrial-like odor is from Chakaia Booker’s latest installment at Moravian University’s Payne Gallery. Booker, an internationally renowned artist, has shown at some of America’s finest […]

Georgia’s First Residential Rubber Modified Asphalt Project

Net-zero partnership diverts nearly 1,300 scrap tires from landfills Biophilic community developer Serenbe, in collaboration with The Ray, Baldwin Paving and Liberty Tire, announced a first of its kind construction paving project using Liberty Tire’s SmartMIX™ to pave Serenbe’s newest neighborhood, Overlook. By using SmartMIX™, this paving project diverted nearly 1,300 tires from Georgia’s landfills. […]

Audubon International Welcomes Porous Pave As New Corporate Sponsor

By Dan Shepard Golf Course Trades Audubon International – the environmentally focused non-profit organization offering members numerous certifications and conservation initiatives to protect the areas where we all live, work, and play – is proud to announce Michigan-based sustainable surfacing company Porous Pave as its newest corporate sponsor. Porous Pave joins such longtime Audubon International […]

Tire Giants Bridgestone and Michelin Publish rCB White Paper

Initiative aims to spark industry dialogue around the use of recovered carbon black Bridgestone and Michelin are pushing for increased use of recovered carbon black (rCB) in tire production, according to their joint white paper released last month.  Currently, less than one percent of global carbon black in new tires comes from recycled end-of-life tires, […]

Salvaging Tires and Providing Brilliance and Durability to Rubber

Contributed by Bryan R. Morris, Senior R&D Engineer and Nastausha Hefner, Marketing Manager, Stockmeier Urethanes USA Inc. One of the things that has advanced the use of tire derived crumb rubber is the ability to color the rubber—not only for the aesthetics but to add durability and retain the rubber’s resiliency and other engineered and […]

EU Commission Bans Crumb Rubber Infill

A new Regulation (EU 2023/2055) from the European Union (EU) Commission will prohibit the sale of microplastics and of products to which they have been intentionally added and which release the plastic particles during use. This move addresses concerns about the use of crumb rubber in sports fields, which initially centered on the PAH content. […]

Sustainable Rubber Products Manufacturing

Canadian company Pliteq showcases products at the Rubber Recycling Symposium Recycled rubber products manufacturer Pliteq was among the companies discussing sustainability and innovative approaches to rubber recycling and production, at the 2023 Rubber Recycling Symposium in Halifax, Canada last month. Sustainability is the heart of Pliteq’s operation, transforming more than 6 million end-of-life tires (ELT) […]

Final Report Shows Favorable Results For Michigan’s Rubber-Modified Chip Seal Roads

County road commission adds rubber-modified chip seal to its “toolbox” as preventative maintenance for asphalt pavements. Michigan’s Bay County Road Commission’s (BCRC), 2023 Hot Applied Rubber Modified Chip Seal Project, funded through the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) , included 36.4 lane miles or 18.2 linear miles of rubber- modified chip […]

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Crumb Rubber

Crumb rubber is a versatile tire derived material that adds value to molded rubber products, playgrounds and sport safety surfaces, composites, automotive parts, tires and asphalt modifications.

Tire Derived Fuel

Tire-derived fuel is the largest U.S. scrap tire market. Industrial facilities including cement kilns, pulp and paper mills and electric utilities use tdf as supplemental fuel.

Tire Derived Aggregate

Tire derived aggregate is used as a construction material in many civil engineering applications including lightweight fill, thermal insulation, vibration attenuation, septic system trenches and drainage layers.

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