TIRES - Recycled Material

There is so, the need of advanced structures which can dispose, divided and recycling these materials respecting the environment. Thanks to the experience made from our team since the beginning of the 90’s, we managed to realize a “perfect plant”, where security, management and quality are the best characteristics known world-wide. We were born and defined as “Pioneer” of the tyre recycling, our plant is composed of different apparatus made to specifications for the type of processing to do. The machines are conceived for a specific purpose, using special non-abrasive materials, which give long life to the mechanical components of the processing. This means that to place one’s trust in real expert, it is a winning key in the tyre recycling. The tyre today on the market is composed principally of three different components: elastomeric rubber, harmonic steel, textile fibre. The percentages of these components changes according to the type and the model of tyre and according to its application on road. Generally, these products distinctions have the following compositions on percentage:

This pie chart allows to make a further large-scale assessment about the possibilities in the European Union to install new used tyres recovering plants. 23.2% of the material (about 747.500 tons) is even today cramed in provisional or illegal storages. The pie chart of Italy about the present situation shows that like country we are even halfway of the work done in the European area and so we need to act soon enough in making an end of the serious environmental risks.

TIRES S.p.A. 100% ecological recycling process

The activity of TIRES SPA is to build, supply and start up used tyres recycling plants, which produce rubber granulates and powder. TIRES SPA plants are projected in such a manner that all parts subjected to wear are easily interchangeable. The recycling process provided by TIRES SPA is principally constituted of the following phases:

Recycled material application fields

Today the solutions for the rubber granules and powder use are lot and they are directly ruled by the Ministry of Environment. Below, we give indications for that use, which at the moment are in force in the Italian Official Gazette:

Definition of recycled material

Material realized using rubbish comes from the recovery activity of several rubber articles, in the weight limits forced from the technologies employed for the production of the same material. Recycled rubber materials admitted to the inscription in the recycling index. It is to insert, like an example and in a not exhausting way, in the list of the recycled materials, inside the recycling index:

• 1) Homogeneous elastomeric polymers composed of : SBR, NR, BR, IR, CR, CIIR, CSM, EPDM, rubber of silicon, rubber of fluoride, etc..
• 2) Heterogeneous vulcanized elastomeric polymers composed of: heterogeneous materials formed from different polymer matrixes.
• 3) Composite materials elastomeric and thermoplastic polymers-based (rubber and plastic mixtures).
• 4) Modified bitumen with rubber powder (wet technique).
• 5) Bituminous mix with rubber granule (dry technique).
• 6) Mixes of cement modified with rubber granule.
• 7) Mortars and premixeds with rubber powder and granule.
• 8) Premixeds of rubber powder and/or granule with other polymers and/or inerts.
• 9) Gummy mixes of resin of granule and/or powder and polyurethan, polymeric binders and/or other binders.

In these materials, from the point 1 to 9, the polymeric/elastomeric component (rubbish comes from consume) can be present in the form of powder, granules, chips, grinded, mixtures, scratching, etc. Utilization fields of the recycled materials. Building, urban furnishing, road and tram infrastructure, sport complexes, equipment and structures for playing, floors for indoors and outdoors, materials for gardening like rubber mulch, products for building, harbour infrastructure, several industrial products, products for agriculture, products for works of civil engineering.