Recovery of Material Services

In order to recover the material, the ELTs are fed into special plants in which they are subjected to a granulation process, which reduces the ELT to increasingly small fragments, in several stages, culminating in the production of fine rubber powder with a grain size of less than a millimetre. The process ends with the separation of the granules from the powder according to their size and the separation of the metal and fabric residues normally contained in tyres. The latter are separated in the form of “fluff” which is deposited in a container and then sold to companies that handle this kind of waste. Immediately after the initial shredding phase, some items can already be recovered and reused, for example, in civil buildings. At the end of the entire process, gravity separators and zig-zag separators are used to separate the granules from the fine rubber powder, which is the finest product of the ELT shredding and granulation process.