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Farrel Pomini, which designs and manufactures continuous compounding solutions, is working with UK company WF Recycle Tech which has a patented pyrolysis system for recycling EOLT. At a display at NPE 2024, Farrel Pomini’s equipment was shown as the pre-processor in the primary stage of the pyrolysis process to heat and melt the tyre rubber (it can also process plastic waste) before the second stage reactor. The output is 50% pyrolysis oil, 10% gas (which is used to generate electricity for the process) and 40% recovered carbon black (rCB). A key benefit of this system is its modularity, which makes it suitable for the smaller, more regional nature of EOLT processing. South Korean carbon black producer LD Carbon


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a similar venture. “In our ChemCycling project, our technology partners use pyrolysis to extract pyrolysis oil from mixed plastic waste or EOLT,” said Birgit Hellmann, Global Communications Chemical Recycling, BASF. “We feed the pyrolysis oil into BASF Verbund and manufacture new products from it using the mass balance principle. Our Ccycled portfolio now comprises around 240 products, which our customers use for applications from food packaging and transport cases for temperature-sensitive drugs to high-performance plastics for the automotive industry.” In order to expand its portfolio of Ccycled


products, BASF signed a new co-operation agreement with Pyrum last year which included a conditional loan of €25m which will be used to finance the planning, development, and construc- tion of at least three new Pyrum plants, each with a capacity of 20,000 tonnes/yr of EOLT.


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recently closed a $28m Series C funding round led by Woven Capital, Toyota’s growth fund. The investment will be used to scale operations to recycle EOLT and other material from end-of-life vehicles into recovered carbon black and pyrolysis oil, which can be used to create new automotive parts. The company’s plant in Gimcheon, South Korea, has a current capacity of over 7,000 tonnes/ yr of recycled carbon black. LD Carbon has also secured a 10-year supply agreement with SK Incheon Petrochemicals for its tyre pyrolysis oil and it is investing in the construction of what is said to be Asia’s largest tyre pyrolysis plant in Dangjin City, Chungcheongnam-do, with completion expected later this year. “LD Carbon is solving a tough chemistry


problem that continues to challenge manufacturers across the automotive supply chain as they face increasing pressure to embrace sustainability goals,” said Prashant Bothra, Woven Capital principal who is joining the LD Carbon board. He said the company is scaling its proven technology to maximise productivity and reduce the cost of recycled carbon black. “With regulatory and corporate tailwinds, a strong sales pipeline, and a first-mover advantage in Asia, we believe LD Carbon is well-positioned to play an important role in the sustainable future,” he said.


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