Tyre ‘freeze’ recycle plant opens
July 25, 2007
About 9,000 car tyres a year will be recycled at a new £4m plant. The owners of TyreGenics at Baglan, Neath Port Talbot, say it will reprocess over 30,000 tonnes of used tyres each year into rubber “crumb”.
It uses liquid nitrogen to freeze tyres until brittle, then smashes them into tiny pieces for use as sports pitches and rubber flooring.
The plant, which is creating 25 jobs, is said by the company to be among the most advanced of its kind in the world.
The owners claim it already has contracts in place to sell 90% of the plant’s “crumb” product.
Mark Wyatt, of TyreGenics UK, said the volume of tyres being recycled was the equivalent of all the tyres produced in Wales annually.
- Full story on the BBC’s online news website
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