New tyre cutter to assist with tyre recycling
Those piles of car tyre mountains are set to become history with a new tyre cutter and flat packaging system that has been launched by Symphony recycling. The cutter has the capability of reducing a tyre in just one minute making the recycling process a lot faster and easier. The machine is small enough to fit in a garage and once the tyres have been cut up they can simply and efficiently be flat packed ready for transportation.
Named the SymTyre-S300, this cutter has been developed for Symphony Recycling Technologies Ltd, a subsidiary of Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc, the AIM-listed environmental technology company. They operate in over 90 countries across the globe and Symphony is a world leader in environmental plastics and recycling technologies. Using advance technology the tyres are cut into three parts during one process: the two sidewalls and the flattened tread. It then makes a transverse cut of the tread, turning it into a strip of rubber.
Once dismantled they are then loaded into a ‘stillage’- a purpose designed cage. This leads to considerable space and energy savings in transportation and storage.
Trying to recover material from tyres in a way that is commercially viable has never been easy which in turn contributes to the difficult task of disposing and recycling used tyres. Recycling is an essential part of protecting our environment and with the UK alone producing approximately 55 million waste tyres a year this new invention is very much welcomed.
With the introduction of this new tyre cutter Symphony hope to alleviate the problems of illegal tyre dumping whilst creating more control over the way in which scrap tyres are disposed. The company foresees a high demand for the cutters across the world and the machines will be available on either a sale or rental basis. They also intend to offer a collection service for the flat-packed tyres from garages and tyre depots.
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