A tyre (or tire) is a ring-shaped covering designed to fit around the rim of a wheel so as to provide protection and better vehicle performance. The earliest tyres had bands of iron or steel fitted on ...

This article is based on a presentation by Dr. Amirkhanian at the European Conference on Tyre Recycling held 25-27 March 2015 in Brussels. There are approximately 1.5 billion tyres sold around the ...

Postdoctoral Fellow at Stellenbosch University REDISA waste tyres research programme, Stellenbosch University There are serious hazards associated with stockpiling used tyres, such as uncontrollable ...

Demolition and haulage company 777 Group has moved further into the tyre recycling market with the official launch of new technology capable of removing 100% of metal from used tyres. The company, ...

Australian scientists might have found a way out of the huge environmental burden posed by old tyres. The new technology seems to offer a cost-effective and environmentally friendly solution for ...

Production of natural rubber has claimed over 4 million hectares of forest in south-east Asia since 1993 according to a recent study. This destruction of tropical forest for rubber plantations is ...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - More than 42 million old vehicle tyres dumped in Kuwait's sands have started to be recycled, as the Gulf state tackles a waste problem that created one of the world's largest tyre ...

If you were to string together the more than 300,000,000 waste tyres accumulated annually in Europe, you would travel around the entire world. Tyre recyclers take a major waste challenge and turn it ...

Vanderbijlpark-based machine building company Nicaud Trading has developed a tyre-recycling shredder to process and recycle waste off-the-road (OTR) tyres for the local mining industry. A project in ...