Tasmania to build new USD 6.2 million tyre recycling facility

Green Distillation Technologies (GDT) plans to begin construction of an End of Life (ELT) tyre recycling facility in Langford, Tasmania. The construction works of $6.2 million plant is expected to commence in November this year.

CANBERRA (Scrap Monster): Melbourne, Australia-based Green Distillation Technologies (GDT) will construct a massive new tyre recycling facility in the adjacent island of Tasmania. The construction of the US $ 6.2 million plant is expected to begin this November. The plant operations are expected to commence next summer.

The new plant is estimated to possess a processing capability of nearly 658,000 car and truck tyres every year. The plant will make use of GDT’s proprietary destructive distillation technology which is capable of recycling end‐of‐life car and truck tyres into saleable commodities of carbon, oil and steel. The facility will convert end-of-life tyres (ELTs) into 40% carbon, 35% oil and 15% steel by weight.

GDT’s proprietary technology uses controlled heat to reduce whole tyres to their constituent elements which then reform into oils which are distilled and collected. Carbon is delivered up in powder form of high purity. The emission-free technology also collects steel from ELTs. Also, GDT process is the only process available in the country that remanufactures the rubber content of the ELT into a different energy form.

According to newspaper reports, the site will be set up in Langford, which is home to around 1.3 million stockpiled used tyres. Estimates indicate that nearly 50,000 used tyres are generated in Tasmania every year.

The company is also engaged in US$ 5.8 million worth of upgrades at its Warren, New South Wales tyre recycling plant. Post upgrade, the site will have an annual processing capability of around 19,000 tonnes. It is estimated that 24 million ELTs are generated in Australia every year. GDT hinted that the capacity of the new Tasmanian Langfdord facility will be almost equivalent to that of the upgraded Australian facility.