For the avoidance of doubt PYReco’s pyrolysis process does not produce products derived from tyre or plastics waste, such as tyre bales, shred, crumb or granules. These processes simply delay the eventual and inevitable need for landfill.

 

The PYReco process actually liberates the core materials used to produce the product. The materials will be used directly to process new rubber and plastic products. 

 

For further explanatory information please refer to the Tyre Generic Exposure Scenario, End of Life Tyre Guidance.  Prepared for the European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers Association, Brussels, Belgium.

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Metso Minerals Inc. is a subsidiary of Metso OYJ, a Helsinki SE quoted, global engineering and technology corporation

- With annual sales in excess of EUR 6 billion.

- Market leader in rock and minerals processing, metal recycling, energy, and pulp and paper technology

- 27,000 highly skilled employees

- Operations in more than 50 countries, with production in 19 countries and on every continent

- Serves customers in over 100 countries worldwide

 

Their mining business has over 100 years experience building equipment and plants to process and transform materials, primarily for the mining and industrial minerals industries. Metso’s pyro processing expertise includes:

- A wide range of pyro processing equipment

- A wide range of fuels and feed materials

- Precise thermal and combustion control

- Air pollution control systems

- Over a decade of experience with tyre pyrolysis

 

Metso’s technology will reduce used tyres to PYReco reclaimed carbon black, oil, gas and steel. The first plant will be on Teesside and the oil/gas output alone from the first stage of the plant (2 kilns or calciners) is forecast at a quarter of a million barrels of oil equivalent per annum and the PYReco carbon black 20,000 tonnes per annum. In Phase two these volumes will double and the cost of production will come down.

 

Long‐term Outlook

The Teesside site will eventually accommodate a total of four calciners/kilns and their ancillary equipment. It is anticipated that this installation will be completed within two years of phase one.

 

As the construction of the first plant commences, PYReco will be looking to identify suitable sites for expansion in Europe. Likely candidates include the Low Countries, Italy, France, Germany and Poland with sufficient demand for several plants. Germany is particularly attractive on account of the favourable electricity tariffs.

 

EU statistics confirm that there is capacity for PYReco to establish up to 10 plants across Europe.

 

The long‐term outlook for the tyre manufacturing industry, and therefore tyre disposal, is for continued growth. At the same time and so long as the political pressure on climate‐change is maintained, technological solutions such as PYReco’s will remain at the forefront of the agenda.

 

Growing demand for energy will produce acute problems for the UK in particular, where Government sources are predicting an energy crunch forecast for 2015 onwards. Electricity prices should continue to rise, and the ROC regime or something similar can be expected to operate beyond the time horizon of the BERR’s White Paper.

 

Environmental Impact

Air and water pollution will be minimal. PYReco’s low emission plant makes it one of the cleanest processes in the region. The plant will be compliant with the European Union Waste Incineration Directive (WID).

 

The Pöyry Reports

Pyreco has selected Pöyry Energy (UK) Limited as their ‘owner’s engineer’ for the project on Teesside. Pöyry is a client and technology-oriented, globally operating consulting and engineering firm. It has three core areas of expertise: energy, forest industry and infrastructure & environment. The Group employs 7300 experts in 45 countries.

 

Pyreco has commissioned two reports from Pöyry. The first report commissioned in 2006, to consider the most suitable technology partner for provision of the plant and machinery and another, subsequent report, to examine the most viable treatment for the oil and gas produced by Metso’s pyrolysis equipment. The first report recommended Metso and the second report recommended utilising oil and gas for electricity generation, rather than selling oil and gas to third parties, as a means of ensuring WID compliance. The report coincided with the publication of the DTI’s White Paper on renewable energy, which further supports Pöyry’s recommendation through the proposed enhanced allocation of Renewable Obligation Certificates, for pyrolysis‐based electricity generation Pyreco has adopted Pöyry’s recommendation to use oil and gas for electrical generation and Metso have incorporated this into their site General Arrangements layout plans.