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Hanwa Invests in Thailand’s Tire Pyrolysis Recycling Business

on July 22, 2025 in Materials

Hanwa has acquired through its Thai subsidiary a stake in Pyro Energie, a tire pyrolysis recycling business in Thailand. Hanwa is a major Japanese trading company handling steel, food, and chemicals. The group already supplies tire chips, produced by shredding waste tires, as low-environmental-impact energy to Japanese companies. Overseas, pyrolysis is a prevalent recycling method, generating decomposition oil and carbon...

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Mitsubishi Chemical Eyes Making Recycled Carbon Black From Used Tires

on September 4, 2024 in Products

Mitsubishi Chemical has begun studying the chemical recycling of used tires in the coke ovens at its Kagawa Plant in Sakaide City, aiming to sell several thousand tons of carbon black per year in fiscal 2025 and several tens of thousands of tons per year in fiscal 2030, both of which are recyclable resources. As the tire industry accelerates its...

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Eneos Materials Advances Development of World’s First Battery Made from Recycled Tires

on July 30, 2024 in Industry, Innovation

Eighteen member companies of the Tire Battery Project, including Eneos Materials, have been developing the world’s first next-generation storage battery, the Tire Battery, which is created by recycling used tires. After 12 years of development and improvement, the companies will now begin demonstration testing of stationary products, namely street lights, equipped with the Tire Battery. The demonstration test will be...

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Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration to Promote Automotive Recycling

on April 22, 2024 in Industry

The “Technology Demonstration of Arteriovenous Integrated Process for ELV (End-of-Life Vehicle) Automatic Precision Dismantling as a Starting Point” project, which is being promoted by Denso, River, DIC, UACJ, Kinjo Sangyo, Kyushu Metal Industry, Sumitomo Chemical, Daido Steel, Toray Industries, Toyoda Gosei, Toyota Boshoku, Nomura Research Institute, Furukawa Electric, Matec, Mitsui Chemicals, Waseda University, and other companies and corporations, has been...

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Toyoda Gosei Leverages Sustainable Brand Re-S for Collaboration With Beams Japan

on July 28, 2022 in Industry, Products

Toyoda Gosei has launched two new products as a collaboration between its sustainable product brand Re-S and partner Beams Japan. The products – both made out of recycled airbag fabric – are a vest with features appropriate for emergencies and a wrap that can be used as emergency headgear. Toyoda Gosei has already been offering other products under its Re-S...

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Bridgestone Partners With Eneos to Establish Chemical Recycling Technology for Used Tires

on March 1, 2022 in Industry

Bridgestone Corp. (TYO:5108) has joined with oil refinery and petroleum product seller Eneos Corp. for a new project. The agreement here will see these companies target social implementation for chemical recycling technologies that enable the precise pyrolysis of used tires, which would then contribute to the sustainability visions of both companies. Specifically, Bridgestone’s vision is to continue providing social value...

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