The technical committee

Since September 2020, Michelin led the BlackCycle project to deal with an upcycling ambition, targeting the creation of a circular economy of the end-of-life tire (ELT) into technical applications within the tire industry by producing highly technical secondary raw materials (SRMs) from ELTs. These SRMs will be used to develop new ranges of passenger car and truck tires, which will be sold commercially in European and global markets.

At the middle of June 2022, the 12 partners from 5 different countries (Orion, Ineris, Quantis, Icamcyl, Aliapur, CSIC, CPERI/CERTH, Sisener, Pyrum, Estato, Hera, and Axelera) met for a technical meeting. For two days, they discussed intensively the latest results of the project.

The technical committee of the project took place in Mettlach in Germany. Mettlach is a municipality in the district Merzig-Wadern, in Saarland, situated on the river Saar.

This meeting objective was to discuss the latest results of the project. German hosts were very attentive and make possible to visit Pyrum Plants.

The different technical parts of the projects were discussed concerning :

• Oil refining and valorisation
• Pyrolysis optimization
• Tyre selection
• Sustainable   carbon black
• Sustainability, technico-economic, health and safety assessment
• Sustainable tyre performance assessment
• And how to Go to market

The dissemination and valorisation of the project were also discussed and the future workshop that will be hold in November in Zaragoza has been highlighted.