Pyrolyx carbon black process patented in US and China
ERJ staff report (TP)
Munich, Germany – Pyrolyx AG, which has developed the first green, sustainable process for the recovery of high-quality, marketable carbon black from end-of-life tires, announced that its method has been successfully patented for the US and Chinese markets.
The patent protecting Pyolyx AG’s core technology has been registered by the patent authority in the USA under number 13/498,032 and by the Chinese patent authority under number 2009801626128.
Moreover, Pyrolyx fully expects its “environmentally friendly and currently unique” technology to be patented in other countries during the course of 2014.
At present the company is completing the engineering process for the construction of the first commercial Pyrolyx plant in Germany.
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