28 Feb 2024
Russian energy major to use rubber crumbs from waste tires in production of new tires
Moscow – Russian energy group Tatneft is creating a network of sites for the collection and recycling of end-of-life tires across 17 cities in the country.
The cities will include St. Petersburg, Orekhovo-Zuevo, Podolsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Perm, Leninogorsk, Nizhnekamsk, Samara, Volgograd, Zernograd, Kemerovo, Voronezh, Chelyabinsk, Tatneft announced 8 Feb.
To date, the group said it has already established processing capacities in Leninogorsk, Zernograd and Kemerovo.
The recycling sites will include grinding lines to reduce waste tires to ‘chips’ and a further line to process the chips to rubber crumbs.
The rubber crumb will then serve as “the feedstock for isoprene rubber”, a component for the production of sustainable tires.
The projects will create 1,500 jobs across Russia, and will help Tatneft move towards circularity as one of its environmental targets.
The group said it is studying the processing and consumption of waste as raw materials for new products.
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