Carbon Clean Tech

An example of a company that is producing carbon black that has been recovered from waste tyres on a commercial scale is Carbon Clean Tech AG, which has had an industrial-scale plant operating since 2012. In a paper delivered to the Tire Technology 2014 conference in Cologne, Yon [8] of Carbon Clean Tech AG explained the economic and ecological rationales of the process as being ... 

In the same presentation. Yon explained that a large number of companies (>50) had investigated the possibility of reclaiming carbon black from tyres, but that very few had continuously produced any commercial product for the market place. Also, the fact that recovered carbon black (or alternative carbon black as Carbon Clean Tech AG refer to it) is not like conventional carbon black was underlined due to the fact that it is derived from a mixture of rubber tyres, containing a mixture of carbon blacks, the structures of which will have been altered in service, and that the tyres contain a large number of other chemicals that influence the surface properties of the recovered black. 

Holmes, A.J., Vanderwielen, A.J., Total organic carbon method for aspirin cleaning validation. PDA JPharm Sci Tech, 51 (4), July-Aug 1997. 

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