Jean-Paul Bouysset has had a long and distinguished career in the rubber industry, starting out with Phillips Petroleum but then started working with carbon black in 1979 with Continental Carbon. There followed 10 years with Columbian Chemicals and then 11 years as the owner/ manager of DZS France (CDMA Group) Paris. Since 2004 Bouysset has been involved with Phenix Technologies and has been a senior consultant on tyre recycling. For the greater part of the existence of the European Tyre Recycling Association, Bouysset has been at the heart of building recognition of the tyre pyrolysis sector, bringing together specialists from around the world to discuss their latest technologies and the challenges and opportunities of the sector.