2025: Awards Categories

The Nominees for the 2025 Recircle Awards were announced in our Nominations Ceremony on January 20, 2025. Video highlights can be viewed immediately below and further down the page you can start voting for your chosen candidates.

Tyre Pyrolysis Award

In recognition of a particularly significant contribution to the tyre pyrolysis sector in 2024

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This category is not open to public vote. It will be decided solely by the Recircle Awards Nominations Committee

The Nominations Period is now closed and the 2025 Recircle Awards Nominees Shortlist will be announced on January the 22nd.

Nominees

Bolder Industries

Bolder Industries is arguably the most advanced of the US-based pyrolysis projects. It produces a range of Boulder Blacks, for which it has offtake agreements with major players in the rubber industry. Bolder also picked up the Pyrolyx plant which it is currently taking through to full production, and it also has acquired a large site in Antwerp for its first European plant.

Contec SA

Contec has developed its proprietary pyrolysis process based on using a molten salt bed , which gives a constantly controlled temperature throughout the process. The unique process has been proven at its first commercial plant in Poland and the company is now looking for partners to help expand this opportunity in a growing rCB market.

Ecolomondo

Ecolomondo is, to date, the only Canadian pyrolysis project to make real progress. The company was founded by Eliot Sorella with a view of protecting the environment, and by doing so create value from waste tyres. Proprietary technology has been proven and is now operational at its Hawkesbury plant, with expansion expected in 2025. Ecolomondo has already been making deliveries of TPO and has offtake agreements in place for its rCB.

Greenval Technologies

Greenval Technologies has gone down the road of developing smaller plants to be located near the source of the tyres. Based in Spain, it has managed to negotiate the complicated government barriers, which vary from province to province, and has already insalled a number of projects and plans to grow further with more units in Spain and potentially in France.

Pyrum Innovations

Pyrum Innovations is a German company that has taken a different approach to pyrolysis. Rather than the “conventional” horizontal chamber heated from below with a screw drive to move material from the feed point to the take off, Pyrum uses vertically stacked electrically heated plates and gravity to process crumb rubber into its high quality rCB. Pyrum has secured offtake agreements with BASF for its TPO, and with Continental and Mercedes for its rCB. It has a second plant in Germany under way, and has signed MOU for further plants across Europe.

Previous Winner

Scandinavian Enviro Systems

The Swedish pyrolysis operation was founded in 2001, has its head office in Gothenburg and runs its own plant in Asensbruk, Sweden. The company has received significant financial input from Michelin, who own 20% of the company.