A CIRCULAR rubber market
IS POSSIBLE
We are revolutionizing tire sustainability – the CRs™ technology provides decarbonization and circularity at cost parity with virgin material production – while solving the tire waste problem.
By turning ~85% of the total tire (excluding only steel and fabric) into cryogenic rubber powder and combining it with the CRs™ activator, we can replace >50% of virgin material in a tire, which is mostly fossil material.
The CRs™ system is a proprietary technology that allows previously vulcanized rubber crumbs to be chemically reactivated to create a new compounding material.
CRs™ can be used with SBR, PBR, IR, Butyl, and EPDM rubber; it can be used with any vulcanized rubber crumbs.
Combining vulcanized rubber crumbs with virgin rubber using the CRs™ technology produces better performance: lab and road tests demonstrate 10-20% improved rolling resistance and 10%+ improved abrasion resistance.
CIRCULAR rubber materialS
ARE available NOW
The CRs™ process uses standard industry tire manufacturing machinery, requires no new capital investment, and reduces manufacturing curing time.
Recycled rubber from End-of-life tires does not need to be de-vulcanized.
CRs™ rubber cost is at par with virgin rubber.
NEW FOSSIL-BASED RUBBER USE CAN BE
REDUCED BY OVER 50% TODAY
CRs™ is validated using up to 50% recycled crumb rubber added to virgin compounds with demonstrated improved performance; and higher percentages are possible.
Products produced with CRs™ can be recycled over and over again - 10 recycles showed no degrading in tests.
