Cut tyres in 3 flat parts

The trs t-cut™ machine cuts passenger vehicle and light truck tyres into 3 flat parts in 30 seconds : 2 sidewalls and 1 tread. The trs t-cut™ machine has been developed to bring the following advantages to the collection and transportation of scrap tyres :

• Scrap tyre storage space saving: 3 times more tyres in the same storage space.
• Standardized packing system; new pallets developed by TRS, specifically adapted for the flat tyre parts, increase the ease and speed of loading/unloading of tyres.
• 65% reduction in scrap tyre transportation cost through the reduction of space used by tyres.

Ultra high-pressure water jet

TRS uses ultra high-pressure water jet to recycle end-of-life tyres by yielding three high quality products :

• High quality rubber powders
• Clean steel wire
• Synthetic short fibers

The water jet technology enables TRS to:

• Pulverize the rubber into fine powder, in sizes that would normally require multiple steps using other technologies.
• Separate completely the rubber from the synthetic fiber and steel wires.
• Room temperature processing : no thermal alteration of the existing high quality rubbers.
• Avoid any chemicals or abrasives in the water during water jet.

Key rubber powder characteristics:

• Rubber powder from ELT (end-of-life tyre) with grades extending from 50 microns to 1 mm.
• Clean, contamination-free.
• High surface area and absence of thermal alteration of rubber due to the innovative low-temperature water jet milling process.
• The rubber powders can be surface devulcanized by the Biodevulc™ process without any secondary cleaning.

Biological surface devulcanization for rubber powders

TRS has developed a proprietary surface devulcanization process based on the action of bacteria to treat rubber powders coming from scrap tyres trs biodevulc™.

TyreXol™ is a high quality surface devulcanized rubber powder with the following characteristics :

• Black rubber powders from scrap tyres with particle sizes from 50 microns to 1mm.
• Biodevulc™ is used to treat TyreXol™ using bacteria, no harmful chemicals.
• Unique capacity of TyreXol™ to bond with rubber compounds during re-vulcanization; for reintroduction into rubber goods.
• Bacterial treatment reduces tyre odor allowing for odor-sensitive applications.
• Low carbon footprint: very green production methods.

The Biodevulc™ process:

1. Vulcanized rubber powder is mixed with proprietary bacteria cultured by TRS (Class 1).
2. Devulcanization occurs in an industrial bioreactor by continuous mixing of bacteria solution and rubber powder. The bacteria remove the sulfur bonds from the surface of the vulcanized rubber powder.
3. Surface devulcanized rubber powder trs TyreXol™ is drained, dried, packaged and shipped to clients for use as a new valuable raw material.