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 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
CRsTM is a proprietary technology that enables reuse of end-of-life tire rubber crumb for fully circular rubber, replacing petroleum-based virgin material
The CRs™ system allows previously vulcanized rubber crumbs to become chemically reactivated to create a new compounding material.
CRs™ can be used for 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 improved performance: e.g., improved tire rolling resistance and wear are demonstrated in road tests.
CIRCULAR rubber materialS
ARE available NOW
The CRs™ process uses standard industry tire manufacturing machinery and requires no new capital investment, and reduces curing time in manufacturing.
End-of-life tires recycled rubber does not need to be de-vulcanized since CRs™ uses a different bonding mechanism than the conventional vulcanization process.
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 - higher percentages will be possible with our ongoing research
Products produced with CRs™ can be recycled over and over again - 10 recycles showed no degrading in tests.
