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RECIRCLE AWARDS 2021
Recircle Awards 2021: Preview
Voting is now underway in the inaugural edition of the Recircle Awards, the tyre retreading and recycling industries’ recently launched annual awards event, and already more than 4,500 votes have been received across the 18 award categories that are open to the public vote, with many awards being extremely hotly contested. Here is your definitive guide to the Recircle Awards including a full list of nominees and how to vote.
sector and reflects the concept of continuous renewal. The Recircle Awards aims to be a key global event for the tyre sector in terms of sustainable innovation, production processes, management and services, and will provide well-
earned and valuable recognition for the contribution of key players in the sometimes- undervalued tyre retreading industr y and the burgeoning tyre recycling sector.” Title sponsors of the inaugural Recircle Awards is Autopromotec, who despite the postponement of their 2021 physical event, have continued to support the Recircle Awards throughout the development of the awards concept. At the time of the launch, Renzo Servadei, CEO of Promotec srl commented; “We are delighted to be working with Valebridge Media
Services, Retreading Business and Tyre & Rubber Recycling to bring the Recircle Awards to fruition. We are convinced that this new concept will become a seminal event in the annual tyre industry calendar, helping to raise the awareness of the efforts of those striving to develop the Circular Economy
within the tyre industry.”
Also supporting the event are a number of key partner/collaborators including Official Trophy Sponsors, Marangoni, as well as Silver Sponsors K al Tire and Bronze Sponsors Kraiburg, Salvadori, Tech and Vipal.
The Award Categories and How to Vote
There are twenty award categories into, the nominees for which are highlighted in the following pages. The shortlists for the first fourteen of these categories were announced on November 30 and were selected by a specially constituted Nominations Committee from a preliminary list of candidates nominated by members of the public. The Nominations Committee consisted of the respective editors of Retreading Business and Tyre & Rubber Recycling plus a further eight individuals from the global tyre retreading and recycling industries selected according to their independent status and their acknowledged expertise within their respective fields. These included Michael Schwaemmlein from the German association BRV, Guido Gambassi, from the Italian Retreaders Association AIRP, Daniel Rojas from the Chilean Retreaders Association ARNEC, David Stevens, the Managing Director of TRIB, the editor of SA Treads magazine Liana
Shaw, Valerie Shulman from ETRA, tyre pyrolysis consultant Martin von Wolfersdorff and
Organised by our in-house media services agency, Valebridge Media Services, and supported editorially by both Retreading Business and Tyre & Rubber Recycling, the Recircle Awards is a brand new event concept designed to raise the profile of the key role played by the tyre retreading and recycling sectors in the Circular
Economy.
David Wilson, Managing Director of Valebridge Media Services, and Publisher of Retreading Business and Tyre & Rubber Recycling explains; “Our aim was to create an event which recognises the sustainable role that the tyre industry can and must play in the 21st century transport
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