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Economy category as “a personal award for the commitment of network coordinator Christina Guth. I am confident that this international award will give us momentum to achieve our mission of reusing or recycling 100 percent of tyres,” he said.
Christina Guth expressed her thanks for the award and appealed to all market players to ”invest even more in the development of qualitative retreading”. She also appealed to new tyre manufacturers to “produce tyres in such a way that they can be retreaded. If both succeed, then there is an opportunity to significantly increase the proportion of retreaded tyres and thus make an important contribution to CO2 reduction and resource conservation worldwide,” she said.
GREEN PAPER – NO GREEN DEAL WITHOUT RECYCLING
During the week before TyreXpo Asia the AZuR Network held its Annual Partner Meeting at the :metabolon Institute around 50 AZuR partners, including numerous scientists from partner universities, exchanged ideas about innova- tive solutions, processes and projects for the environmen- tally friendly reuse and recycling of tyres in line with the
During the event, the Network launched a green paper en- titled “No Green Deal Without Recycling” aimed at politici- ans, which was presented by Christina Guth.
”In order to achieve the goals of the Green Deal,” she said, “the EU must resolve the conflicting goals between the retreaded tyres and sustainable recycling products must be Deal threatens.”
The research and funding projects presented at the event presented current research projects of the :metabolon In- stitute of the TH Cologne, whilst a joint funding project by Schwalbe, Pyrum and the Cologne Technical University for the recycling of bicycle tyres was presented by Pyrum Ma-
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Further scientific and political impulses were provided by Prof. Peter Wiesen with a lecture on political processes in - dition, Daniel Schockmann from Regupol brought the AZuR partners up to date with regard to the standardisation of materials produced from scrap tyres.
In workshops on key aspects of the circular tyre economy, new ideas, strategies and solutions were developed to pro- mote tyre retreading over the next few years, as well as the pyrolysis process, the material recycling of old tyres into sustainable recycling products and the use of Rubber presented and discussed in the forum and are to be further developed in working groups.
NEW MEMBERS JOIN NETWORK
Meanwhile, since the start of the year the AZuR Network has managed to attract five new members. Particularly en- couraging is the fact that these new members come from all corners of the tyre industry and related sectors.
- versity of applied sciences in Lower Saxony, which is focu- sing on topics such as low-CO2 energy supply concepts and process-integrated environmental protection.
AZuR has also welcomed Apollo Tires as the first new tyre manufacturer to join the network, thereby closing the tyre cycle. The other new members are retread equipment supp- lier Italmatic, German retreader Hofdmann and Zeppelin Systems GmbH, which specialises in the construction of sys- tems for handling high-quality bulk materials, sustainable raw materials and recyclates. “With Zeppelin systems, the recycling cycle is efficiently closed,” commented the AZuR Network in a press statement.
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