RE-TYRE® · Tyre Recycling Specialists
The thesis
Tyre recycling is a broken supply chain, not a broken technology. Transporting a used tyre is transporting air.
What comes out of a tyre should go back into a tyre. No other application matches the volume — only the loop closes.
Imperial College research · UK production line · modular by design
Why now
Around 89% of the United Kingdom's waste rubber is exported to India each year, declared for environmentally sound recovery into secondary materials.
The country's environmental regulator has, since July 2022, received only thirteen of the shipping forms that should accompany those movements. When industry placed trackers inside bales, several forms were found to be falsified — the bales had not arrived at the recovery facility named on the paperwork.
The same regulator has now committed to remove the T8 exemption that allowed unpermitted tyre handling. From October 2025, every export to India faces enhanced verification. Digital waste tracking is being introduced across the United Kingdom in 2026.
Source · Environment Agency, Internal Review of Waste Pneumatic Tyres, July 2025.
Our reply
Re-Tyre® takes the tyre at the kerb and turns it back into compound on the same site that recovered it. No port. No ocean. No chain of brokers between the discard and the next tyre.
FDPT® disintegrates the rubber gently and continuously — without thermal pyrolysis, without contamination — so the material that comes out can re-enter a tyre. activR® returns to compound. fibR® returns to textile fibre. Steel returns to cord.
Every batch ships with a passport: provenance, mass, particle size, moisture, recycled-content fraction, carbon impact. Every handover is signed. Every output kilogramme is traceable to the tyre it came from.
Our approach
Local
Recovery sits next to the volume. A tyre never travels further than it has to.
Modular
Flat-packed and factory-built. Each line assembles into a minimum-footprint operating floor of ~10,000 sq ft — Basingstoke pilot is 8,818 sq ft. Fast to set up, faster to replicate.
Verified
Every batch is signed, sampled, and documented. Provenance is the product, not a by-product.
Repeatable
Designed so every recovered material can be recovered again. No dead-end downcycling.
Recovered here · returned here · audited on the way out
Mass balance
Supply chain
Six dividends from one operating model — the same line, the same audit chain, six outcomes for the partners around it.
Local industry
Recovery returns to UK regions, with short-haul collection and local employment at every operating site.
Material no one else takes
Domestic recovery for the volume that no longer has a legal export route — sized for the tyres rejected by the closing T8 exemption and the India pyrolysis ban.
Engineering, not disposal
FDPT® returns rubber to compound at specification. Recovery is an engineering operation, not waste handled by salvage.
Verifiable carbon, audit-grade
Per-batch carbon ledger calculated from line telemetry. Provenance is the basis of every credit issued — ready for compliance reporting and premium-grade carbon registries.
New materials from old tyres
activR®, fibR®, and the FDPT® mechanism extend with new formulations and new chain-of-custody methodology. The recycled-content envelope widens with every batch characterised.
R&D, never finished
The research programme with Imperial College London and the Materials Processing Institute runs through every line in the network. Materials evolve; the process evolves with them.