10th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
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BUILDING ON 10 YEARS OF TYRE RECYCLING IN THE EU

The 10th ETRA Conference celebrates the progress that has been made in the industry during the past decade and highlights opportunities for moving forward after 2003.

The panels will explore the technologies and markets, products and applications that have come to the fore during the past 10 years and the obstacles that have been overcome. Speakers will highlight new opportunities available within and outside of the EU and how they can become part of the post-2003 sustainable development solution.


PRECONFERENCE AND OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES 


MONDAY and TUESDAY

  • Two day Study Visit to recycling facilities


WENSDAY

  • Preconference Seminars
  • The ETRA General Assembly Meeting
  • The CEN Workshop Agreement Programme
  • Conference Registration
  • ETRA’s Gala 10th Anniversary Celebration
  • THE CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
  • The Plenary Sessions
  • The Pyrolysis Forum
  • The Technology Forum
  • The Industry Speak-out
  • The AMSE Student Exchange
  • The Exhibition
  • New in 2003 : A Poster Show
  • THE CEN WORKING GROUP : Towards the EN
  • THE SPEAKERS : Governments, NGOs, research and development teams and recycling professionals from a broad spectrum of sectors in the tyre recycling industry, both public and private from within and outside the EU.



THEME

BUILDING ON 10 YEARS OF TYRE RECYCLING IN THE EU

 The 10th ETRA Conference celebrates the progress that has been made by the industry during the past decade and highlights opportunities for moving forward after 2003.During the past ten years, tyre recycling in the EU has evolved into a commercially viable, multi-sectoral environmentally sound industry. It fulfills a strategic Community goal towards sustainable development by transforming a priority waste stream into a valuable resource which yields a broad range of cost-effective materials that are used in an expanding array of civil engineering, construction and rehabilitation applications as well as myriad industrial and consumer products.

Three factors appear to have provided the impetus for change. First, the timely succession of community legislation and mandates that ban the landfilling of most post-consumer tyres and demand improved valorisation. The Member States have transposed this legislation into national law and are now being incorporated by the Candidate States. Second, during the same period new treatments, applications and products have become commercially viable due to technological advances. Third, a heightened awareness that these materials are a valuable resource has led positive market responses.

This is particularly apparent among civil engineers and government authorities who have determined that these readily available materials provide cost-effective alternatives to traditional ones while offering improved results.It would be remiss not to mention the considerable efforts made by members of the industry itself. In ten years they have formalised the industry by creating professional standards of behaviour as well as technical standards for the materials and applications that they produce.



27/03/2003 BUILDING ON 10 YEARS OF TYRE RECYCLING IN THE EU

Thursday 27-03-2003


Session 1 : The EU Framework 1994 - 2003

    Chair: Ir. Anthony Melein RUMAL
    DG Environment  Mr.Alain Deckers 
    The tyre manufacturers Ir.Jean-Phillippe Gorez, Michelin-BLIC
    Tyre Recyclers Dr.Valerie L. Shulman , ETRA
  

 
Session 2 : Progress in the Member and Candidate States

    Chair:  Mr. Gilbert Johnson
    Czech Republic lng. Vladimir Trefil
    Greece  Dr. Petros Varelidis, Ministry of the Environment
    Poland  Mr. Piotr Dura, Tyre Management Programme
    Slovenia Ir. Sergej Laurencic, Ministry of the Environment
    Spain  Ir. Andrés Macho, Ministry of the Environment
    The UK Mr. Paul Hallett, DTI, Sustainable Development Directorate

 

Session 3 : Key issues for future resolution

The session will address some of the most important issues that impact upon the future of tyre recycling. They include the hidden costs of the ‘waste definition’ and how they can be minimized; the use of technical standards as a tool for market development and, looking at ‘environmental impacts’ within the context of competitive products.

    Chair: Dr.Valerie L. Shulman, ETRA
    Mr. Jan Van Herp, CEN Management Centre
    Mr. Michael Christensen, RUBCUM, Denmark
    Mr. Daniel Smith, Tire Solutions International, Alberta, Canada

   

Session 4 : Technical retrospective and future directions

What can now be done that was not possible 10 years ago? The session will provide highlights of some of the technological developments that have fostered the evolution of the growing material recycling sector.
Where are the opportunities within /outside of the EU? How we can capitalise on them?
    Chair: Dr. Timothy Karpetsky,  CPI, Germany/USA
    Dr. Egan Archer, Juniper Consulting, UK,
    Dott. Giovanni Girelli-Carusi Italcementi, Bergamo, Italy energy recovery
    Ir. Phillipp Biedenkopf Kahl Group, Germany




BUILDING ON 10 YEARS OF TYRE RECYCLING IN THE EU

Friday 28-03-2003


Session 5: A new generation of materials for innovative products

The available range of post-consumer tyre materials has expanded considerably particularly at the extremes. The session will focus on a range of materials that has evolved in recent years, the first as a result of technological advance, the latter resulting from more sophisticated treatments of historic materials.
    Chair :Ir. Rene Slangen, Rubber Resources, the Netherlands
    Dr. Henrik Scholz, Faru GmbH, Germany
    Dr. Maria Martinez, Rubber Resources, the Netherlands
    Mr. Albert Prisse AETP, Brussels
    Mr. Elroy Fimrite Landstar Corp, Canada and USA
    Ir. Jaroslav Holik,  Gumotex, Zlin, Czech Republic
 


Session 6 : Civil engineering and construction : Towards the future

The market indicates that civil engineers have become increasingly aware of the benefits of post-consumer tyres and have begun to seek new ways to use these readily available, cost-effective materials for new applications. The session will highlight the advantages and disadvantages of these materials in comparison to others and identify some of the factors that could enhance or limit their use.
    Chair : Dr. Ken Collins, University of Southampton
    Ir. Mikko Talola, Lassila and Tikanoja, Oyj, Finland
    Dr. Jonathan Simm, H.R. Wallingford, the UK
    Ir. Costis Keridis, Christoforos Keridis, SA, Greece
 


Session 7 : Roads – Evolving materials and technologies

The session examines some of the recent developments in road construction, surfacing materials and new technologies within the EU and beyond. It will highlight how to overcoming some of the obstacles to market growth and focus on new, special purpose markets. European road construction trends will be defined.
    Chair : Dott. Ettore Musacchi, ADRIA, Italy
    Prof. Serji Amirkhanian Civil Engineering Department, Clemson University, South Carolina
    Prof. Antonio D'Andrea University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy
    Ir. Jean-François Gal Centre Recherche Colas SA, France
    Dr. Jan Kudrna Road Department, Civil Engineering, Brno,University of Technology
    Ir.Vasco Pampulim Recipav, Portugal
 


Session 8 : Meeting the Challenge of the Future – A Community

Resource
This informal session will cover many of the research and project opportunities available through the EU that are available to assist SMEs to develop more competitive processes, materials, applications and products. The CEN/SSTAR and related programmes will also provide assistance as new standards are sought. Exchanges of experiences and ideas among material producers and users with a look towards with insights from project leaders and coordinators.

    Chair: The ETRA Team
    Mr. Rein Nieland,  DG RTD/B03, the European Commission
    Mr. André Pirlet,  CEN/ISS




PYROLISYS FORUM
BUILDING ON 10 YEARS OF TYRE RECYCLING IN THE EU


Panel 1 : Pyrolysis technologies: general overview

State of the art in pyrolysis technologies including small description of processes for constructors not attending the Forum such as NESA, Belgium, RATech Poland, COSA, Taiwan, METSO, USA, RMD, Spain. How can tyre pyrolysis be profitable?

Economical aspects
    Co-Chair : Dr.C.Gisèle Jung and Dr. André Fontana

Interest in up-grading the tyre pyrolytic char
Focusing on special purpose markets.
Description of processes not presented in this Forum
 

Panel 2 : Pyrolysis technologies : industrial developments

Highlights of the technological developments in pyrolysis technologies presented by the constructors. A view of the future.
    Co-Chair :Dr.C.Gisèle Jung and Dr. André Fontana
    Ir. Jean Affolter Applied Thermal Processes, Switzerland
    Ir. Jo Van Hooreweghe Okadora, Japan
    John Acton Compact Power, the UK
    James Bell AMAT, the UK
    Nick Ross  Coalite Tyre Services, the UK
 

Panel 3 : Products issued from pyrolysis - Applications 

Material valorisation from tyre pyrolitic products including recent developments for upgrading of materials: a look toward the future of carbon products
    Co-Chair :Prof. Jean-Baptiste Donnet and Dr.C.Gisèle Jung  
    Prof. Jean-Baptiste Donnet  ENSCMU, France
    Gilles Moninot Columbian Chemicals, the UK
    Ir. Jack Fader CBp Europe, Belgium
    Dr. David Herd Carbon Processing Ltd, the UK
    Sergio Galvagno ENEA, Italy
    Ir. Jo Van Hooreweghe Okadors, Japan

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