Black Bear Carbon intends to build a tyre recycling plant at Chemelot Industrial Park
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
Black Bear Carbon (BBC) intends to build a factory at the Chemelot industrial park (Geleen) to transform rubber granulate from car and truck tires into oil, gas and carbon black. The factory at Chemelot will operate under the name Recovered Carbon Black Nederland (RCBNL) as a 100% subsidiary of Black Bear Carbon.
Press release: “Black Bear Carbon set to develop new factory at Chemelot Industrial Park in the Netherlands”, 10/03/2021.
Figure 1. Black Bear Carbon intends to build a tyre recycling plant at Chemelot Industrial Park (taken from the press release)
Its previous factory in Nederweert (joint venture with tire recycler Kargro) was dismantled after a fire in February 2019. At the end of 2019, BBC announced that its new factory was going to Rotterdam. In the course of 2020, timely realization of RCBNL turned out to be difficult to achieve due to the issue regarding nitrogen deposition rights. In close collaboration with Chemelot, BBC has looked at the alternatives and decided to settle in the south of Limburg province.
The activities of Black Bear Carbon at Chemelot will focus on the recovery of the high-quality raw materials from the steel and textile-free shredded rubber granulate of car and truck tires. The storage, shredding and preprocessing of tires will be done at suppliers. BBC and Chemelot have applied for the permit at the end of 2020 and are fully engaged in preparations for the construction, which is expected to start in the third quarter of 2021. The project has an investment size of tens of millions of euros and is expected to generate approximately 30 jobs in the region.
