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Hungary leads the way in tyre recycling
Output offers wide sales opportunities with high earnings
In the Hungarian town of
Cegléd, MeWa is currently
building an ultramodern plant
for recycling old tyres. It produces
a special end product in
the form of an uncontaminated
rubber powder for the highest
demands.
Already children benefit from
recycling products.
Fall protection: Moulded products
made of rubber granules.
MeWa-News December 2007
The active tyre powder from the used
tyre processing plant in the Hungarian
town of Cegléd can be mixed
directly back into the rubber production
process as a genuine secondary raw material.
Depending on the product, 10 to
90 per cent of the natural rubber originally
used can be replaced with this material.
The material is traded as correspondingly
valuable commodity. The market price is
From June 2008 the plant in Cegléd will process
20.000 tonnes of used tyres per annum.
around three times higher than is usual for
the conventionally produced granules.
The plant in the Hungarian Puszta
around 100 kilometres south-east of
Budapest will be operated by Euro-Rubber
GmbH. Company owner, Karoly Sziraki,
has been in the tyre processing industry
for over 15 years and processes around
half of the 40,000 tonnes of old tyres
collected every year in Hungary, mainly for
thermal recycling in the cement industry.
The plan is to widen this sales outlet in
future. To reach this goal, the entrepreneur
has made a large investment. The best
currently available tyre recycling technology
will soon enable a wide range of rubber
recycling products.
The new plant shreds both truck and
car used tyres according to the MeWa
three-stage principle: shredding, granulating
line, fine grinding. The rubber
granules in sizes of 0 to 4 mm are ex-
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pected to be sold for a variety of applications.
For example, its Hungarian sister
company, Euro-Novex GmbH, makes the
granules into sound insulation mats for the
building industry. An order is in the pipeline
from the Hungarian ministry of transport.
The plan is to use the rubber powder
mixture to comfortably expand the cycle
paths in the predominantly flat country
into a 9000-kilometre-long network.
And the small grains of rubber can also be
incorporated into playground surfaces,
providing the children with an effective
form of protection when they fall.
However, the new plant further processes
a large part of the granular material
into a much more valuable rubber powder.
The newly developed fine rubber mill
ultimately makes old tyres into a secondary
raw material in its most refined form. The
active rubber powder can be directly mixed
with natural rubber at the right pressure
and temperature conditions. Rubber
hoses, rubber mats or other technical rubber
products can therefore be produced in
future out of 10 to 90 per cent recycled
material depending on the product. ■
Cegléd – gateway to the Puszta
The city with its 38,000 inhabitants
is well-known as a spa. Nearby rises 17
mineral sources, which are bottled as
the popular Mira-water.
Cegléd is also the gateway to the
great Hungarian lowlands. The landscape
known as Puszta with its sandy
ground, draw wells and isolated
farms took up half the national territory
of Hungary. Tourists like this wide and
flat piece of cultivated landscape as a
paradise for horseback riding.