Breakthrough Recycling Technology
First full-scale plant for recycling used tires

An environmentally friendly, full-scale plant for recycling used tires is to be established in Åsensbruk. Producing fuel and steel, it is the first of its kind in the world and will be up and running in summer 2010. The plant will employ 30 staff and have an initial production capacity of 10,000 tonnes/year, which is planned to increase to about 30,000 tonnes per year.

The company behind the project is Scandinavian Enviro System (SES), who will build and operate the plant. The graphic fine paper company Arctic Paper is providing financial support. SES has developed a patented recycling technique, Carbonize by Forced Convection, in which the tires are gased in a oxygen free environment to carbon black, oil, steel and gas. The CFC process is environmental friendly and energy efficient. SES has received prestigious awards and international recognition for this pyrolysis technology and was chosen this year by the Nordic Cleantech 50 jury as one of the region’s most promising ‘clean-tech’ companies.

“Our aim is to be the global leader in used tire recycling,” says Ola Ekman, CEO at SES. Through our patented process we recover valuable raw materials. The technology has also been successfully tested on other organic waste.” “SES’s arrival in Åsensbruk is the start a regeneration project which will see the site of our former paper mill transformed into an industrial park for companies in the environmental and recycling business”, says Per Skoglund, CEO at Arctic Paper Håfreström.

Contacts:
Ola Ekman, VD Scandinavian Enviro Systems, +46 70 528 14 88
Per Skoglund, VD Arctic Paper Håfreström, +46 +46 530 365 17

Scandinavian Enviro Systems (SES) is headquartered in Gothenburg and was founded in 2001 to commercialize a patented process for recycling organic waste. SES has received international recognition and awards for its work and was chosen this year by the Nordic Cleantech 50 jury as a promising ‘clean-tech’ company. In September 2008, SES’s first pilot plant was established in Gothenburg.

Arctic Paper manufactures and markets graphic fine paper of a very high quality. The company is one of the leading European companies in this area. Manufacture takes place in Sweden at the Arctic Paper Munkedals paper mill, in Poland at Arctic Paper Kostrzyn and in Germany at Arctic Paper Mochenwangen. Negotiations are continuing with regard to the acquisition of Grycksbo Paper AB. The product range consists of Amber, Arctic, Munken, Pamo and L-Print, which are used, primarily, for design and book paper. Arctic Paper has 1,150 employees and sales offices in 15 countries around Europe.