About eleven million tonnes post-consumer tires are accumulated annually in the world and used tires is today one of the worst solid waste problems. For many years used tires have been added to the billions that have been stockpiled or buried in landfills. There are as well a huge number of unaccounted tires found in illegal dump sites and warehouses around the world.

Tires are difficult to recycle due to their complex structure and today most worn out tires are incinerated, shredded or used as landfills. All these methods have significant limitations and are not sustainable solutions. The chemical composition of tires makes them a valuable resource and the long-term solution would be to extract the resources from the tires. To recycle the chemical compounds found in tires is both environmentally friendly and financially wise.

Previous attempts to recycle tires have not been profitable enough due to low end product quality and inefficient processing.

The new patented CFC process (Carbonize by Forced Convection) from SES enables a fast, efficient and environmental friendly technology for the recycling of tires. This heating process has low investment and running costs, is safe, efficient, and produces high quality products with a high market value. The closed CFC process has also very low environmental impact.