Birla opens new carbon black finishing line in Italy

Birla Carbon, a manufacturer and supplier of carbon-based solutions, has opened a new production line at its carbon black facility in Trecate, Italy.

This dedicated line will serve the purpose of finishing and packing of Continua Sustainable Carbonaceous Material (SCM), a circular material derived from end-of-life tyres.

With this launch, Birla Carbon said “high quality and consistent Continua SCM will be available in large volumes”, strengthening long-term supply security for it customers worldwide.

John Loudermilk, president and CEO, Birla Carbon, said Continua SCM “represents the most consistent, high-quality, circular material in the carbon black industry today and replaces a portion of carbon black in most rubber and non-rubber applications”.

“It also reflects cross-industry collaboration for sustainability, with raw material sourced from our partner Circtec’s newly launched tyre pyrolysis facility in the Netherlands, and finished and packed at our state of-the-art processing line in Trecate,” he added.

Loudermilk said the launch of this line is a key milestone in it ambition to put back into industry 300,000 tons of end-of-life tyres annually by 2030.