Tyromer Inc, a company established by the University of Waterloo to commercialize a greener way to recycle scrap tire rubber and manage scrap tire waste has opened a new facility housed inside the AirBoss Rubber Compounding building on Glasgow Street in Kitchener.
Invented by Costas Tzoganakis, a Waterloo chemical engineering professor, the Tyromer technology turns scrap tire rubber into a new,
*Pictured left to right at Tyromer's new production facility are: Costas Tzoganakis, Tyromer's technology inventor, Daiene Vernile, MPP for Kitchener Centre and Sam Visaisouk, CEO of Tyromer.
Each year more than 300 million scrap tires are generated in North America. During the average life of a tire, only 20 per cent of the rubber is used, leaving a staggering 10 billion pounds of scrap tires," said Sam Visaisouk, CEO, Tyromer Inc. "With Tyromer-TDP, there is now a socially responsible and environmentally sustainable solution to the global management of scrap tires."
Tyromer has received support from Michelin Development Company, Ontario Centres of Excellence, the University of Waterloo, Ontario Tire Stewardship and AirBoss Rubber Compounding.