Partnership with LanzaTech to scale technology to generate raw materials from end-of-life tires
Nashville, Tennessee – Bridgestone Americas has partnered with carbon capture and gas fermentation company LanzaTech NZ Inc. to co-develop a new end-of-life tire (ELT) recycling process, the tire manufacturer announced. tires.
The partnership aims to apply LanzaTech’s proprietary technology to establish “a pathway to circularity in tire materials and decarbonization of new tire production,” the April 14 statement said.
In addition to converting ELTs into new materials, Bridgestone and LanzaTech are to “explore processes to create durable synthetic rubber that doesn’t rely on petrochemicals.”
In particular, the partners aim to co-develop a proprietary microbial technology to produce rubber butadiene monomer for use in the production of new tires.
Also on the drawing board is a new business model for ELT post-consumer waste management that increases the adoption of sustainably sourced chemicals for commercial applications.
Based in Skokie, Illinois, LanzaTech turns carbon waste into raw materials, such as ethanol, for fuels, fabrics and packaging, among other products.
LanzaTech says its first two commercial-scale gaseous fermentation plants produced more than 30 million gallons of ethanol, and that it has. Other factories are under construction around the world.
“We have already proven that we can convert unrecyclable, unsorted municipal solid waste into ethanol and then manufacture products that we use in our daily lives,” said Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech.
“Through our partnership with Bridgestone, we are developing a circular way to use tires to make tires.” Holmgren further claimed
For Bridgestone Americas, President and CEO Paolo Ferrari said, “We are determined to meet the moment with sustainable innovation that transforms the way tires are made and promotes end-to-end material circularity.
