Scrap Tire News

STN June 2013 • 5 Visit us on the Web: www.scraptirenews.com Lakin Tire West 15305 Spring Avenue Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 800-488-2752 Lakin Tire East 240 Frontage Road West Haven, CT 06516 800-368-8473 • Scrap Tire Collection / Management Nationwide • Fully Compliant With Local, State, Federal Guidelines • TDF Available From Whole Tire To 1" Nominal • Crumb Rubber Feedstock From 6" Primary to 1" Nominal, Also All Black • Civil Engineering, Tire Derived Aggregate, To Specifications • Large Supply Of High Quality Used Tires And Retreadable Casings • Hablamos Espanol www.lakintire.com LAKIN TIRE Multiple other challenges are also expected to be filed on the rule. According to Mike Benoit, Executive Director of the Cement Kiln Recycling Coalition (CKRC), the challenge is largely over processing requirements the rule imposes on certain types of scrap tires. Under the final rule, scrap tires taken from landfills would have to undergo expensive metal removal and shredding for them to be considered fuel rather than solid waste. It's likely other groups will file similar challenges to the scrap-tire processing requirement, CKRC's Benoit said. The final rule took effect April 8 and amends an earlier rule which was issued in March 2011. EPA says the final rule does not impose any direct costs. According to EPA the rule assists boiler and incinerator operators and non- hazardous secondary material producers identify whether material will be regulated as solid waste or as fuel. Signed in December 2012 by former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the rule says resonated wood, coal refuse that has been recovered from legacy piles, scrap tires that are not discarded and are managed by established tire col- lection programs, and dewatered pulp and paper sludges that are not discarded will be treated as fuels and not as wastes. u Sources: PCA, CKRC, EPA, Daily Environmental Report Phoenix Industries, North Las Vegas, Nev., has been award- ed a patent for its process related to the pelletizing of rubber modified asphalt used in the paving industry. The patent covers the pelletization process and formulation technology for creating a pre-manufactured matrix of as- phalt and modifiers with an outer shell coating to keep the pellets in a free-flowing form that is transported and stored at ambient temperature, according to a Phoenix Industries news release. This free-flowing characteristic allows the process to save energy normally required to keep the asphalt as a molten liquid, Phoenix said. In application, the proportional amount of the pellets are mixed, either through the RAP (recycled asphalt pavement) collar of a continuous drum plant or directly into the mixer of a batch plant, where it is blended with the heated aggregate to produce a modified hot mix asphalt. "This patent is a significant development that will let us move ahead with the introduction of new products based on related technology," Serji Amirkhanian, Phoenix Indus- tries' director of research and development said. u Phoenix Industries Gets AR Patent Firm is awarded patent related to pelletizing rubber materials used in asphalt Groups , continued from page 1..