tire recycling

Liberty Tire Recycling has strengthened its Gulf Coast footprint, acquiring All American Tire, Colt Tire Recycling, and Genan, Inc. to expand tire recycling capacity across Texas and Louisiana in a major consolidation move.

Gulf Coast Consolidation Reshapes the Market

Liberty Tire Recycling, a portfolio company of I Squared Capital, announced the acquisition of three operators — All American Tire, Colt Tire Recycling, and Genan, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Genan A/S — as a major expansion of its Gulf Coast operations. The additions deepen the company’s rubber recycling capacity, tire collections, and related capabilities across Texas and Louisiana, creating what Liberty calls the region’s most comprehensive tire recycling network. CEO Thomas Womble described the deals as bringing together proven partners whose success enhances Liberty and its ability to serve retailers, manufacturers, and local governments across one of the nation’s fastest-growing regions.

The Three Acquisitions at a Glance

Each target adds a distinct capability. All American Tire, based in Fort Worth, Texas and founded by Tom and Jodi Parker, is a market leader in collections and crumb rubber production in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Colt Tire Recycling, based in Louisiana and founded by Kip and Sydney Vincent, leads tire collection in the state and innovates in recycled rubber for civil engineering applications. Genan, Inc., a large state-of-the-art processing facility in Houston, specializes in crumb rubber and micronized rubber for technically demanding uses — flooring, automotive parts, asphalt, and a patented playground-surface technology — and is a leader in tire recycling and recovery.

Why This Matters for the Circular Economy

Liberty positions the expansion as advancing circular-economy solutions by increasing the supply of recycled rubber products used in infrastructure, manufacturing, and sports surfaces. As North America’s leading tire recycler, the company collects more than 219 million end-of-life tires annually and diverts more than 4.5 billion pounds of rubber from landfills each year. For the wider industry, concentrated regional capacity underscores the value of high-grade outputs such as recovered carbon black and rubber powders that feed demanding downstream applications rather than lower-value uses.

Implications for Project Developers

For investors and recyclers evaluating their own end-of-life tire strategies, consolidation at this scale confirms the economics of integrated collection-to-market processing. Firms weighing new or expanded facilities can assess comparable configurations and expected yields through a structured feasibility study, ensuring a facility is sized and scoped for the feedstock and product mix available in their region. As demand for sustainable tire management grows, the operators that win pair collection reach with technically differentiated recovered-material output.

Learn More:

• Tire Pyrolysis Projects
• Recovered Carbon Black
• Feasibility Studies
• What Is Tire Pyrolysis?
• Pyrolysis & rCB Plant Cost

Planning a Tire Recycling or Recovery Project?

Whether you are consolidating regional collection networks or developing new crumb rubber, micronized rubber, or recovered carbon black capacity, the right facility configuration and market positioning determine long-term returns.

Klean Industries helps developers, recyclers, and investors scope integrated tire recycling and recovery projects — from feedstock and product-mix analysis to process selection and cost estimation.

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