Recovered Carbon Black Moves into Commercial Conveyor Belting in the Americas
Recovered Carbon Black Belting
Continental’s belting business, ContiTech, is taking recovered carbon black out of the trial phase in the Americas by folding a commercial rCB grade into finished conveyor belt compounds.
A Commercial Step for rCB
ContiTech is advancing recovered carbon black beyond pilot and trial status in the Americas, commercially integrating Bolder Industries’ BolderBlack material into its conveyor belt compounds. The move, announced from Boulder, Colorado where Bolder Industries is based, marks a shift from evaluation to routine use in a demanding rubber product rather than a one-off experimental batch, and signals confidence among compounders that rCB can meet the performance and consistency requirements of finished articles.
The Material and Its Maker
BolderBlack is the recovered carbon black grade produced by Bolder Industries, which recovers carbon black and pyrolysis oil from recycled tyres. Selecting it for belting compounds indicates that compounders now see the material as capable of holding its place alongside virgin carbon black in a high-volume industrial application, even as broader adoption of recovered carbon black has remained gradual across the rubber sector.
Why Belting Is a Real Test
Conveyor belting subjects rubber compounds to sustained abrasion, tension and rolling load in service, so a switch to recovered carbon black carries genuine weight. It tests whether recovered carbon black belting can deliver, part after part, in a product where compound consistency directly affects belt life and operating cost for the end user.
A Downstream Demand Signal
Every commercial application of recovered carbon black broadens the market for material made from end-of-life tyres and reinforces the economics of the tyre-based recycling and pyrolysis that supply it, supporting the broader sector Klean Industries serves.
Learn More:
- Recovered carbon black production projects
- Tyre pyrolysis systems that yield rCB
- Pyrolysis oil co-products from tyres
Supply the Recovered Carbon Black Rubber Is Adopting
Commercial offtake like this proves recovered carbon black belting can hold its place in real rubber products.
Klean Industries engineers tyre pyrolysis facilities that produce recovered carbon black alongside oil and steel to specification.
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