Tyre Recycling Digitalisation

Siemens AG has joined the Alliance for the Future of Tyres (AZuR), bringing industrial automation and digital engineering expertise to Europe’s effort to build a more sustainable, circular tyre value chain.

Digitalisation at the Core of Tyre Recovery

AZuR works across the European tyre industry to advance recycling and resource recovery, and Siemens joins as a partner focused on digitalisation and automation. The company brings long-standing capability in industrial automation, digital engineering and data-driven process optimisation — tools that have already reshaped manufacturing and are now being pointed at the end-of-life stage of the tyre lifecycle. For recyclers, this points toward smarter plants where sensors, process controls and data analytics tighten output quality and reduce waste across tire pyrolysis and related recovery operations.

A Full-Lifecycle View of the Value Chain

The alliance’s stated ambition is to improve the development of a sustainable, ethical and environmentally responsible tyre value chain, spanning production, use, recycling and recovery. Digitalisation advances that goal by making material flows visible across the entire chain — from the tyre that leaves the factory to the feedstock that returns as recovered material. Traceability and data capture help operators understand what enters a recycling process, how it is handled, and what quality of output emerges on the other side, supporting the dependable production of recovered carbon black.

Why Automation Matters Across the Recycling Plant

At the facility level, digitalisation turns recycling from a batch-oriented operation into a continuously monitored process. Machine connectivity, condition monitoring and centralised control systems let operators respond to drift in real time rather than after a batch runs off-spec. For a sector that has historically relied on manual inspection and mechanical separation, this shift supports higher throughput, less downtime and more repeatable material output — all of which strengthen the business case for investing in modern tyre recovery capacity.

What Digitalisation Means for Pyrolysis and Recovered Carbon Black

Automation and data-driven optimisation matter directly to advanced recovery routes such as pyrolysis, where consistent process control is central to producing dependable pyrolysis oil and recovered carbon black. Digital tools can support continuous monitoring, tighter temperature and feedstock management, and the quality assurance that downstream buyers increasingly expect. As recovered carbon black competes with virgin grades, the ability to document and control output quality becomes a genuine commercial advantage — and a compelling reason for operators to evaluate how digitalisation fits a prospective facility through feasibility studies.

Learn More:

• Tire Pyrolysis Projects
• Recovered Carbon Black
• Pyrolysis Oil
• Feasibility Studies

Ready to Automate Your Tyre Recovery Operation?

Digitalisation is becoming a defining feature of modern tyre recycling, and early movers stand to gain on process consistency and output quality. Klean Industries supports the full project-development pathway for tyre recovery and pyrolysis.

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