Tyre Recycling Industry

The Tire Industry Project has expanded its network into Southeast Asia, welcoming the Thailand Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association as its ninth affiliate member.

Affiliate Membership Expands TIP’s Southeast Asia Presence

The Tire Industry Project (TIP) has welcomed the Thailand Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (TATMA) as its ninth Affiliate Member, extending the initiative’s reach into one of the world’s most significant tyre-manufacturing and export regions. Affiliate members are tyre trade associations that contribute regional perspectives to TIP’s global work on environmental, social and governance issues across the tyre value chain, including tyre and road wear particles, end-of-life tyre management and sustainable raw materials.

Thailand’s Strategic Role in the Tyre Recycling Industry

Thailand is strategically important to the tyre recycling industry because of its central role in global tyre manufacturing and trade. TIP has described the country as the world’s second-largest tyre exporter by volume, a position that makes its approach to end-of-life tyre handling a meaningful signal for the wider sector. As a circular economy ecosystem develops across the Thai tyre value chain, TATMA’s affiliate role is expected to support cooperation on how used tyres are collected, processed and directed toward productive recovery routes rather than disposal.

TATMA to Contribute Industry and ESG Perspective

TATMA represents tyre manufacturers based in Thailand and works on trade promotion, industry coordination and ESG-related matters, including quality standards, manufacturing practices and environmental compliance. Through its affiliate role, the association is expected to share local knowledge and support exchange with other tyre industry bodies on sustainability and circular economy priorities. The broader affiliate network already spans major markets including Australia, India, the United Kingdom, Europe, Japan, Korea, Canada and the United States, giving TIP a wider base of regional insight as it works toward a sustainable tyre value chain.

What This Means for End-of-Life Tyre Recovery

For recyclers and project developers, developments of this kind reinforce the structural case for treating end-of-life tyres as a recoverable feedstock. Recovered carbon black and pyrolysis oil derived from scrap tyres stand to benefit as more regions formalize their sustainability commitments. A coordinated, association-backed push toward end-of-life tyre circularity strengthens the long-term demand signals that de-risk investment in tyre recycling infrastructure and feasibility studies for new plants. Regional coordination of this kind also helps standardize how collected tyres are graded and routed, which in turn supports the consistent feedstock quality that pyrolysis and carbon-recovery operators rely on for dependable output.

Learn More:

• Tire pyrolysis technology and plants
• Recovered carbon black (rCB) production
• What is recovered carbon black?
• What is tire pyrolysis?
• Feasibility studies for pyrolysis projects

Turn End-of-Life Tyres Into New Value

Association-backed commitments across major tyre markets are strengthening the case for end-of-life tyre circularity, and recovered carbon black is central to that shift.

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