Tire Retreading: Continental and Ecore Turn Retread Waste Into a Circular Feedstock


Tire Retreading

For Continental’s commercial tires and retreads, end of life doesn’t have to be the end. Through a partnership with Ecore, the tire maker transforms its scrap commercial tires and retread waste into a valuable feedstock for recycled rubber flooring.

Continental is designing its commercial tires for more retreads and longer lives. The waste from the retread process, once a disposal cost, now flows into Ecore’s manufacturing as a raw material — closing a loop that keeps rubber in productive use.

Retreading As Circular Strategy

Retreading extends a tire’s service life before recycling, and the residual waste from retreading is itself recoverable. This layered approach extracts maximum value from every casing: use it, retread it, then recover the rubber as feedstock.

A Circular Tire Economy

Partnerships like this show how tire makers and material processors are aligning to keep end-of-life tires and retread waste circulating through the economy rather than heading to landfill.

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Turn Retread And Scrap Tires Into Circular Feedstocks

As tire makers like Continental design for more retreads, the waste from that process becomes a valuable feedstock rather than a disposal problem — and the facilities that recover it capture that value.

Klean Industries keeps end-of-life tires and retread waste in the loop through its circular tyre manufacturing and retreading systems, recovering rubber, recovered carbon black, and pyrolysis oil.

Why Choose Klean Industries’ Tire Recycling?

✅ Retreading and recovery — circular tyre manufacturing that extends tire life.
✅ Multiple product streams — rubber, recovered carbon black, and oil from one feedstock.
✅ Turn-key EPC — design, build, and commission under one partner.
✅ Bankable feasibility — project economics validated before you commit.

Looking to close the loop on retread and scrap tires?

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