To showcase its thermal decomposition process technology, Canadian Ecolomondo Corp. will be setting up it's tire-recycling plant in Hawkesbury, Ontario per Rubber News. Ecolomondo has acquired 13.4 acres for this project and work on the site is to begin immediately. The eastern Ontario town of Hawkesbury is located on the Ottawa River near the border with Quebec and has about 10,000 inhabitants.
Per Ecolomondo, construction is scheduled to start on the 50,000 square foot facility in the autumn of 2018. Completion is set for the second or third quarter of 2019.
The facility will recover 5,000 tons of carbon black, 6.5 million liters of oil, 1,200 tons of process gas and more than 1,600 tons of steel per year with a rated processing capacity of 13,000 metric tons of end-of-life tires per year. The lot was purchased for roughly $305,000.
Ecolomondo is based in Montreal and they specialize in selling turnkey waste-processing facilities based on its TPD technology. They are a publicly traded company and their stock is traded on the TSX-V stock exchange under the symbol ECM. The company was founded by Richard Bouziane and Rodier Michaud 25 years ago and went public in 2007. They also operate an industrial scale pilot plant in Contrecoeur, Quebec with two reactors that are capable of processing 6.5 tons of tire waste each in less than eight hours.
Ultragen International has been awarded the engineering, procurement, construction and management service agreement for this project. They are a Boucherville, Quebec-based engineering company.
According to Business Insider, Ecolomondo is a cleantech Canadian company that is commercializing its waste-to-products technology. The thermal decomposition process (TPD) converts hydrocarbon waste into marketable commodity end products, specifically carbon black substitute, oil, gas and steel. Technologies such as Ecolomondo's are predicted to play an important role in resource recovery critical to future sustainability. Their management strongly believes that technological progress in areas of emissions, process optimization, automation, end-product processing and safety, position Ecolomondo to become an industry leader. Main revenues will come from the sale of TPD turnkey facilities and royalties from their operations. These facilities will produce revenues from the sale of end-products, tipping fees and carbon credits. Their first focus is to market TDP turnkey facilities that use scrap tires as a feedstock, because scrap tires yield end-products with a higher commercial value, especially the recycled carbon black.
