Post-industrial Rubber Scrap

Post-industrial Rubber Scrap

Rubber is a versatile material that has played an essential role in the development of many industrial products. From waterproof clothing to car tires, the history of rubber and its applications in the manufacturing industry is fascinating, and the material itself has been refined and adapted to suit a wide range of uses.

Because of its long history, rubber has many uses in the industrial and manufacturing industries today, playing a large role in the development of many products across the globe. Still, the rubber manufacturing sector generates from a few percent to a larger fraction of scrap, in terms of rubber compounds not to specs, compounded rubber residing long before usage, flash and runners, bad parts, test parts, etc., known as post-industrial wastes that often end up in garbage bins.
Keeping such post-industrial rubber scrap clean and segregated is a challenge on fast-paced manufacturing floors. Progressive tire manufacturers grind scrap rubber (mostly, SBR or Styrene Butadiene Rubber) to put back as still vulcanized rubber powder. A better technology is to remove the vulcanizing packages and de-vulcanize vulcanized rubber for better processing.