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NEWSLETTER - N°3
July
EDITORIAL
Happy Birthday to BlackCycle!

Born the 1st of may 2020, in a very difficult sanitary and economical context, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation funded project BLACKCYCLE gathers 13 partners fully committed in creating a New Circular Economy in the Tire Industry. With a unique set of competencies working together all along the Tire Value Chain, BLACKCYCLE has the potential of a GAME CHANGER.

As Coordinator of the Consortium for Michelin Group, we are today very proud of his first Year that has demonstrated our Resilience and Cooperation spirit. Resilience was key to adapt with agility from the first day our action plan to the different local lockdowns and find new solutions: relationships between PEOPLE was a key success factor to generate the more frugal and efficient options of Cooperation.

First results have been delivered during this first year showing the feasibility at small scale of our ability to create high tech Secondary Raw Materials from End of Life Tire: these initial achievement put the Consortium on very promising path to generate a new economical circular model that preserve both PLANET & VALUE.

Keep the move for the Green Revolution! 

Margarita DORATO, BLACKCYCLE Technical Director
Michaël COGNE, BLACKCYCLE Director


BLACKCYCLE is supported under the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union, focusing to a greener, more resource efficient and climate-resilient economy. European industry is the cornerstone of EU's growth and competitiveness, and raw materials are crucial to meet the energy and climate targets for 2030 and to minimise the environmental impacts and risks. A key expected impact of BLACKCYCLE is to secure a sustainable supply of raw materials in the tire industry by integrating the whole value chain and by developing new processing technologies. Thanks to the collaboration between research and industrial partners, BLACKCYCLE results will allow to scale up the technologies and to demonstrate them in operational environment.

Floriana LA MARCA, BLACKCYCLE Project Officer
ACTIONS AND PROGRESS MADE
IN FIRST YEAR OF BLACKCYLE
 
- AXELERA: 
Created in 2005 in the Rhône-Alpes region of France, Axelera is the French cluster at the crossroads of the chemical and environmental sectors. Axelera is recognised as an "Innovative project factory.” Economically, this region is ranked second in France (7th in Europe) and is also known as the first chemical production region in France. Axelera is committed to developing sustainable, efficient, circular, and clean solutions for industry.
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- ORION:
One central target of the BlackCycle project is to produce so-called Sustainable Carbon Black (sCB) from recovered oils (r-oil) from the pyrolysis process using End-of Life Tires (ELT) as feedstock.
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- SISENER:
During this first year of the BlackCycle project different progress have been accomplished in the existing pyrolysis plant and future TRL7 distillation line.
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- CPERI / CERTH:
CPERI/CERTH has long expertise in the development of catalytic processes for the production of renewable energy and other products. Our involvement in BLACKCYCLE is two-fold: optimization of the pyrolysis process of End-of-Life-Tires by applying novel catalytic pyrolysis concepts and upgrading of the pyrolytic oil via catalytic processes, such as hydrodesulphurization and aromatization. During the first year of the project, good collaboration was established between the partners and significant progress was made for each task.
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 		 - ESTATO:
ESTATO Umweltservice GmbH is one industrial partner with long-term experiences in ELT recycling and as part of the H2020-Project BlackCycle involved in different workpackages but leader of workpackage 4 "Tyre selection“. 
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- ICAMCYL:
The Raw Materials Information System (RMIS) is an instrument of the European Commission, developed by the Directorate-General (DG) Joint Research Centre (JRC) in cooperation with the DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROWTH). The RMIS is the Commission’s reference web-based knowledge platform on non-fuel, non-agricultural raw materials from primary and secondary sources and provides an overview of the European raw materials context.
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- QUANTIS:
Quantis’ work during the 1st year (M1-M12) of BlackCycle was focused on the preparation of the framework for the health & safety, sustainability and economic assessments and the data feeding into the Raw Materials Information System of the European Commission.
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- MICHELIN:
The BlackCycle project aims at creating, developing, and optimizing a full value chain form ELT feedstock to Secondary Raw Materials (SRMs), with no waste of resources in any part of the chain and a specific attention for the environmental impact. These SRMs will be used to develop new ranges of passenger car and truck tyres, which will be sold commercially in European and global markets.
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PARTNER FOCUS
MICHELIN - FRANCE – COORDINATOR
 

About Michelin 

Michelin, the leading mobility company, founded in 1889, is dedicated to enhancing its clients’ mobility, sustainably; designing and distributing the most suitable tires, services and solutions for its clients’ needs; providing digital services, maps and guides to help enrich trips and travels and make them unique experiences; and developing high technology materials that serve a variety of industries. Headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Michelin is present in 170 countries, has 123,600 employees and operates 71 tire production facilities which together produced around 170 million tires in 2020.
 
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UPCOMING EVENTS
LCM Conference Series - 05 to 08 september

The LCM (Life Cycle Management) conference series is one of the world’s leading forums for environmental, economic and social sustainability. The focus is on practical solutions for the implementation of life cycle approaches into strategic and operational decision-making, whether in science, industry, NGOs or public institutions. It takes place every second year, each time organized by a leading research institution and industry in the domain.
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