Dive Brief:
- Viva SC Recycling, a recycler of tires and rubber waste, plans to open a new tire recycling plant in Anderson, SC by the end of 2014.
- The Moncks Corner, SC-based company anticipates a $7 million investment in the facility. Operations at the plant will include manufacturing and recycling capabilities.
- Viva notes the new plant could process over four million tires annually, about the same volume as its current tire recycling plant in Moncks Corner.
Dive Insight:
The company uses discarded tires from numerous sources: landfills, vehicles, municipalities, and tire retailers. Viva processes scrap tires for its line of recycled rubber products, PermaLife. The end products are used in household and commercial products such as landscape mulch, playground covering, rubber sidewalks, and rubberized asphalt.
In May of 2014, Genan Inc. opened a cutting-edge tire recycling and rubber plant in Houston, TX. The company says it is the world’s largest tire recycling facility in the world at this time. The $140 million plant can handle up to 10 million tires annually.
