Based in Motherwell, Scotland, UK Rubber (UKR) has more than 40 years’ waste management experience.

Now a biotechnology solutions provider — and a market leader in the handling of end-of-life tyres — the rapidly-growing business is passionate about the responsible recycling of these notoriously tricky rubber products. Having established the country’s first industrial-scale tyre recycling plant, the result is not only landfill diversion, but the reuse and recovery of as much valuable material as possible.

Tyres have long been considered an economically unshreddable product, due to their heavy-duty nature and the high level of wear and tear that traditional highspeed tyre shredders are usually subjected to. But, with an estimated 50,000 tonnes of tyre waste produced in the UK every year — and counting — UKR continued to seek an effective method of processing this large volume of bulky material. The search for a robust and industry-proven tyre shredding and separation solution therefore began.