Blending Recycled Rubber with Recycled Plastic

RTI and its principal, Jim Anderson, realized a number of years ago that the market for selling recycled tire rubber was far from perfect, if not almost impossible to maintain a healthy bottom line if one was in that business.  RTI has been in the cryogenic tire recycling system sales for the past 6 years, and its principal, Jim Anderson, had been in it for 15 years before that.  It seemed that the only way to any success in the tire recycling industry was through Value Added.

To this end, RTI brought into being its patent pending XyCom^TM thermoplastic elastomer, which is a 100% recycled material, made from recycled tire crumb and recycled post industrial scrap plastic.  RTI manufactures and supplies all of the equipment necessary to get into this business, right from the tire shredder at the front of the system to the blending and pelletizing units at the end of the system. 

The blended cryogenic recycled rubber and the post industrial scrap plastic has been determined by the University of Toledo to have chemically bonded in the patent pending process, and effectively produced a new composite material that is a thermoplastic elastomer.  Testing has shown that the properties of XyCom^TM are all well within the ASTM specs of virgin TPEs.

One other attribute that is characteristic of XyCom^TM is that in the injection molding process of producing a product with this new composite the cycle times of the machines can be reduced by up to 20%.  Also, the injection molding machines can begin using XyCom^TM in their process with only normal cleanup after using XyCom^TM.