The history of tire recycling efforts in Canada will provide unique insights and understanding of methods of recycling and manufacturing of finished products. It will highlight key events that impacted the rubber recycling and end-of-life tire (ELT) industry in Canada in the recent past.
Pliteq as a large and global manufacturer of products from ELT has a unique perspective with which to view all of the technological and commercial developments over the last 30 years.
The seminar will look at the last few decades of building technical expertise and national and international technical and commercial developments. All of the methods of manufacturing, from the various methods employed to reduce ELT to powder formats, and the various processes employed to recycle ELT. The processes are devulcanization, pyrolysis, tire derived fuel (TDF), rubber modified asphalt (RMA) and various methods of molding and rubber products manufacturing (RPM). A detailed review of Pliteq’s manufacturing processes will be given.
BIOGRAPHY:
I founded the engineering company, Pliteq in 2006 and have applied 25 years of
engineering, manufacturing, R&D, and business development experience to ensure the
success of our business based on recycled tire products.
I completed my Chemical Engineering thesis at the University of Western Ontario in
1991. I was one of the first researchers globally in the development and use of materials
from recycled tires and was focused on engineering such products. I later moved to
Toronto to help design and build one of the largest scrap tire recycling plants in the
world.
Over the years I transitioned from engineering and plant management into research and
development and then to product and business development. Today, I am the inventor
of over 20 applications globally. These inventions bear the brand names such as
GenieClip® , GenieMat®, and Pliteq TREAD™.
Our products are all manufactured in the Toronto area and sold around the world
through our own established sales and engineering offices, with local warehousing
facilities. Following our early development and success in North America, we opened an
office in the United Kingdom in 2010, then in the UAE in 2013 and later in Singapore in
2016. Our company was recently named a Canada’s Best Managed new winner and I’m
very proud of the team we’ve built over the last 10+ years.
I am a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario and have enjoyed lecturing at the
Western University in Chemical Engineering in the areas of Green Technology, Solid
Waste Management and Plant Design.
I am a sports enthusiast, a former professional tennis player and like many, a long suffering Leafs fan. I live in Toronto with my wife Donna, and together we have 5
children between the ages of 19 and 28.