UK scrap tyre specialists Saltire Recovery and Sapphire Energy Recovery (SER) have signed a contract with auto service retailer Stapleton’s Tyre Services (STS) which may mean Saltire and SER receiving more than 1 million end-of-life tyres in each of the next three years. The contract came about after a chance meeting between the parties at the launch of Sapphire’s new tyre processing facility in Manchester in mid-2006. A joint venture between Lafarge Cement UK and Michelin, SER annually consumes more than 100 000 used tyres as a fuel for cement kilns while STS sells more than 4 million tyres per annum and takes in more than 1 million used tyres.
