Italian seminar to promote the use of recycled rubber

The Brussels-based European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA), in cooperation with the Italian National Association of Local Authority Technicians (ANTEL), and the Italian Recyclers Association (ARGO), are hosting the one-day seminar, “Flex and the city: Rubberised asphalt and recycled tyre products and applications for roads and urban furniture.”

The event will be held in Treviso, Italy, just outside of Venice, on October 22, 2015, at the Sant’Artemio Head Office of the Province of Treviso. (This story reflects the revised date of Oct. 22.)

The seminar is designed to illustrate the many uses of recycled tyre rubber in road and urban furniture applications, highlighting the flexibility of use and the high performance of the materials. Topics will include the uses of rubberized asphalt and reinforced concrete, and the impacts of these materials in the reduction of road and rail vibration as well as noise insulation.

ETRA says the programme will bring together representatives from the tyre recycling sector as well as the technicians involved in public works, as speakers and delegates. The target audience includes developers, implementers, engineers and technicians in the public and private sectors who design and install public works, as well as ETRA and ARGO members who produce and provide the raw materials for the projects.

The venue is an historic palace situated in Treviso’s Storga Park that will accommodate 250 delegates, with space for product exhibitions and posters. The sessions will be presented in both English and Italian, ETRA says.

For more information, contact ETRA via email at back-office@etra-eu.org.