Liberty Tire Recycling held an early December Grand Opening event for its newly renovated and expanded facility in Grove City, Ohio, just south of Columbus.
The 27,000-square-foot facility can recycle about 5 million tires annually, according to the company. Liberty is billing it as the largest tire recycling facility in Ohio. The end products to be made at the plant include:
- infill material for artificial turf fields
- mulch and playground products
- fuel
- scrap steel
- base for landfill construction
- brake pads
- asphalt paving additives
- sealant additives
- manufactured items like pavers, mats, molded and extruded rubber goods
- and ingredients that can be recycled back into new tires.
Liberty has invested approximately $4 million in constructing the operation, including a $350,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. At the Open House, Jeff Kendall, CEO of Liberty, thanked Sean Logan, the Director of the Ohio of Department of Natural Resources, and his staff for their assistance in developing the new facility.
Liberty has operated this facility and a similar facility in Minerva, Ohio since 2002. The company says it has processed and recycled more than 50 million tires in that time.
Within the Buckeye State, Liberty’s recycled material is used by a variety of other Ohio companies including:
- Paper maker Glatfelter Co., Chillicothe, Ohio, which uses the rubber as fuel
- Groundscape, Cleveland, makes the product into mulch for gardens and playgrounds
- Puritan Systems Inc., Kent, Ohio, converts the rubber into raw material for new tires; and
- Civil engineering products used by Waste Management, Sunny Farms and Apex Sanitary Landfills
Liberty is also adding additional equipment in Grove City to accommodate a Groundscape mulch coloring and bagging process. The operation will be capable of making more than 40 million pounds of colored mulch annually.
Liberty Tire, headquartered in Pittsburgh, will collect and recycle approximately 70 million scrap tires in 2007 at 12 twelve locations through the United States.
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