The program, with a total of $3.85 million in funding over two and a half years, is designed to increase demand for California tire-derived products by building capacity and improving cost efficiencies of tire-derived product businesses. These businesses produce molded products, rubberized mulch, playground coverings, sports surfacing materials and other products.
According to Ed Boisson, R.W. Beck’s project manager, "This program will strengthen the overall economics and resiliency of California's scrap tire recycling infrastructure, a critical step toward achieving the CIWMB's ambitious 90 percent scrap tire diversion rate goal by 2015."
The BAP replaces the state’s Waste Tire Commercialization Grant Program. The BAP will offer a range of private business assistance services. "This new, ambitious program will provide additional depth to the board's existing, exemplary market development programs, and could provide a model for other efforts beyond waste tires -- both in California and nationwide," Boisson says.
In conjunction with a number of sub-consultants, R. W. Beck will coordinate two teams to implement the program. Key partners include: The Corporation for Manufacturing Excellence, California Manufacturing Technology Consultants, Underwriter's Laboratory, AMPros Corporation and public relations firm Riester-Robb Pacific.
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