A proposed tire shredding plant hopes to receive a conditional use permit by the city of Tulare, Calif., Planning Commission. STR Enterprises will be going before the Planning Commission March 1 to describe what it proposes to do at the location.
Don Searcy, the representative for the company, said while the company plans on starting small, it hopes to grow to become a full-blown crumb rubber operation. To start, if the company receives a conditional use permit it will be taking in one truckload of tires a day. Searcy estimates that they will be processing around 500,000 tires a year.
The company also will be performing all the processing indoors, according to Bonnie Simoes, with the County’s Planning Commission.
The proposed location is already zoned properly for the operation. If the company receives the permit the company could start to bring in equipment by early May.
Tires would be brought onto the site in trailers and stored in the trailers until they are processed, Simoes said, adding the tires would first be shredded into small pieces and then crumbled into small particles.