Engineering Biology for Chemicals and Materials
ENGINEERING BIOLOGY FOR CHEMICALS AND MATERIALS
Recircle engineers enzymes that unlock chemical building blocks and drop-in materials from end-of-life tyres and rubber goods. At ambient temperature. Ready for industry.
Hello, we are Recircle.
We are an industrial biotechnology company. Our proprietary enzymes dismantle the cross linked rubber matrix so that we recover the contents: carbon black, silica, process oils, waxes and a stream of reactive oligomers ready to become new materials.
We brings together biotechnology, chemistry and process engineering. After five years of hard science, we are scaling up.
THE PROBLEM
Industry needs new feedstocks. They’re sitting in a waste pile.
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Locked into fossil feedstocks
Renewable feedstocks for the chemical and rubber industries are neither readily available nor cost-competitive.
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Recovered materials fall short
Material recovered from waste today don’t match the performance and properties of virgin grades.
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Value left stranded
Every year the world generates 58 million tonnes of rubber waste, full of high-value molecules that industry has no way to access
OUR TECHNOLOGY
Biotech that unlocks value.
Our proprietary enzymes break rubber waste down into its core building blocks at ambient temperature. The result is high-quality materials, ready for industry.
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Enzyme Production
Our proprietary enzymes are grown under controlled conditions.
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Separation and recovery
We isolate oligomers, fillers, oils and waxes, each recovered for its own market
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Digestion
Enzymes target specific chemistry to break down the rubber matrix.
WHAT WE RECOVER
One waste stream. Five products
Produced from real end-of-life tyre waste. Building blocks for specialty chemicals, plus drop-in replacements for the materials industry already buys.
BUILDING BLOCKS
Functional Oligomers
Reactive building blocks recovered from rubber waste. Our largest product stream, and the starting point for high value industry applications.
DROP-IN
Carbon Black
Graded carbon black for tyres and rubber goods
DROP-IN
Process oils
Recovered for refining and direct reuse in new rubber compounds.
DROP-IN
Silica
Highly dispersible silica for tyres and footwear.
DROP-IN
Waxes
Recovered alongside the oils and refined for the market.
APPLICATIONS CATEGORIES
Oligomer Platform Solution for industry
Use our molecules as they are, or take them one or two steps further into higher-value chemistry.
Adhesives & sealants
Paint, coatings & inks
Foams & elastomers
Footwear
Tyres & Rubber goods
Aerospace & wind
Plastics & composites
MOMENTUM
Five years of hard science. Now scaling supply
Industry engagement
We work closely with companies across the chemical and rubber value chain to test and validate our materials.
Pull from the market
Industry wants high-performance materials from waste, and the demand for ours is growing fast.
Scale-up underway
Pilot trials with scale-up partner, on the road to our first demonstration plant.
Test it. Build it. Back it.
MATERIAL PRODUCERS
Test our materials
Request samples of our recovered materials and test them in your own formulations.
INDUSTRY PARTNERS
Build with us
Co-develop new applications and become a long-term partner as we scale.
INVESTORS
Grow with us
Recircle is entering its next phase of growth. We’d love to hear from investors who share our vision.