There are so many environmental concerns regarding this it will most likely be insurmountable. The operating and maintenance expenses are enormous.
High competition for obtaining scrap tires could affect not only consistency of supply of raw materials, but could also put downward pressure on tipping fees and increase transportation costs for obtaining tires outside the nominal acquisition territory. In one scenario, for example, the facility barely broke even if tire availability was limited to 14,000 tons per year, tipping fees dropped by about 1/3, and transportation distances exceeded about four times the nominal acquisition radius.
The break-even start-up cost will probably be somewhere between $10 and $15 million. Has anyone studied the demand for crumb? Several U.S. based tire recyclers have folded in recent years. There needs to be a govt. subsidy program for this type of plant to be feasible. I have read several feasibility studies on tire crumb recycling. It takes lots of talent and massive work just to break even. I know the people involved here, there is no talent, only bs.
And then there's the fact that SLJB Petar Vucicevich was going to do this. Petar, front man for Andrew DeVries and friend of Chad Curtis, who then became the CEO of MDOR, passed the baton to Chad Curtis so to speak after the SLJB scam was revealed. A new front man was born.
Quote 03-19-08
"Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." ~Benjamin Franklin to John Hancock
Quote 03-19-08
"Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." ~Benjamin Franklin to John Hancock
