Waste to value
XPYRO's patented, energy self-sufficient pyrolysis process recovers the materials locked in waste tyres. Our 10 tonne-per-day pilot plant is built, commissioned and running in Norway.
Indicative yields by weight of feedstock from pilot operation.
The challenge
Every year about one billion tyres – roughly 25 million tonnes – reach the end of their life. Europe generates 3.5 million tonnes, Norway around 65,000 tonnes. Most of it is burned as fuel or shipped far away, and the carbon in it is lost.
Our answer
Pyrolysis heats tyre chips without oxygen and breaks the rubber down into oil, a carbon-rich solid and gas. The steel wire is separated and recycled. The gas fires the process itself, so the plant runs without external fuel.
Why XPYRO
Our multi-auger, steam-integrated reactor is patented in Norway with international applications filed, and a 10 t/day pilot plant has been engineered, commissioned and operated by our team at Heimdal, Trondheim.
Pilot plant
Designed and built with Inrigo AS, supported by Innovation Norway and tested together with SINTEF Energi and Ragn-Sells. The plant was installed and commissioned at Heimdal in early 2025 and completed its first pilot run on tyre chips in July 2025.
Circular products
Everything that goes in comes out as a product. The pyrolysis gas is not sold – it is burned inside the plant to keep the reactor at temperature.
An aromatic, energy-rich liquid (~40–42 MJ/kg) for asphalt binder modification, industrial fuel and, after upgrading, chemical feedstock.
A carbon-rich solid (~81% carbon) that replaces virgin carbon black in rubber and plastics with a far lower CO₂ footprint.
Clean steel wire from the tyre carcass – about a tenth of the input by weight – recovered and sent back to the steel industry.
Milestones
Technology assessment, Innovation Norway grant, Norwegian patent filed.
Ragn-Sells tyre waste tested in a 5 kg/h reactor. International PCT application filed.
Engineering and construction of the 10 t/day plant. Norwegian patent granted June 2024.
Installed at Heimdal, test programme completed, first pilot run on tyre chips in July.
Continuous operation, product qualification with customers, and the first commercial plant.
We are looking for co-development partners, strategic investors and offtakers for recovered carbon black and pyrolysis oil.
