AkzoNobel and Black Bear Team up to Make Powder Coatings from Old Tires
AMSTERDAM - Tires that have reached the end of the road are being harvested for carbon black and used to produce powder coatings in a new cooperation between AkzoNobel and Dutch company Black Bear.
The Cradle-to-Cradle™ certified carbon black supplied by Black Bear, which is obtained from end-of-life tires, is being used as pigment in the eco-premium products developed by AkzoNobel's Powder Coatings business. With this cooperation AkzoNobel not only uses carbon black, traditionally obtained from fossil fuels, with a vastly lower CO2 footprint, but also helps to solve the global waste-tire problem.