Valebridge Media Services (VMS), the Crewe, UK and Madrid, Spain-based media services agency, has announced the Shortlist of nominees for the 2022 edition of the Recircle Awards, the industry awards event recognising sustainable innovation, production processes, management and services within the tyre retreading and recycling industries.
Nominees Revealed for Fourteen Award Categories
The shortlist, selected from a preliminary list of candidates nominated by members of the public, was chosen by a 15-strong Nominations Committee, consisting of respected tyre industry journalists, trade association directors and independent consultants from around the world.
The shortlist of nominees for the 14 award categories which are open to the public vote is as follows:
Best Tread Rubber Supplier
– Goodyear
– Kartindo Rubber
– Pre-Q Galgo
– Marangoni
– Vipal Rubber
Best Retreading Equipment Supplier
– Central Marketing
– Italmatic
– Matteuzzi
– TRM
– Vipal Equipment
Best Retreading Accessory and Consumables Supplier
– MAE
– Presti Rubber
– Tech
– Vipal Rubber
– VM Rubber
Best Tyre Recycling Industry Supplier:
– Eco Green Equipment
– Eldan Recycling
– Fornnax
– Forrec
– Krauss Maffei
Best Tyre Derived Recycled Product:
– BASF / Vaude
– Ceyes
– Ecore International
– SustrendLab
– XTyre
Employee of the Year:
– Bernardita Diaz (Sustrend)
– Fabiano Santos (Marangoni Tread Latin America)
– Jim Foughty (Goodyear)
– Joerg Taylor (Marangoni)
– Sebastiano Tamburello (NeroForce)
Best Tyre Retreader:
– Continental
– Insa Turbo
– Marangoni
– Radburg
– Vaculug
Best Tyre Recycler:
– Genan
– GRP Ltd
– Liberty Tire
– Murfitts
– Scandinavian Enviro Systems
Best Company Director:
– Aleksey Gryshchenko (Yashina)
– Eduardo Acosta (Neumaservicio)
– Eduardo Nava (Pre-Q Galgo Corporation)
– Jim Fairweather (Tyrecycle)
– Patricia Malnati (Jomsalva SA)
Tyre Pyrolysis Award:
– Bolder Industries
– Ecolomondo
– Enrestec
– Pyrum
– Scandinavian Enviro Systems
Circular Economy Award:
– AZUR Network
– Continental
– Kal Tire
– Marangoni
– SustrendLab
Best Tyre Recycling Research Project:
– Blackcycle
– Flinders University
– Leticia Saiz Rodríguez / José María Bermejo Muñoz
– Rice University
– RMIT Australia
Best EPR Scheme:
– Ecopneus
– SDAB
– SEGINUS
– Signus Ecovalor
– Tyre Stewardship Australia
Spirit of Retreading Award:
– FM Pneus
– Gummiservice Produksjon
– Kayel Tyre Retread
– Medina-Med
– Seryt Tyres
David Wilson, Chairman of the Nominations Committee and Publisher of Retreading Business and Tyre & Rubber Recycling professed himself to be delighted with the response from the market to this year’s nominations process. “We had over 850 individual nominations for this year’s Recircle Awards,” he said, “and, once again, we were gratified to see a balanced list of shortlisted nominees from around the globe. I wish them all the very best of fortune in the forthcoming voting process.”
VMS has also announced that the voting process for the 2022 Recircle Awards is now open. Members of the public can vote for their preferred nominees by casting their vote via the Recircle Awards website at https://recircleawards.com/categories-2022/. Voting is restricted to one vote per person per award category.
The voting process will close at 23.59 GMT on Friday, March 11, 2022, and the winners of the Recircle Awards will be announced on Monday, April 25th, 2022.