Ecolomondo Corporation announced it has completed a second successful production run at its new TDP Hawkesbury facility on January 25, 2023. The company recently performed a first batch of 1,600 lbs, on January 11, in which all of the thermal equipment performed according to expectations. The success of the first test enabled the Company to proceed with a second test on January 25, a batch with a payload of 7,000 lbs, signalling the beginning of its ramp-up phase.

The ramp-up phase will be completed when payloads achieve 16,000 lbs per batch per reactor. The Hawkesbury plant is expected to operate 330 days per year and produce 5,300 tons of recovered carbon black (rCB), 42,700 barrels of oil, 1,800 tons of steel, 1,600 tons of process gas and 850 tons of fiber. The outcome of this second batch was equally successful as the first, showing that its new generation reactors are capable of processing large quantities of scrap tire waste efficiently.

Every part of the thermal process, flare, reactor evacuation and control system worked according to expectations. The mass balance of this 7,000 lbs batch should yield approximately 2,660 lbs of recovered carbon black and approximately 7.5 barrels of oil (a barrel being 42 gallons). The successful performance of the TDP equipment reflects the experience and technical data acquired from the hundreds of batches performed during the development of the company's TDP proprietary technology since 1998 at the Contrecoeur (Quebec) industrial-size pilot plant.