Reklaim, Inc. is a next-generation technology company that is transforming the way the world manages scrap tires. We are launching a new sector in the Green Economy— manufacturing high quality, competitively priced products; generating attractive economic returns; providing a beneficial new use for scrap tires; reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and conserving valuable energy resources.

After years of trial, innovation, and investment, we have developed a technology that recycles crumb rubber from scrap tires to create a family of KRAKEN™ carbon black products and fuel oils, which are currently produced and sold from our manufacturing facility in Boardman, Oregon.

By 2017, Reklaim will annually reduce by more than 25 percent the volume of scrap tires that might otherwise be sent to landfills or burned as fuel.

Meeting a Need

Each year, the United States generates an estimated 300 million scrap tires. That's one discarded tire for every American man, woman, and child. Standing tread-to-tread, a single year's worth would go around the world almost seven times!

More than 50% of these scrap tires are shredded and sold for relatively low-value uses such as tire-derived fuel-a substitute for coal that generates significant greenhouse gases and other emissions. Another 45 million are dumped into landfills, which produces numerous potential environmental and public health risks.

The scrap tire industry in the U.S. is a well-established network of companies. It generates over $500 million in annual revenue and employs more than 10,000 people. However, the potential to recycle scrap tires into higher-value products has constituted an enormous, largely untapped economic and environmental opportunity. Until Reklaim.

Smart GREEN Solutions

• Each Reklaim processing facility is designed to divert more than 1.6 million tires from the waste stream every year.
• Reklaim recycles. Rubber from scrap tires—100% post-consumer waste—comprises all of Reklaim's feedstock.
• Our technology extracts high quality, competitively priced carbon black from recycled scrap tires with minimal release of greenhouse gas emissions.
• Compared with the conventional method of producing carbon black, a single Reklaim plant is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as taking 2,250 cars off the road.
• Reklaim fuel oils represent a sustainable domestic source of petroleum-based products.