Shercom: Advancing Value-Added Products

想象一下，数十万个轮胎挤满了垃圾填埋场，浪费了大量的房地产，往往是昆虫或虫害的滋生地。如果着火，它们会燃烧数天，释放出有害气体。自1993年以来，Shercom Industries一直在加拿大，特别是在萨斯喀彻温省和安大略省收集、粉碎和创造轮胎增值产品。企业的运营与社会日益增长的环境责任意识相一致，通过回收和减少废物。通过成功地种植轮胎，Shercom从数百万磅的粉碎轮胎中收集、粉碎并创造了增值产品。为了提高减速带和停车场障碍物/路缘产品的耐用性，Shercom工程师Landon Olsen与里贾纳大学的Stlling博士合作。 斯蒂林博士利用她在各种废弃物的增值加工和产品开发方面的专业知识，利用碾碎的轮胎碎屑和塑料制造出了生物复合材料。回收散落在乡间的谷物袋提供了一种聚乙烯来源，可以用来提高Shercom的路缘产品的强度和耐用性。NSERC Engage赞助的研究和开发专门针对路缘产品的固定螺栓附近发生的故障，特别是减速带。通过改善材料性能和优化设计几何形状，功能强度与能量吸收和弹性可能更好地匹配，以吸收来自车辆通过减速带的冲击。更少的故障和更长的产品寿命的承诺提高了市场适销性，从而增加了轮胎的回收利用。这项研究将产品组成和制造过程中的变化的特性表征与产品设计相结合，以评估减速带的功能性能。其结果将是一种创新的聚乙烯和轮胎屑生物复合材料，形成用于商业化的功能性终端产品。其影响将是减少我们在垃圾填埋场的足迹，因为轮胎和谷物袋被回收，Shercom制造和销售一种改进的产品，在国内和国际上。

Imagine hundreds of thousands of tires cluttering landfills and wasting enormous real estate, often being a breeding site for insects or infestation. If caught on fire, they smoulder for days and release harmful emissions. Since 1993, Shercom Industries has been collecting, crushing and creating value-added products from tires in Canada, specifically, in Saskatchewan and Ontario. The corporate operation aligns with society's increasing environmentally responsible consciousness by recycling and reducing waste. By successfully farming tires, Shercom has collected, crushed and created value-added products from millions of pounds of crushed tire. To improve the durability of their speed bump and parking lot barrier/curb products, Shercom engineer, Landon Olsen, has teamed with Dr. Stilling at the University of Regina. Dr. Stilling draws on her expertise in value-added processing and product development from various waste streams to create biocomposites using crushed tire crumb and plastics. Reclaiming grain bags that litter the countryside provides a source of polyethylene that may be used to improve the strength and durability of Shercom's curb products. This NSERC Engage sponsored research and development specifically tackles the failures that occur near the securing bolt of the curb products, specifically, speed bumps. By improving material properties and optimizing design geometry, the functional strength and energy absorption and resilience may be better matched to absorb the impact from vehicles crossing the speed bump. The promise of fewer failures and increased product life improves marketability resulting in increased tires being returned for beneficial use.The research integrates property characterization for variations in product composition and manufacturing processes along with product designs to assess the functional performance of the speed bumps. The results will be an innovative polyethylene and tire crumb biocomposite formed into a functional end product for commercialized. The impact will be decreasing our footprint in landfills as tires and grain bags are reclaimed with Shercom manufacturing and marketing an improved product, nationally and internationally.