Klean Industries adds supplier for tire pyrolysis project

Vancouver-based Klean Industries Inc. says it has selected Chemex Global LLC, a subsidiary of the Houston-based Shaw Group LLC, to engineer, procure and fabricate the hydrocarbon upgrading system at Klean’s Boardman, Oregon, tire pyrolysis project.

That facility is being planned to process some 20,000 metric tons per year of scrap tires. The agreement between Klean and Chemex means “both parties intend to execute the design-build contract, which includes process and schedule guarantees in the first quarter of 2023,” according to Klean.

The Boardman facility is being designed to convert scrap tires into recovered carbon black (rCB) and recovered fuel oil (rFO) that can be blended with carbon black oil (CBO) to be blended in and used in the creation of new virgin bio-based carbon black products, according to Klean.

“It’s taken some time to find the right partners for Klean’s projects that have the depth of experience needed for the timely rollout of our integrated resource recovery projects,” Klean Industries CEO Jesse Klinkhamer says. “Our projects are capital-intensive and require cost-effective and highly technical solutions that can deliver specified output products on a guaranteed basis. With more than 40 projects under development, we believe Chemex offers the solutions that best fit our timelines and budget and we look for to expanding this relationship to develop more projects together.”

Matt Rodgers, chief commercial officer of Texas-based Chemex Global, says, “Our diverse engineering capabilities combined with world-class fabrication assets enabled us to assess the project and minimize field execution to the greatest extent possible while keeping project development plans on a fixed schedule”.

The fabrication of the modular oil upgrading system will be completed by Chemex Global’s parent company The Shaw Group at its shops in the United States, including its 440,000-square-foot module facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and its pipe fabrication facilities in Walker, Louisiana, and El Dorado, Arkansas.

Klean Industries is a designer, manufacturer and installer of alternative energy solutions involving “clean power production, waste management, recycling and resource recovery.”