DRI Rubber: Making an Environmentally Sustainable Impact on the Tire & Rubber Industry

“By putting great value into sustainable entrepreneurship, we want to stand out in the market,” says Robert de Ruijter, CEO of DRI Rubber. “We have successfully integrated into the global rubber and tire industry, reprocessing and upcycling waste streams (both the regular and more difficult rubber waste streams) and by-products into all sorts of high-quality, consistent, and reliable products and solutions, reducing waste in the process and therefore lowering the environmental footprint of the global rubber and tire industry.”

It all starts with the tire industry, as DRI Rubber services the global tire plants, among others Goodyear, Continental, and Michelin. “We provide many logistical solutions, helping reduce waste in the process. We offer toll manufacturing, coordinating the rubber waste management, and with our closed-loop solutions, we are even able to directly give back to the supplier. That is how we can really invest in the circular economy, reducing prime material usage and the CO2 footprint. And by keeping this in the (local) region as much as possible, we also reduce transport emissions and costs. Because of our global presence, we can reprocess 50.000 metric tons of rubber waste yearly.”

“DRI Rubber offers the widest range of compounds, materials, and finished products for various applications. We develop reprocessed compounds and fiber-reinforced compounds, also known as FRC©. We also introduced our new Sustacom© products, circular rubber compounds, based on the best practice application requirements. We supply entire industries with these products. Our finished products also cover a lot of applications. Our rubber mats, for example, can be used for industrial or agricultural uses. We also make products for the mining, automotive, and transportation industry.”

“We are unique in providing technical support to our customers in application and process optimization to realize sustainable cost reductions and consistent performance with our materials and finished products.”