Syntoil

We throw away more than 1 billion used tires each year. Many are burried, most are burned, and a part are being recycled. After the recycling a product called contaminated soot is being created. Today all tire-recycling companies are sending this contaminated soot to burn it into cement plants. We clean this contaminated soot and transform it into a recovered carbon black so it doesn't have to be burned and can be used again in the rubber and new tires production. Today rubber industry uses 14 million tonnes annually of traditional carbon black which is being obtained by burning the crude oil and 6 tonnes of CO2 per 1 tonne of traditional carbon black are being produced - it's ridiculous. At Syntoil: we produce a recovered carbon black from used tires using the circular economy.

Landfills of used tires around the world are burning. This global problem is the result of the over one billion tires that are replaced every year, which translates into over 13 million tons of waste. A part of this portion is being recycled through pyrolysis, most of them are being burned in cement factories, only a small amount are being used to strengthen roads. These methods are not, however, sufficient to solve the rubber waste problem. As long as it is simply more cost effective to illegally set fire to these ever-growing stockpiles or burn them or contaminated soot made from them in cement plants, used tires will continue to burn.

Syntoil has developed sustainable and economic breakthrough method for processing contaminated soot from used tires into industrial products operating in the circular economy. It means that products from processed tires are used in the production of rubber products

Our biggest impact is based on reduction of CO2 and using raw material (fossil fuels). Today rubber industry uses 14 million tonnes annually of traditional carbon black which is being obtained by burning crude oil and 6 tonnes of CO2/1 tonne of traditional carbon black are being produced.

People around the world want to use sustainable materials. We hear them, are want them to get rubber products made from recovered carbon black, not from carbon black obtained by burning fossil fuels. Also the rubber and tire industry want to be more sustainable: Michelin claimed that they want to use 80% of sustainable materials, (50% biosourced + 30% recycled) in tire production; Till 2050 Bridgestone claimed that they want to use 100 % of sustainable materials in tire production. For Pirelli the goal is to double the share of renewable raw materials and reduce by 30 per cent the fossil derived materials used in specific products between 2017 and 2025. Also: Semperit - a global rubber company (878 M euro revenue), claimed that their target is to increase recovered carbon black share within the next 3 years to >10% of total carbon black demand. But without the clean and sustainable recovered carbon black from used tires it all won't be possible. Our recovered carbon black can be a change maker in the rubber industry and for the final customers, and the planet - because our resources on earth are limited, and waste is too valuable to burn it.

Our solution is based on cleaning the contaminated soot from the batch pyrolysis systems into a clean recovered carbon black which is used as a filler to rubber products. It's a chemical-based and thermal-based process which was invented by us and we've applied for the patent (WIPO) for this one and our analysis concerning the free-to-operate are positive. 

Our product is called a recovered carbon black which contain below 0,5 % of ash and below 0,1 of sulphur. Our biggest competitor has 18-22% of ash. So the difference is significant. 

Contaminated soot from used tires was being burned in cement plants till now. We clean it and and it can be used again the rubber production. Our product is purer by more than 50 times than our biggest competitor.

Our technology is based on chemical and thermal process, we use the method based on less-waste process - all the parts and chemicals used during the process are being cleaned and used again the process. 

We are testing our recovered carbon black with both: rubber producers and carbon black sellers - both are testing our recovered carbon black so it could be applied in the widest rage of rubber products. 

The current number of people we’re serving: Not many right now, we're still testing our rCB with rubber producers. 

The number we’ll be serving in one year: 10 milions of car owners or 200 milions of wellington users - people who can buy rubber products made of sustainable material: 40 million of car's rubber carpets can be made = 10 millions of vehicles can be using mats/rugs made of sustainable material. Or 200 million of wellingtons. + Reduction of the emission of CO2 by 30 000 tonnes/year (it's like taking 58 824 cars off the road for a year). 1 650 000 used tires will be saved from burning, instead they will be used again in the circular economy.

The number we’ll be serving in five years: 60 milions of car owners or 1200 milions of wellington users - people who can buy rubber products made of sustainable material.

Next year: we are building the industrial version of our installation of a capacity of 6000 tonnes annually. In 5 years: we want to scale it up by 6 times, so we could get 36000 tonnes annually of recovered carbon black. 

It's always about the financials - we want to keep the green grow, to grow in a sustainable way using sustainable zero-waste method.

We are looking for financial partners who are also impact-oriented, who understands that circular economy and sustainability are as much important and financial model these days.

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We have 11 people.

Core team:

Martyna Sztaba 
CEO & co-founder | business dev., investors relations and communications
15 years of experience as a founder and CEO, COO and CMO. Previously she has run global blockchain-based startup trivial.co as a co-founder and COO. 

Piotr Jaszek
CTO & co-founder | technology
30 years of experience as a founder and CEO; 20 years in the steel industry. His previous clients: Bridgestone, Toyota, 3M.

Bogdan Sztaba
COO & co-founder | business development and r&d
40 years of experience as a founder and CEO in the industry and b2b sales. Spent 3 years in Pakistan running a textile factory. Has spent the last 7 years developing waste-free technologies.

Tomasz Obrycki
Co-founder
co-founder
30 years of experience as a housing developer and founder of different businesses in the fmcg sector and waste-free technologies.

Marcin Banach, PhD
Director of Technology and Innovation
A professor at Cracow University of Technology. He develops products
 from the recycling of rubber waste. He developed around 50 patents with a few implementations to the industry. 

Piotr Rękasowski, MA
Director of Automation Engineering
He was seting up production lines for many companies.

With different scientific units like Technical University in Kraków.

Our business model is based on selling the recovered carbon black to rubber producers.

We achieved #2 place at the global contest of Chivas Venture and we've get 250 000 USD prize (no strings attached funding) - for the industrial line, another 250 000 USD we've get from Grand Prix at TDJ Pitango Seed Competition (investment, CLA) for the scaling up. We raising now 750 000 USD more from different impact-based funds. Next year we are going to apply for the Horizon2020 grant (2,5 m euro). 

Our solution is global, because the problem which we are solving is global. It would be amazing if a Solve which is a global initiative could support our innovation. 

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MIT: concerning technology and cooperation between our and your Talents.

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We would like to utilize a prize by spending it on the R&D to find more applications for our recovered carbon black (like activate it to get activated carbon).

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