{"id":247515,"date":"2026-05-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/rubber-reborn-mcmaster-startup-converts-tire-waste-into-sustainable-solutions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:05:09","slug":"rubber-reborn-mcmaster-startup-converts-tire-waste-into-sustainable-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/rubber-reborn-mcmaster-startup-converts-tire-waste-into-sustainable-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubber reborn: McMaster startup converts tire waste into sustainable solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rubber reborn: McMaster startup converts tire waste into sustainable solutions<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.technology.org\/2026\/05\/17\/rubber-reborn-mcmaster-startup-converts-tire-waste-into-sustainable-solutions\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-17 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.technology.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike Brook\u2019s Neopara Materials combines a novel ingredient with tire rubber to create new materials \u2013 like hockey pucks.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"McMaster<\/p>\n

McMaster researcher Mike Brook inside his lab with a fragment of a rubber tire. His startup, Neopara Materials, is repurposing tire rubber using a special reinforcing filler ingredient, diverting waste from landfills and lowering carbon emissions. Image credit: McMaster University<\/p>\n

A\u00a0McMaster startup is\u00a0turning old rubber tires into new\u00a0materials used in construction, reducing waste and carbon emissions along the way.<\/p>\n

Neopara Materials has created a reinforcing filler ingredient made with ground-up tires that can be converted into silicone, polyurethane and epoxy resin products like sealants, coatings and adhesives.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur whole business is upvaluing rubber crumb, which\u00a0is a widely available form of waste, and coating it with\u00a0ingredients\u00a0that enable\u00a0the material to\u00a0be\u00a0remade\u00a0into something new,\u201d says\u00a0Neopara\u00a0chief scientific officer\u00a0Mike Brook,\u00a0a professor emeritus of Chemistry\u00a0whose\u00a0four decades of silicon chemistry research at McMaster\u00a0has formed the basis for this green initiative.<\/p>\n

In 2020, the McMaster researchers\u00a0discovered a novel way to break down and dissolve the rubber used in tires\u00a0that would extract\u00a0the petroleum-based polymers from which the tires are made and enable them to be repurposed.<\/p>\n

The first real test of this technology has been facilitated through a partnership with Hyundai Canada by transforming old tires into brand new, sustainable hockey pucks, with rubber crumb provided at no cost by the Brantford-based company CRM of Canada.<\/p>\n

Once they coat the surface of that rubber crumb with their \u201cpatent pending\u201d ingredient, the crumb is able to maintain its structure while replacing silicone, polyurethane or epoxy in a variety of applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u00a0Neopara\u2019s\u00a0solution does is it turns the rubber crumb into a material that\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0know\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0not\u00a0a…<\/p>\n

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