Stephan Rau

With a Dipl. -Ing. and master's in mechanical engineering, Stephan started at Magna Car Top Systems as a test engineer in 2000. He moved to Michelin Reifenwerke in 2006, where he undertook various roles – technical account manager truck, test manager, Michelin Challenge Bibdendum, and head of product and motorsports communication. Stephan has been the managing technical director at the German Rubber Manufacturers Association since moving from Michelin Reifenwerke in 2013.

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Presentation

Where have all the tyres gone?

The circular economy for used tyres is a good example of recycling that works. To keep it that way, it depends on reliable market statistics. The German Rubber Manufacturers Association (wdk) has been recording the volume of used tyres in Germany for almost a quarter of a century and draws important conclusions from this. However, waste tyre disposal companies and recyclers have been recording dwindling volumes on the German market for some time. It is suspected that these quantities are being exported to non-EU countries to be incinerated or recycled using environmentally unsound methods.