Silver Lining Tire Recycling brian@silverliningtirerecycling.com
3776 Eleventh Street
Wyandotte, MI 48192
Brian Radtke – General Manager Mike Wellington -Production Manager
Fax: 734-324-4990
About Us
Frank Mangiapane designed a system, with the help of Columbus McKinnon, that recycles tires in large volumes. Silver Lining Tire Recycling is committed to recycling 100% of all scrap tires, and was looking to increase productivity, which has now reached between 10 and 12 tons of finished product per hour.
Our system includes a primary shredder and a secondary shredder. The system reduces whole tires down to 2-inch minus tire chips, which are run under a magnet to remove any steel.
From "The Wyandotte Echo"
Thursday, December 1, 2005
Local Plant has Silver Lining
By Rosean Gabrys
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Magiapane gave up a life of retirement in Florida and returned to Michigan so they could re-establish their tire recycling company. Even though they'd done well in Detroit for 20 years, the new owners weren't able to follow in their tire tracks and manage the business successfully.
Wyandotte is certainly fortunate that such an environmentally outstanding operation chose to negotiate a contract in Wyandotte. Silver Lining Tire Recycling is the sole supplier of me-derived fuel (TDF) for the Wyandotte Municipal Power Plant. TDF has a higher Btu heating value than coal, it is half the price of coal and produces similar emissions. About 13,000 tons of TDF, the equivalent of 2.6 million scrap tires, were consumed at the power plant in 2001.
Operating a special machine called a de-beader also allows them to shred large semi-truck tires. The steel coil around the edge of the rim is hydraulically extracted and the rest of the rubber can then be put through the shredding machines without damaging or dulling the cutting blades. Trucks drive in with deliveries and the tires go up a conveyor belt, run through the shredding machine – about two-and-a-half times – across vibrating conveyor belts, which help measure and determine when the pieces are under the two-inch secondary size required. From there, the piles are loaded, while still inside the building, on trucks for delivery to the power plant.
Silver Lining opened for business October 1, 2004, and processes about 1 million tires per year, most of those come from recognizable tire company names. There are also other vendors who supply them with primary shredded materials for back-up stock. Silver Lining is the only processing site in Michigan that operates completely indoors. It is a security feature and makes the facility a good neighbor.
Magiapane takes pride in providing employment for Wyandotte's residents and has 20 people on his payroll. The high school co-op program sends him a lot of great recruits; the students could be earning money toward college but about 90 percent of them stay on after graduation, working full time and receiving benefits with their wages.
Silver Lining bids for contracts with their suppliers and currently hopes to negotiate a deal with Wal-Mart and is growing daily and receives a number of referrals from the Department of Environmental Quality. Individuals can drop off their tires as well; you'd expect to pay about a dollar per tire for proper disposal. The business is located at 3776 11th Street, the former location of the Karmazin plant.
It only takes a few minutes to turn potentially hazardous waste into an alternative fuel that is less expensive and supplied locally, keeping Wyandotte's citizens more secure during these days of economic energy concerns; Silver Lining is a great benefit to the citizens of Wyandotte. Honorable James DeSana Re: Tire Derived Fuel as a Renewable Dear Mayor DeSana: Wyandotte Municipal Power Plant would like to express support for Tire Derived Fuel (TDF) as a Renewable Energy source. TDF is composed of 15% natural rubber as a component of the tire. As such, we feel the use of natural rubber from tires should be considered a renewable. At Wyandotte Municipal, we currently burn the equivalent of over 2,800,000 tires a year. This use of the tires allows us to offset the burning of coal .By burning these tires in the appropriate facility, the tires are not sent to occupy needed landfill space. The tires we burn are processed in Wyandotte at Silver Lining Tire Recycling and provide 24 additional jobs to our community. Among other contracts, Silver Lining has an exclusive contract with Belle Tire servicing over 80 stores in Michigan. The steel from the tires is also recycled to local steel manufactures, offsetting the need to consume the additional raw natural resources for steel production. Silver Lining is able to recycle over 200,000 tires per month, the majority of which is sent to Wyandotte Municipal for fuel. Wyandotte Boiler #8 has been permitted to burn 55% TDF. We feel the burning of tires in a facility designed to effectively capture emissions should be encouraged. If there are any questions, please feel free to contact me. Respectfully, M. L. McCoy
January 12, 2008
3131 Biddle Ave.
Wyandotte, MI 48192
GM, Wyandotte Municipal Services
Letter from Wyandotte Municipal Services
