Emanuel Tire Company, under the leadership of Norman Emanuel, has been in the tire business since 1957 and has grown into four recycling plants located in Baltimore, Maryland - Appomattox, Virginia - Waverly, Virginia - and Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. We have received national recognition for our efforts to establish standards in the scrap tire industry and for deriving new uses for shredded tires.

There are many existing and promising markets for tire derived products. Existing end use markets include:

• RRIM – Rubber Reclaim Industry Material (Tire chips shred to customer specification). RRIM is further reduced by the customer into crumb rubber (CR). One use of CR is the process of mixing asphalt paving material with crumb rubber to make road surface material.
  
  
• Civil Engineering – Tire chips are use in civil engineering projects. Applications include landfill cell development and lightweight backfill.
  
  
• SSM – Septic System Material. Tire chips used in drainage fields of residential and commercial septic systems.
  
  
• Sound Wall Material – Tire chips mixed with concrete used as a highway sound barrier.
  
  
• (Safe-T-Footing) – Horse arena footing.
  
  
• (Safe-T-Play) – Playground material.
  
  
• TDF - Tire Derived Fuel. TDF is an alternate fuel that is used in many industrial boilers throughout the country.
  

Emanuel Tire Company typically receives scrap tires four ways:

1. Companies transport tires to our plant where Emanuel Tire personnel unload them.
   
   
2. Emanuel Tire trucks offer route pickup service in metropolitan areas.
   
   
3. Emanuel Tire trailers are spotted at high volume customer locations where the customer fills the trailer and calls for a trailer exchange.
   
   
4. The clean up of illegal tire stockpiles.