A Warren business is firmly in the spotlight of international recognition for innovation, showing yet again the smart, hard-working and success ethos found in our region.
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Green Distillation Technologies Corporation (GDT) operates a plant in Warren that recycles old car and truck tyres into carbon, oil and steel which can be sold.
The “green technology” was developed by Warren resident Denis Randall.
GDT has been commercialising it and has become Australia’s first ever finalist in the Edison Awards, the world’s top innovation awards.
Getting rid of old tyres is regarded as one of the world’s biggest environmental problems – and Warren may have developed a solution.
The recycling process turns out oil that can be used for heating or in stationary diesel engines, carbon that could replace some product from fossil fuels and steel which tyre makers can re-use.
And it could remove three per cent of Australia’s mountains of old tyres annually.
At full production the Warren plant could process 19,000 tonnes of tyres a year.
The whole project is clever thinking, which has brought a new, emissions-free business and local jobs to the region and Australia.
Residents of Warren and the rest of the region will be hoping it will win an award at the ceremony in New York on April 23. But prize or not, Mr Randall, the company and its workers deserve praise for their ideas, determination and achievements.
