2025 - 09 - 03
Innovative Tire Recycling: Maximizing Efficiency with Diamond Wire Saw Technology
An endless diamond wire saw is the most effective tool for cutting up tires because it cuts the rubber, the steel belts and the textile cord in one cold pass — no melting, no heat-damaged rubber, no blades to resharpen. A loop cuts at 30–60 m/s with a kerf of only 0.35–0.5 mm, and it shears the steel cleanly instead of tearing it, so all three fractions of the tire stay separable and saleable rather than ending up as mixed shredder fluff. Tires and rubber composites are normally cut with 1.0–3.5 mm endless diamond wire on a horizontal wire saw, running dry at a standard 35 m/s. Cutting a tire means cutting three materials at once — flexible rubber, high-strength steel belts and textile cord — and that is exactly why most methods struggle. Shredder blades dull within hours, waterjet leaves a contaminated slurry, and thermal cutting burns the very rubber it is supposed to recycle. The diamond wire saw cuts all three cold, at 30–60 m/s, with a kerf of only 0.35–0.5 mm and no heat-affected zone. This guide answers how do you cut tires at industrial scale, why diamond wire is the best tool for cutting up tires,...
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