Returning in 2026 and co-located with the Sustainability in Tires event, Recovered Carbon Black Asia offers a premier platform for stakeholders across the rCB value chain to connect, exchange insights, and explore the challenges and opportunities shaping the industry’s future.
Building on the strong momentum of 2025—which welcomed over 200 industry professionals—the event will once again unite tire manufacturers, pyrolysis operators, material suppliers, end-users, and sustainability leaders from across the region.
Join the conversation and help drive the future of rCB in Asia.
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If you are curious about how rCB can work within your business, this is the conference to attend. - CEO, Bolder Industries
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Paul Ita runs Notch Consulting, a Massachusetts-based research company dedicated to the market research needs of the global specialty chemicals industry. Mr. Ita focuses on raw materials for the global tire and rubber industries, with a particular focus on carbon black, silica, and rubber chemicals. Through Notch, he publishes the Carbon Black World Data Book and the Carbon Black Quarterly Newsletter.
Jeff Shiue has been serving as Eco Infinic's General Manager since 2024. He was a chemical engineer and joined Eco Infinic’s parent company Sheico Group after receiving an MBA from NYU in 2010. He was Sheico’s Director of Sales and R&D for 8 years and spearheaded efforts to make wetsuits more eco-friendly. As Sheico invested more resources to enable Eco Infinic to expand, Jeff transitioned full time to the subsidiary to guide its growth.
• Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 Kumho Petrochemicals / Specialty chemicals Sales
chemical sales for Tire/Syntetic Rubber/ ABS : Japan, India, N&S Americas
*Key Accounts : Bridgestone, Yokohama, Sumitomo, Toyo, MRF, Apollo, BSTE and so on
• Feb 2017 – Dec 2020 Lanxess Korea / TSR Business Unit Head
Synthetic Rubber(Butyl,NdBR,SSBR) Sales
*Key Accounts : Korean 3 tire makers, Hwaseung, Dong-ah, Sungnam and so on
• Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 ARLANXEO/ Regional Key Account Manager- Japan & Korea
Synthetic Rubber(Butyl,NdBR,SSBR) Sales
*Key Accounts : Korean and Japanese Tire Makers
• Current LD Carbon / Chief Commercial Officer, Founder
Leads LDC’s sales, purchasing and logistics operations
Martin von Wolfersdorff, trading as "Wolfersdorff Consulting Berlin”, is an expert advisor and business partner of Smithers specialising in sustainable carbon blacks. Martin works with Smithers on carbon black consulting projects, writes Smithers reports and is the founder and business partner of the recovered Carbon Black Conference. Martin's corporate assignments were in carbon black, plastic packaging, plastic masterbatch and titanium dioxide. Martin has a Dipl. Ing. (Univ.) degree in chemical engineering from the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany.
Chen Xiaoyan has been actively exploring high-quality development related to ecological priorities and green development, leading her team to develop the internationally leading "intelligent green cracking for waste tires and carbon black deep processing equipment". She has also lead the construction of three "Industry 4.0" intelligent factories for waste tire recycling. Her work has been helping the industry to develop in a green and sustainable way.
Andy Yuan is the Business Development Director at Enrestec. Having joined Enrestec since 2010, he has demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing the industry with innovative pyrolysis technology applied on ELTs (end-of-life tires), both in Taiwan and across Asia, with a global outlook. In 2019, Andy took charge of the Eco-Infinic project in Thailand, overseeing the construction of a state-of-the-art pyrolysis plant with an impressive capacity of 100,000 tons of ELTs processed annually. Additionally, in 2021, he successfully managed the expansion of Enrestec's Taiwan plant, elevating the total processing capacity to 60,000 tons of ELTs in Taiwan.
