Gilead Dynamics and ATS Industrial Automation Partner to Scale Mobile Tire Recycling with Advanced Industrial Automation
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ATS contributes its digital expertise, including UReality CORE and VR training platforms, enabling performance optimization, remote diagnostics, and consistent operations across multiple regions. In my experience, embedding digital training and monitoring capabilities at this stage significantly accelerates adoption, reduces operator error, and ensures reliability at scale.
Brief Description
Gilead Dynamics partners with ATS Industrial Automation to scale its mobile Carbon Black Extractor, transforming tire waste into valuable materials while leveraging advanced automation, digital tools, and industrial-scale support for global deployment.
Gilead Dynamics Teams Up with ATS for Industrial-Scale Tire Recycling
Gilead Dynamics, a cleantech startup advancing circular economy solutions, has announced a strategic collaboration with ATS Industrial Automation. This partnership marks the public debut of Gilead’s flagship Carbon Black Extractor (CBX) and accelerates its path to commercialization. The alliance combines Gilead’s innovative recycling technology with ATS’s proven expertise in advanced industrial automation.
Transforming Tire Waste into High-Value Materials
The CBX platform converts end-of-life tire shreds into three valuable byproducts: recycled carbon black, oil, and syngas. This addresses one of the most persistent challenges in global waste management. From my perspective as an industrial automation engineer, the real breakthrough lies in delivering not just a prototype but a production-ready system capable of consistent, repeatable outputs—a crucial factor often overlooked in cleantech deployments.
ATS Brings Manufacturing and Automation Expertise
Under the agreement, ATS will optimize the CBX for manufacturability and scale, providing end-to-end support from design to fabrication, delivery, and lifecycle service. By embedding its engineers with Gilead’s team, ATS ensures that manufacturability, serviceability, and uptime are built into the system from the start. This integrated approach dramatically reduces operational risk for customers—a lesson the industry has learned time and again with complex industrial platforms.
Mobile and Modular Design for Global Deployment
The CBX is designed as a modular, mobile system deployable on two standard 53-foot flatbed trailers. Leveraging advanced pyrolysis and microwave technology, it aims to extract materials from tire scraps with up to 93% carbon black purity—matching virgin material standards. The modular mobility of CBX is particularly compelling; it allows rapid deployment to regions with high tire waste volumes, offering a scalable solution for circular manufacturing without large fixed facilities.
Digital Tools and Edge Connectivity for Operational Excellence
ATS contributes its digital expertise, including UReality CORE and VR training platforms, enabling performance optimization, remote diagnostics, and consistent operations across multiple regions. In my experience, embedding digital training and monitoring capabilities at this stage significantly accelerates adoption, reduces operator error, and ensures reliability at scale.
Commitment to Enablement and Lifecycle Support
A defining feature of this partnership is its focus on enablement. ATS will lead customer onboarding, training, and long-term post-sale support, providing 24/7 operational capabilities. This ensures that clients receive not just a machine but a fully supported industrial platform—a critical differentiator in industrial automation where long-term uptime defines ROI.
Driving Scalable, Real-World Impact
The collaboration between Gilead Dynamics and ATS is a strong example of how industrial automation expertise can accelerate cleantech solutions. By combining modular, high-performance engineering with digital tools and embedded support, the CBX platform is positioned to transform tire recycling into a scalable, sustainable industrial process. From my perspective, this model demonstrates the next frontier of industrial cleantech: scalable, data-driven, and fully integrated solutions ready for global deployment.
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