This week, it looks as if two more California crumb rubber processors are coming on board in the near future:

1) Bulldog Rubber & Recycling of Vista, CA, which received a Minor Waste Tire Facility permit last summer and a $2 million loan under the Tire Equipment Loan Program, will be accepting passenger, light truck and large truck tires on April 1.

The company, which has invested $4.6 million into tire processing equipment (including the $2 million loan), plans to sell its product to the asphalt rubber and mulch markets.

Bulldog's president is David Willis.  He can be reached at 760-734-6956.  The company's website is www.bulldogrubber.net

2) Tri-C Manufacturing, Inc. of West Sacramento, recently received its Major Waste Tire Facility permit for storage of up to 10,000 PTEs.  It plans to start operating in the next week or two.  Tri-C, which also received a loan under the Tire Equipment Loan Program (for $635,000), will operate an ambient grind system that produces crumb rubber for asphalt rubber.  It will also plans to make rubber mulch.

Mike Hunsaker, Operations Manager for Tri-C, said that the company will have a press release announcing their Grand Opening in early April.  He can be reached at 916-371-8090.  Tri-C also manufactures tire shredding equipment, and has a website at http://www.tri-cshredders.com

·       Next week, CalRecycle, which administers the state's $40 million annual Tire Program, will announce recommendations for grants under the Local Government Amnesty Event Grant Program and the Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup Grant Program.  California Tire Report will provide a list of grantees.

Although 44 applications qualified for grants, several of the Amnesty Event grants will be relegated to a "B" list because of the popularity of the program.  Funding "B" list jurisdictions will be decided at the annual Waste Tire Program Reallocation meeting, scheduled for 10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 14.  That meeting, open to the public, is held every year to shift unspent money from tire programs to other tire programs that have excess demand and unfunded, but qualified, applicants.