G3C Technologies Timeline

February 2015: G3C Technologies Corporation (G3CT) was incorporated as a New Jersey C Corporation - at the time the corporation was registered with the name Long Arc Technologies Corporation (LAT).

 

July 2015: Built G3CT’s core R&D team in Georgia and set Waste to Wealth (W2W) as company’s general direction with focus on scrap tire conversion to recovered Carbon Black (rCB). 

 

November 2015: The Bench Experimental Reactor for rCB product development purpose was built and commissioned in G3CT's Tbilisi Lab.

 

May 2016:   By optimizing the bench reactor, operation the G3CT R&D team succeeded in producing high structure and very high surface area specialty rCB suitable for semi-conductive applications.

 

August 2016: A Horizontal G3C Reactor Pilot System designed for producing high surface area rCB was built and commissioned in G3CT's Tbilisi Lab.

 

May 2017: G3CT (at the time Long arch Technologies) was awarded a US Patent (US 9,663,662) "A System and Method for Tire Conversion into Carbon Black, Liquid and Gaseous Products" by US PTO.

 

May 2017: G3CT registered a US Trademark  by US PTO - GREEN3 CONVERSION®, representing triple GREEN approach (no hazardous pollution/lower carbon footprint; no fossil sources feedstock; no energy from fossil sources).

 

October 2017: The company name was changed to G3C Technologies Corporation (G3CT), which aligns well with the US registered trademark GREEN3 CONVERSION (G3C); the new name was registered with the state of New Jersey.

 

January 2018: Started G3C technology commercialization project in Georgia.

  

February 2019: G3CT was awarded a Canadian Patent (3,015,887) "A System and Method for Tire Conversion into Carbon Black, Liquid and Gaseous Products" by Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO).

 

 

March 2019: G3CT fully commissioned a Pilot Vertical G3C Reactor, capable of producing high grade rCB in its Tbilisi Lab.

 

 

March 2019: The primary Particle Size Distributions (PSD) for both traditional pyrolysis-derived and G3C rCB, sourced from identical truck tires, were measured using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) with a Phillips system interfaced with the Gatan Dual Vision imaging system at an independent certified lab (www.ardl.com). Results indicated that G3C rCB exhibits smaller primary particle sizes, demonstrating that the G3C method effectively reduces particle size, thereby ‘upgrading’ lower-grade carbon black to a higher grade. This level of upgrading is unattainable with existing carbon black extraction methods, such as pyrolysis.

 

 

May 2019: G3CT has revealed the capabilities of its state-of-the-art G3C technology at the first Recovered Carbon Black Congress in Berlin. 

 

 

August 2023: G3C rCB was tested in rubber compounding at an independent certified lab (www.ardl.com). The tests demonstrated tensile properties comparable to those of N5XX vCB grade, modulus properties on par with both N5XX and N3XX reinforcing vCB grades, and hardness properties that exceeded those of the N5XX and N3XX reinforcing vCB grades.

 

 

April 2020: G3CT was awarded a Indian Patent (335,664) "System and Method for Tire Conversion into Carbon Black, Liquid and Gaseous Products" by The Indian Patent Office.

 

 

October 2020: Post-processing (magnetic separation, milling/classifying and pelletizing) Capability was implemented at G3CT R&D lab in Tbilisi, Georgia.

 

 

April-August 2021: Multiple samples of G3C rCB were tested in rubber compounding experiments conducted by an independent lab (www.ace-laboratories.com). The compounding and testing confirmed that G3C rCB can effectively replace N339 and N550 vCB in high-performance rubber applications.

 

 

November 2022: G3CT has completed a multi-year R&D marketing initiative, resulting in a business collaboration with a major vCB consumer interested in replacing a significant portion of its reinforcing vCB with reinforcing rCB. 

 

 

March-August 2023: G3C rCB samples were tested in tire formulations at an independent certified lab (www.ardl.com). The results demonstrated that G3C rCB can replace up to 100% of vCB in tire inner liners and body plies, and up to 50% in tire tread applications.

 

 

May-September 2023: G3CT has selected Schwing Technologies (https://www.schwing-technologies.com/en/) as a designer and manufacturer of the reactor equipment implementing G3CT’s patented method.