L&S Tire Co. joins King County's LinkUp program. (Tires).L & S Tire Company has joined the LinkUp link·up n. 1. The act of linking or connecting: a linkup of two orbiting spacecraft. 2. Something that serves to link or join; a connection. 3. program of King County, Wash. The Link-Up link-up Noun a joining together of two systems or groups link-up n (gen) → unión f (= meeting); encuentro, reunión f team will assist L & S Tire in researching technology grant opportunities, updating the company's business plan and providing market research assistance. LinkUp will help L & S Tire evaluate the feasibility of entering two new, higher-value markets: the manufacturing of smaller tire chips for civil engineering applications and tire-derived fuel and the production of crumb rubber Crumb rubber is generally manufactured from automotive and truck scrap tires. During the manufacturing process steel and fluff is removed leaving tire rubber with a granular consistency. for use in recycled rubber products. L & S Tire, headquartered in Spokane with a facility in Lakewood, Wash., collects scrap tires from waste transfer stations, landfills, tire retailers and wrecking yards A wrecking yard, auto salvage yard or breakers yard, (sometimes also known as a junkyard), is the location of an auto dismantling business where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles (most commonly automobiles, but junkyards for motorcycles, bicycles, small . Launched in 1999, the company is Washington's largest scrap tire recycler and one of the largest in the Northwest. Last year, L & S collected 1.5 million scrap tires in Washington, Idaho and parts of Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. . The King County Solid Waste Division launched LinkUp two years ago to encourage businesses and manufactures to incorporate more recycled materials into their products. For more information on LinkUp, contact Erv Sandlin at (206) 296-0233, or visit http://dnr.metrokc.gov/linkup. |
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