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• Re-Tread Products, Inc. (RTP) has patented a product & method of manufacturing building materials from waste tires, called the Tire Log™.

• RTP’s process offers an alternative to the grinding, burying or burning of waste tires.

The Technology

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Competitive Advantage: Technology IP

The Tire Log™ Solution• Our patented product is a tightly-wound helix

of tire treads secured with evenly spaced hollow rivets, allowing for easy structure assembly

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Our Unique Patented System:

Rebar

Tire Log™

Rivets

The Tire Log™ rivet design allows for easy stacking and modular use.

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• The net result is a building material with unique benefits, combining the desirable characteristics of tire materials with the structural integrity provided by RTP’s unique design.

Technology to Market

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A brief history of tire recycling

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The USA generates over 300 million new waste tires per year. That’s approximately one new waste tire per year for every man, woman, & child in the USA.

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Current tire “recycling“; The GRIND, BURY & BURN system:Out of the 300 million new waste tires generated 228 million were ground up in one form or another

• 49 million ground for" crumb rubber” to produce various re-manufactured products

• 46 million tires were buried as fill for various civil engineering projects

• 133 million tires were burned as Tire Derived Fuel (TDF)

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YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

In March of 2007 Re-Tread Products Inc. was issued a US Patent on a environmentally friendly building material the “TIRE LOG™”.

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Re-Tread Products Mission

Re-Tread Products Inc. mission is in compliance with New York’s waste tire management priorities as stated in the New York Waste Tire Management and Recycling Act of 2003:

“To upcycle waste tires into value-added products; and to

beneficially use waste tires in an environmentally acceptable manner”

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A look inside the TIRE LOG manufacturing process. The beauty of RTP method of recycling tires is it is: SIMPLE, EFFICIENT and EFFECTIVE.

This photo is from The Buffalo News, July 5, 2006. It shows the TIRE LOGS™ being made (by UB engineering students), by helically winding tire treads around an inner core of tread material. This method of winding the tire strips into a variety of building products represents a formidable improvement in the recycling of waste tires.

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Conventional tire recycling requires the storage and transportation of whole tires that are “webbed” together for maximum load capacity.

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Removing sidewalls and making tire strips:

There is no need for the powerful machines used to grind tires, in that when the sidewall is cut off only the rubber portion of the tire is cut through and there is only a single cross cut through the tread portion that contains the steel which makes tires so hard to grind up.

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Tires are reduced to a fraction of their original bulk.

The strips and sidewalls are stacked on to pallets that can be easily stored and transported. The tire strips are then used in the winding process that turns them in to TIRE LOGS™!

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Helically Winding the TIRE LOG.

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TIRE LOG™ Retaining Wall Demonstration

Geogrid “ties" wall into soil.

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Installing siding & wood decking to wall

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TIRE LOG™ Retaining Wall Demonstration

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Highway noise, visual & safety barriers

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For use in place of sandbags for security/barricades & flood

control 17 sandbags = 8’ Tire

Log™

Rapidly deployed with minimum time and labor cost compared to the traditional sandbag and just as rapidly recovered for future use.

Tire Logs™ can be stacked & stored for a wide assortment of recurring needs.

RAPID FLOOD WALL DEPLOYMENT

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RAPID FLOOD WALL DEPLOYMENT

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Erosion control

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For use in place of sandbags

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Hollow rivets provide a conduit through the TIRE LOG™

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Levee design concepts Due to its “bend but does not break” characteristic, the Tire Log™ may

be well suited for building applications that are prone to severe and unusual stresses/shock forces.

Check Dams

The Tire Log™ is being used as a Check Dam which is a vertical barrier across a ditch or swale to slow storm waters down and decrease erosion (a water speed bump) .

29Check Dams disperse the waters destructive energy as it flows down hill.

Check Dams

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Check Dams also decrease sedimentation reaching the streams and lakes that the ditches empty in to.

Check Dams

Ditch Erosion DemonstrationFelton Hill Rd., Ashford, NY

Check Dams

2009 Flood Ashford, NY

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The Tire Log™ is ideally suited for this application in that it is extremely durable yet is flexible enough to conform to the contour of the ditch.

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Check Dams

Steel rebar is pushed through grommets in the Tire Log™ to secure it in place.

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Check Dams

Check Dams

¾” rebar stakes are easily pressed in the ground with the backhoe bucket.

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Check Dams The ability to secure the

Check Dam in place greatly reduces ditch maintenance cost when compared to using just stones that can get displaced during heavy storms.

The Tire Logs™ and stakes can easily be removed for ditch maintenance and reused for other projects.

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Environmental Sustainability The control of accelerated erosion and its by-product,

sedimentation, is critical to the vitality of land and water resources.

The Tire Log™: Minimizes physical degradation of the environment . Made from upcylcled tires eliminating the use of extracted

natural resources. Minimizes the amount of newly manufactured substances. Easy to install, with little or no maintenance. Simple to remove without significant disturbed soil

restoration. Reusable. Significant cost saving.

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TIRE LOG™ Mat

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Tire Log™ mats can be used for a wide variety of applications: Heavy equipment platforms, logging roads,

temporary stream bank protection, boat ramps, etc…

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Seawalls

The Onoville Marina is leased to Cattaraugus County by the Corps of Engineers and is committed to creating sustainable design and operations within the park.

Park personal along with RTP consultants built a demonstration seawall along the marinas shoreline that has been previously subject to wave erosion.

ONOVILLE MARINA SEAWALL

The first course of logs was staked down using steel rebar stakes that were pushed into the ground through grommets in the Tire Log™ with the bucket of the backhoe to secure logs in place.

ONOVILLE MARINA SEAWALL The Tire Log’s™ flexibility and energy

absorbing characteristics make it ideal for seawalls, and other similar shoreline applications that are subject to undermining by moving water, wave action and ice damage.

These extreme environmental conditions can cause other conventional building materials to crack and buckle accelerating their decomposition and losing their structural integrity.

ONOVILLE MARINA SEAWALL

After wall is completed fill is put back in place and wood framing is attached to top of the wall for preparation of pouring concrete slab.

Concrete slab is poured over the fill and the top of seawall.

ONOVILLE MARINA SEAWALL

SEAWALLS The Tire Log™ is an environmentally

friendly building material that is able to replace, and last much longer than chemically treated wood eliminating the use of toxic chemicals that may leach into the aquatic environment.

The Tire Log™ is also an economic alternative to other conventional building materials such a concrete that require coffer dams to be erected before the pouring of the concrete in open waters.

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SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONS TIRE LOG™ Engineering ReportGlynn Geotechnical Engineering

Lockport, New York

“The inherent characteristics of this unique building material make it capable of withstanding deformations that would crack or break conventional building materials. Furthermore, the testing of individual units demonstrates that after test loads are released the product is capable of returning to its original shape. Due to this “bend but does not break” characteristic of the Tire Log™ it may be well suited for building applications that are prone to severe and unusual stresses/shock forces such as explosions, earthquakes, wave action, water and ice pressures, flying debris and vehicle impacts.” - Mark Glynn, P.E.

RTP has tested the Tire Log™ for it’s ability to withstand explosions and gunfire that are commonly encountered by our military and police forces.

MILITARY and POLICE Applications for the Tire Log™

Ten 1¼” x 8” sticks(~5lbs) of 75% nitroglycerin dynamite were placed in a shaped charge to make an improvised explosive device (IED), also known as a roadside bomb.

Tire Log™ Explosives Demonstration

The IED was then placed on top of four 8’ long Tire Logs™ that were lag bolted together with ½” x 12” long lag bolts approximately 20” apart.

Typical cross section of Tire Log 8” H. x 14” W.

Tire Log™ Explosives Demonstration

Before detonation :Note that the charge is placed between logs.

After detonation.

Tire Log™ Firearms Backstop Demonstration

The Cattaraugus County Sheriffs’ Department has been using a Tire Log™ backstop to demonstrate the ability of the Tire Log™ to safely capture thousands of rounds of rifle, shotgun and pistol fire at its Firearms Training Range in Cattaraugus County, New York

According to the EPA there are approximately 9,000 outdoor small arms shooting ranges in the United States, excluding those located on military sites. Millions of pounds of lead are discharged annually at these ranges.

Tire Log™ Firearms Backstop Demonstration

Tire Log™ Firearms Backstop Demonstration In the past, the common practice at ranges

was to allow the spent ammunition to accumulate on site. Many range operators now recognize the risk posed to humans and the environment by the lead in spent ammunition and have implemented programs to manage and recycle lead shot and bullets.

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The TIRE LOG™ is being considered for various construction applications in areas that are prone to earthquake activity due to its “bend but won’t break” quality.

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