Jordan's end-of-life tires have always had value. CIRKUL is the infrastructure that recovers it — producing rubber granules, rubber powder, and recovered steel for construction, industrial, and export markets.
CIRKUL is a mechanical tire recycling facility within the Aqaba Special Economic Zone — built to convert that feedstock into certified industrial outputs at consistent quality. Each tonne processed is a tonne recovered — returned to the industrial loop at full material value rather than lost to landfill or incineration.
Jordan's end-of-life tire stream grows with every vehicle on the road. The rubber and steel those tires contain are established industrial materials — in active demand across manufacturing and infrastructure. But demand today comes with a standard: consistent gradation, verified quality, environmental provenance. Sustainability frameworks, green procurement requirements, and circular economy mandates are reshaping what qualifies as an acceptable industrial input. Meeting that standard requires purpose-built infrastructure.
The regional market for recycled rubber inputs is expanding. GAFTA trade access connects 22 Arab markets. ASEZA's industrial framework provides the regulatory and fiscal conditions that serious infrastructure requires. UNDP and EU circular economy programmes are already active in the same zone. The policy environment, the trade infrastructure, and the institutional momentum are pointing in the same direction — toward a circular industrial economy in this region. This is what CIRKUL is built for.
Every tire processed by CIRKUL yields three clean, sellable material streams — returned to construction, industrial, and export markets with zero residue.
The primary output. Sized crumb rubber used across sports, construction, and safety applications. Supplied to domestic buyers and exported across GAFTA markets.
Fine-milled rubber powder for use as an industrial modifier and in bonded surface products. Higher value-per-tonne relative to granules.
Steel wire embedded in tire carcasses is mechanically separated and recovered as a clean output stream. No heat, no chemicals. Pure mechanical extraction from start to finish.
End-of-life tires that are not recycled are incinerated or landfilled — both with measurable GHG consequences. Mechanical recycling avoids those emissions entirely. Each tonne CIRKUL processes represents a quantifiable emissions avoidance event — the kind that can be monitored, reported, and verified against international standards including the GHG Protocol and ISO 14064.
The facility is designed to run on solar — no combustion, no grid dependency. Two things happen at once: the emissions that would come from incineration are avoided, and the processing itself generates none. Every tonne is clean twice over — in what it prevents, and in how it is made.
Al-Quwayrah Industrial Estate, Aqaba. Inside ASEZA — Jordan's only special economic zone with a deep-water port on the Red Sea. Industrial land, GAFTA trade access to 22 Arab markets, and one of the highest solar irradiance levels in the region.
CIRKUL is infrastructure for the circular industrial economy. We are building with buyers, suppliers, institutional partners, and programmes moving in the same direction. We welcome the conversation.
This website runs carbon-neutral.
Hosted on Swiss-certified renewable infrastructure with a measured footprint of 0.052 kg CO₂ per year. CIRKUL is designed to run on solar, with every tonne processed tracked, reported, and verified. Every loop closes — from the pixels on this screen to every tonne we process.
Beyond the
industrial loop.
The people already collecting tires across Jordan — the workshops, the scrap dealers, the informal networks — have been doing this work without formal infrastructure to connect to. As CIRKUL becomes operational, we intend to be that connection — giving that supply chain formal value and a recognised place in the industrial loop.
Aqaba is where we are building. The Gulf of Aqaba is already being protected by institutions and communities that have been doing that work for years — among them the Royal Marine Conservation Society of Jordan and the Aqaba Marine Park. CIRKUL intends to join them.
Because the coastline we are building on is not just our location. It is our responsibility.