Energy prices have risen, so it's now more advantageous to go for this type a solution. We've seen a real difference in terms of interest since the start of the project - before the periods of tension on the markets when suddenly the scarcity of certain energy sources meant that the price of energy rose. So, we realised that in the end we needed to think seriously about these topics... heat recovery to produce energy made sense, especially when energy prices are tight.

We were never able to really recycle tires at the end of their life into raw materials that we could integrate in the tire and keep the same performance. So, it was always possible to recycle into tire products, but we lost performances that are important for our customers. And so, the focus will be clearly on creating materials that we can recycle into tire products and at the same time keep the performance of the tire.

LIST AI sandbox is a tool where you can test the mainstream large language models (like ChatGPT) against a number of benchmarks that are publicly available, that have been created by the open-source community. And they would assign a score to the model based on the answers that they give to a standard set of questions and based on the bias they can detect in these answers to see if a model is very biased or if it’s not biased at all.