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 Western Rubber Products Ltd. (WRP) began in 1989 with a 5,000 square foot facility located in the Queensborough area of Greater Vancouver. In its first year of operation, WRP produced approximately one million pounds of crumb rubber. The company moved its office to nearby Annacis Island, a large, centrally located industrial park in the Fraser River, in 1992. The following year the plant also moved to Annacis Island. The new location provided easy access to freeways eastbound to the province’s interior and the rest of Canada as well as southbound to the USA.
 As other BC tire recycling companies came and went WRP grew through the 1990s and into the new millennium. The company has established a reputation for supplying high quality, clean crumb rubber on time at a fair price. WRP now operates from a 10,000 square foot plant producing between 45 and 50 million pounds per year of coarse crumb rubber.
At the WRP plant, shred supplied by Pacific Shredding passes through a series of steps to remove all rocks, metal and foreign objects before being fed into the granulators. Material remains in the granulator until it is small enough to pass through screens in the bottom of the machine. The screens are changed depending upon the desired size of output.
Finished product, clean crumb rubber that is free of metal and fibre, is conveyed into a bagging hopper and packaged according to the needs of the customer. Some of this crumb rubber is sold to third party customers though much of it is supplied to Delta Fine Grind for further processing.
Beginning in 1992 WRP operated under the BC provincial government’s FIRST Program. As of January 1, 2007 stewardship of scrap tires in BC was transferred to Tire Stewardship BC, a non-profit industry stewardship board. The company now operates under the TSBC program. | 
