The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Goodyear) will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) US National Laboratory in late July 2019 with the SpaceX CRS-18 to evaluate and improve their tyres. Goodyear will test tyre components, particularly the formation…
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Toyo to expand US tyre production facility
Japan’s Toyo Tire (Toyo) is to again expand its 13-year-old North American tyre plant in rural Bartow County, Georgia. The company will invest some US$65 million for the project, which will involve installing new manufacturing equipment to boost the annual…
Arlanxeo to set up R&D centre in Saudi Arabia; collaborates with Dhahran Techno Valley
Synthetic rubber materials firm Arlanxeo’s next phase of its growth plans will be to expand its R&D efforts into Saudi Arabia, by setting up a technical R&D centre focused on elastomers in Dhahran Techno Valley Company (DTVC), Saudi Arabia. Arlanxeo,…
China’s Maxtrek Tyres breaks ground on Malaysian plant
Kuantan, on the eastern coast of Malaysia, will be home to Maxtrek Tyre’s first car/truck tyre plant outside of China – the plant will be built in the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park and is slated to produce some 6 million…
Continental’s radial tyres driving China’s SlideWheel
Continental’s ContiRV20 industrial pneumatic tyres are moving the world’s first and only rotating water slide at the Chimelong Water Park in Guangzhou, China. The 140m-long adventure SlideWheel lends pendulum rotations over a 250m stretch and requires tyres at a diameter…
India’s Govt considers modified tyres to reduce road accidents
The Indian government is mulling the use of silicon and rubber in the manufacture of tyres to improve their durability as well as using nitrogen instead of normal air, as per international standards. Air is replaced with nitrogen to reduce…
Rubber City to be developed by Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand – world-leading producers of natural rubber – will collaborate to develop a Rubber City within the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) region. The foursites: Kedah in Malaysia, Songkhla in Thailand, and Tanjung Api-Api and Sei Mangkei Special…
Trinseo opens new compounding plant in the Netherlands
Manufacturer of plastics, latexes and synthetic rubber Trinseo has opened a new compounding factory at its Hoek site in Terneuzen, the Netherlands. With this development, the company says it is providing an extra boost to the developments in the field…
Enviro still in talks for tyre recycling plants in the US and Denmark
Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) is continuing its negotiations with an American, a Canadian and a Danish company to establish local plants for tyre recycling based on Enviro’s technology. The previously communicated deadline for when the agreement was to be completed…
K2019: Low-prepolymer PUs an alternative to rubber for star wheels
Speciality chemicals business Lanxess’s Urethane Systems business unit has developed an alternative to synthetic rubber for producing star wheels for material separation plants and material transport. It is based on polyurethane (PU) elastomers produced from Adiprene Low Free (LF) prepolymers.…