Rubber granulate made from end-of-life car tyres may in future lend itself to applications such as wastewater treatment, say researchers. A Finnish team has demonstrated that the granulate processed from used car tyres is capable of acting as biofilter material…
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Conti sources rubber from dandelion plants – earns nomination at GreenTec awards
Continental Tyres is among the nominees at the prestigious GreenTec Awards 2014. The tyre major’s joint endeavour, “Rubin”, with Fraunhofer Institute has enabled this nomination. The project focuses on industrialising rubber derived from dandelions. Continental Aims to Achieve the ‘Seemingly’…
Falken employs innovative Japanese tech to build its latest Ecorun PCR tyre
Tyre engineers at Falken seem to have achieved a seemingly impossible feat. They have employed Japanese Earth Simulator supercomputer and high energy synchrotron radiation to develop their latest Ecorun PCR tyre. Sumitomo’s Sincera SN832 Ecorun is the brand’s first product…
Vietnam, China pip India to 5th place in natural rubber production
Giving a shock treatment to the Rubber Board and the policy makers, recent data released by Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) shows that India has slipped down to the fifth spot in production, below Vietnam and China in…
Now, colour changing tyre caps that tell you when tyre pressure is low
A tyre company has developed a new tyre cap that changes colour when the pressure gets too low. The tyre has a spring-loaded mechanism tucked inside of a sealed housing, a ring around the core of the cap changes from…
Pirelli announces tyre choice for first four Grands Prix
At the end of the third and final pre-season test, held in Bahrain, Pirelli has announced the compounds that will be used for the first four races this year: Australia P ZERO WHITE MEDIUM and P ZERO YELLOW SOFT Malaysia…
Apollo Tyres’ Neeraj Kanwar goes back to the drawing board
Neeraj Kanwar had a Plan B before his company Apollo Tyres Ltd signed on to buy Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. last year; it’s what he’s turned to now after what could have been the Indian auto sector’s largest ever…
National rubber budwood garden opens in North Cotabato
The provincial government of North Cotabato and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) yesterday inaugurated the country’s first National Rubber Budwood Garden inside the provincial capitol compound in Barangay Amas, this city. A budwood garden is a nursery…
Canadian grad invents world’s thinnest condom
A Canadian engineering grad has invented the world’s thinnest latex condom, 0.036 millimetres thin. Guinness World Records awarded the honour to Victor Chan and his Aoni condom, which beat Japan’s Okamoto, the previous record-holder at 0.038 millimetres. The endeavour was…
Lanxess and Hankook Tire form partnership for synthetic rubber
Lanxess and Korean Hankook Tire have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-develop synthetic rubber technologies for high-performance tyres. Under the agreement, the two companies will jointly study the development of new high-performance synthetic rubber grades and applications that…