Dutch machinery firm VMI is focusing on smart solutions that optimise tyre building and address the challenges the industry is facing, with new advanced vision systems, self-learning AI algorithms and self-adjusting processes contributing to improved flexibility, higher accuracy and consistency. Thus,…
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Sumitomo Rubber invests in US AI analytics firm Viaduct
Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI) says that it has invested in US-based start-up Viaduct Inc, an AI-powered connected vehicle analytics company, to achieve total fleet management solutions. With a joint proof-of-concept with Viaduct having already started, it has further strengthened its…
Goodyear cooperates with ZF, TDK for tyre intelligence; with TNO on anti-locking braking
Tyre maker Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has announced various collaborations for tyre intelligence technologies including a vehicle motion control software with vehicle systems and industrial technology supplier ZF and with TDK Corporation, it is working on launching a tyre…
CTEK partners with Bridgestone Mobility Solutions on EV services platform
Electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions supplier CTEK has announced its partnership with Bridgestone Mobility Solutions, the business of Bridgestone focused on data-driven mobility solutions. This collaboration marks the launch of what is said to be a cutting-edge EV services platform…
Hyundai Motor and Kia develop snow-chain tyre technology
Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation have unveiled a new snow chain-integrated tyre technology to make it easier to stay safe in winter driving conditions. Snow chain-integrated tyre technology uses shape memory alloy modules that are located inside the wheel…
Continental/Synopsys provide vehicle digital twin capabilities for software development
German tech firm Continental has announced a collaboration with Synopsys to accelerate the development and validation of software features and applications for the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV). This new collaboration integrates Synopsys’ virtual prototyping solutions for virtual Electronic Control Units (vECU)…
Toyo Tires ties up with Serbian uni for research on sustainable raw materials
Toyo Tire Holdings of Europe GmbH, the sales subsidiary of Toyo Tire Corporation in Europe, have concluded an agreement on industry-university partnership for R&D of sustainable raw materials with the University of Novi Sad in Serbia recently. Having a production…
Sumitomo Rubber working on “tyre internal power generation technology”
Japan’s Sumitomo Rubber Industries, in collaboration with Professor Hiroshi Tani of Kansai University, is developing a technology that can generate electric power from the rotation of a tyre by attaching a power generating device (energy harvester) inside a tyre to…
Huntsman starts building of carbon nanotube pilot plant in US
Huntsman Corporation has announced construction has commenced on the 30-tonne Miralon carbon nanotube materials plant, originally announced in 2021. The new plant, which converts methane gas to carbon nanotubes and clean-burning hydrogen, will be one of the largest of its…
Kobe Steel exits tyre testing machine business
Machinery maker Kobe Steel has announced that it has decided to withdraw from the tyre testing machine business and transferred the business to Nagahama Seisakusho Ltd recently. The Japanese firm has been engaged in the tyre testing machine business over…