The new system means that each of the four slick tyre compounds – Extra-soft, Soft, Medium and Hard – will have its own particular colour for the whole race season. From the first race of the 2014 season, Bridgestone will…
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Dunlop presents StreetResponse2 for small passenger cars
Dunlop recently launched its newest, innovative passenger car tyre – the StreetResponse2 for small-sized cars on European roads. This product is available in sizes ranging from 13”to 15” and fits four of UK’s five best selling automobiles of 2013. The…
Bridgestone sets higher benchmark in winter tyre safety with Blizzack LM001
Bridgestone has set higher standards in winter safety with the launch of its second tyre launch in the category in the last two years. Its Blizzack LM001 has arrived to prove its enhanced performance and longer life span. The Launch…
Dunlop reveals intelligent tyre concept at Geneva
Tyre company Goodyear Dunlop has revealed a new conceptual tyre that can communicate with a car’s onboard computer at the Geneva motor show today. The new rubber is embedded with a battery-less microchip attached to the inside of the tyre.…
Bridgestone comes out with severe-duty wide-base tire
Bridgestone has introduced a new rib-type all-position tyre aimed at severe-service and on/off-highway applications. The M854 wide-base radial tyre is ideal for construction, refuse, dump, mixer, bulk and logging applications, the company says. “Construction, logging and refuse fleets travel on…
Car tyres may purify wastewater in future
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…
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…
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…
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…