Dynasol Group, a joint venture between KUO and Repsol, says that it has decided to increase its production capacity in Santander, Spain, by installing a brand-new line to produce styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR). The investment will represent an increase of production…
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Bridgestone partners with LanzaTech to pursue tyre recycling
Bridgestone Americas is in an exclusive partnership with Carbon Capture and Transformation (CCT) company, LanzaTech NZ, Inc. to address end-of-life tyre waste. The two companies will co-develop the first dedicated end-of-life tyre recycling process leveraging LanzaTech’s proprietary CCT technology, creating…
Apollo Tyres opens digital innovation hub in UK
Indian tyre maker Apollo Tyres has launched its Digital Innovation Hub in London. As part of the company’s digital strategy to implement Industry 4.0, the Innovation Hub will use Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies to solve complex manufacturing problems,…
Toyoda Gosei to enlarge auto plant
Toyoda Gosei Co will enlarge its Seto plant, located near its main customer in Japan, to strengthen the company’s competitiveness through more efficient manufacturing in interior and exterior products. The automobile industry today is moving toward concurrent manufacturing of different…
Bridgestone India expands chain of concept stores
Tyre maker Bridgestone India, part of the Bridgestone group, has launched six walk-through educative tyre stores that help customer make an informed choice on tyre purchase and related services. With this launch, Bridgestone says it has moved a step forward on its aim to digitise its dealership…
Sumitomo Rubber sheds light on mechanisms behind NR biosynthesis
Sumitomo Rubber Industries says that through ongoing joint research with Professor Yuzuru Tozawa of Saitama University, Associate Professor Seiji Takahashi of Tohoku University and Associate Professor Satoshi Yamashita of Kanazawa University, it has invented a new technique for evaluating enzymes…
Synthos/TRS see sharp rise in demand for recycled rubber
Polish rubber chemical maker Synthos and Swiss company Tyre Recycling Solutions (TRS) have seen a sharp increase in interest in TyreXol recycled rubber. The reasons for this increase are twofold and can be linked to reduced availability of synthetic rubber…
Goodyear to develop dandelion rubber in US
Tyre firm Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has entered into a multi-year, multi-million-dollar program supported by the US Department of Defense (DoD), the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and BioMADE to work with Ohio-based Farmed Materials to develop a domestic source…
Teijin Frontier introduces polyester staple nanofibre for rubber automotive tyres, hoses and belts
Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., the Teijin Group’s fibres and products converting company, has developed an eco-friendly staple polyester nanofibre with performance to reinforce rubber uses in products including automotive tyres, hoses and belts. Staple fibres—textile fibres of discrete length—are used to…