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…
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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…
Continental in Project Tree project for UK tyre market
German tyre maker Continental is the latest in a line of tyre makers like Pirelli undertaking sustainability and is undertaking a pilot project in the UK by testing and implementing a range of solutions to enhance the production and trade…
Tyres: Moving closer to an air-free tyres future
In response to a rising trend for safe and environmentally friendly transportation, more tyre makers are jumping on board the airless tyre bandwagon with new prototypes set to enter commercial production in the coming years, according to Angelica Buan in…
Continental inaugurates EUR20 mn greenfield plant in India
German technology company Continental has inaugurated its greenfield plant in Pune, India, manufacturing surface solutions materials mainly for the Indian automotive and two-wheeler market. With investments totalling more than EUR20 million covering facilities and machinery, Continental will produce premium surface…
Falken/SRI internal power generation technology can detect tyre wear
In a joint project between Falken Tyre Europe’s parent company Sumitomo Rubber Industries and Professor Hiroshi Tani of Kansai University, Japan, a new sensor to measure tyre wear has been developed which will help engineers to create longer lasting tyres. This…