Singer Equities has acquired Texas Rubber Supply headquartered in Dallas, TX. Texas Rubber Supply was founded by Emery Johnson in 1952 and has enjoyed a rich heritage as a premier industrial rubber distributor in the region under the leadership of…
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Tyre Sector: Setting in motion the wheels of change
Once liabilities and eye sore on landfills, end-of-life tyres have now become assets ...
Tyres: Space’s the limit for rubber tyres
Innovative rubber tyres are entering the era of space missions: as a catalyst ...
Medical: Flexible artificial muscles from liquid crystal elastomers
In Canada, an international team led by researchers at the University of Waterloo ...
Tyres: Tyre makers take the wheel to turn the sustainability corner
From landfill to factory, the tyre sector is expanding the circular use of ...
LSR: Silcotech and Momtech partner for baby bottle
Anyone who has ever fed a baby can tell you it’s not necessarily ...
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…
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…