Optimal tyre inflation pressure and the right tyre selection mean the best possible tyre performance and the greatest possible fleet efficiency. What sounds so simple is not always easy to implement in the price-driven day-to-day business of fleets. Continental therefore…
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Towards sustainable tyres and less dependence on Asian rubber – Continental
Car tyres are round, black and made of rubber. Look closer, however, and you’ll see that the design of tyres and the interaction of the various materials that go into making them are extremely complex. But for some time now,…
Continental opens basketball court made from recycled tyres
Tyre manufacturer Continental came together with a selection of partners to officially open a new basketball court in the Linden-Süd district of Hanover, Germany, recently. But this is no ordinary court – the playing surface has been constructed using 200…
Continental opens AI lab in Berlin
Continental Automotive has opened its AI Lab in Berlin, Germany for application-independent development work for autonomous driving and robotics. Here, AI experts from a wide range of corporate divisions work together on technologies such as Computer Vision (machine vision), Hybrid…
Continental realigning Contitech; consolidating auto business
German tech firm Continental says it is realigning its ContiTech group sector, which specialises in material-driven solutions, with the aim of increasing effectiveness and efficiency as well as customer and market proximity. To this end, the group sector will focus…
Continental strengthens drive belt portfolio with uniform brand ID
German technology firm Continental says it is strengthening its drive belt portfolio with a globally uniform brand identity. It says customers will be able to read the performance level as well as the properties of a belt directly from the…
Continental/SMX work on marker tracking of NR in tyres
German tyre maker Continental and Security Matters (SMX), a tech platform specialising in digital tracking using unalterable chemical-based barcodes, have succeeded for the first time in verifying a marker substance for natural rubber in a tyre, and thus throughout the…
Continental acquires 3rd conveyor belt specialist in Sweden
In line with its move to expand its industrial business, German tech firm Continental AG has acquired a third conveyor belt specialist firm in Sweden. Backes Transportbandservice AB, from Växjö, is a service provider for the material handling industry in…
Continental awarded EUR2 bn contract for dry brake system in the US
German technology company Continental says it has received a major award in the third quarter for the series production of its semi-dry brake system (also known as Future Brake System, FBS), valued about EUR1.5 billion. This success increases the liftetime…
Additional plant breeder teams up in Continental dandelion project
Continental Tire’s Taraxagum project, which focuses on the acquisition of natural rubber from dandelions, has expanded its research network with the plant breeder Kartoffelzucht Böhm. The aim of the reinforcement is to gain even greater clout in the breeding of…