Tires have been around far longer than most realize. A few legendary brands began in the 1800s, each claiming to be the very ...

Goodyear Tire & Rubber has been granted a patent for a low-cost vulcanization accelerator that improves cure rates and reduces scorch in rubber compositions. The accelerator, a monofunctional thiuram ...

COLOGNE, Germany—Specialty chemicals company Lanxess A.G. says it is focused on high-performance rubber additives and cleaner release solutions to meet the needs of tire manufacturers. The industry is ...

HANOVER, Germany—Lanxess's Rhein Chemie business unit will present products for tire manufacturing during the Tire Technology Expo in Hanover, Feb. 20-22, at Booth 4014. The products include a range ...

The reactive tire bladder release agent market is projected to grow steadily as manufacturers prioritize production ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.—Between devulcanization, rubberized asphalt and fine-mesh rubber powders, rubber recycling was a prominent theme at the 29th annual Clemson University Tire Industry Conference ...

Hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years before Charles Goodyear discovered the vulcanization process that made commercial rubber viable, Mesoamerican peoples were carrying out a similar process ...

Danbury, Conn., Feb. 12, 2003 — FuelCell Energy Inc. announced that a Direct FuelCell® (DFC®) power plant built by its partner in Europe, MTU CFC Solutions Gmbh has begun operating at a Michelin tire ...

HOUSTON, Feb. 18-- The German energy firm EnBW Energie Baden-Wurttemberg AG has begun operation of a direct fuel cell (DFC) power plant at a Michelin tire plant in Karlsruhe, Germany. The plant, which ...

JINAN, China (Aug. 12, 2008) — In an attempt to discover a new generation of ecologically friendly tires, the Silvio Tronchetti Provera Foundation and the University of Shandong have signed a research ...

The Starr report? Forget it, man. Around Richmond International Raceway, folks were far more interested in every juicy detail of Friday afternoon’s long-awaited Goodyear report. Its no-surprise-here ...