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 ...

Tire sustainability materials now shape sourcing, production, and additives as manufacturers reduce reliance on traditional rubber sources.

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 ...

In 2009, a company called SNRG Corp. announced the purchase of an advanced rubber devulcanization technology. The firm said it would use the process to build a facility in Houston to extract 80 ...

Getting a flat tire might never be an entirely hassle-free experience, but before too long it may no longer be necessary to patch or replace punctured tires. Instead, thanks to research currently ...

A cut or torn tire usually means one thing -- you have to buy a new one. But some day, that could change. For the first time, scientists have made tire-grade rubber without the processing step -- ...

Butyl rubber has been used for many years in tire curing bladder formulations in combination with phenol formaldehyde resin cure in order to meet the demanding service conditions that the bladder ...

The vulcanization of rubber was one of the great industrial discoveries of the technologically busy 19th century. By vulcanization, the gooey substance from trees was made, as Charles Slack writes in ...