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Car tires are round, black and made of rubber. Look closer, however, and you’ll see that the design of tires and the interaction of the various materials that go into making them are extremely complex. But for some time now, the material experts and tire engineers at Continental have been bringing about a silent revolution. By 2050 at the latest, all tires are to be made of sustainable materials. There is still a long way to go until then. But step by step, it is already becoming apparent which raw materials will find their way into tire construction in the future. These include waste products from agriculture – such as the ash from rice husks – rubber from dandelions, recycled rubber or PET bottles.

Zeppelin Systems has spent over 40 years as a solution provider for the tire industry, spearheading new priorities not only in tire production, but also the recycling of end-of-life tires. The Friedrichshafen-based plant engineering company is a solutions provider along the value chain, and welcomes as a partner the Recykl Group, an established Polish market leader in the management of post-consumer waste in the form of end-of-life tires. Set to start on February 3rd, 2023, this partnership is being made in alignment with the integrated circular economy concept.

The Zhuzhou Rubber Research & Design Institute Co, under China National Chemical Corporation, has denied it had any connection with the U.S. “spy balloon” incident.

Apollo Tyres has developed tires with 75% sustainable materials. This is aligned with Apollo Tyres’ sustainability roadmap of increasing the usage of sustainable raw material to 40% by 2030.

Rubber Division, ACS invites your submissions for inclusion in their International Elastomer Conference Technical Meeting & Student Symposium
October 17-19, 2023 in Cleveland, OH. All abstracts received by May 21, 2023 will be considered for the program.

On March 7th, 2023, Alliance Rubber Company, a woman-owned small business, U.S. manufacturer of rubber bands, and the source for hundreds of bundling and branding solutions serving the global community, will celebrate its Centennial Anniversary. This marks 100 years of Alliance offering the benchmark rubber bands and highest quality options for “Holding Your World Together.

Included in the areas banned from sending rubber planting materials are Basilan province in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and the Zamboanga Peninsula that comprised Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga Sibugay provinces; and the cities of Isabela, Dapitan, Dipolog, Pagadian and Zamboanga.

IEC Expo 2023 will be held at the Cleveland Convention Center – Cleveland, OH on Tuesday, Oct. 17; 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Wednesday, Oct. 18; 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; and Thursday, Oct. 19; 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

WOMEN OF OUR INDUSTRY: Join the Rubber Division for their WORD Conversations event on March 29th 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. ET with featured guest Krista Toutant. This WORD Conversation begins with open networking for approximately 10 minutes followed by a conversation between our featured guest, Krista Toutant, the current Chair-elect, and Terry DeLapa, the Rubber Division’s 1st ever woman Chair.