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The Rubber Division, ACS Technical Training and Scholarship opportunities deadline has been extended to April 1st.

Austrian injection molding machine manufacturer ENGEL has set a new record with two injection molding machines delivered to the USA. With a clamping force of 8,000 tons each, they are the largest machines ever built at the St. Valentin plant in Austria. The two ENGEL duo 130000/130000H/8200 combi US machines were placed at Infiltrator Water Technologies (IWT) in Winchester, Kentucky. The subsidiary of Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS) produces water management products there.

Alpha Technologies announced the 30th anniversary of the Rubber Process Analyzer (RPA). This milestone is a major move for Alpha Technologies on its mission to provide quality products, excellent service and support to its customers. The newest line of Rubber Process Analyzers from Alpha Technologies innovates on 30 years of history and knowledge.

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., announced that it is expanding passenger car tire production capacity in India to meet the increasing demands from the local market. With an additional investment of US$82 million, the company looks to increase its annual passenger car tire production capacity in India with Yokohama India Pvt. Ltd. (YIN), its local passenger car tire manufacturing and sales subsidiary, from the current 2.8 million to 4.5 million tires.

VMI celebrated the opening of 3 new production assembly halls at its manufacturing site in Leszno, Poland. This will bring the total available floorspace for production of VMI’s high-tech machinery in Poland to almost 30,000 square meters.

Gilles Mabire, Chief Technology Officer Continental Automotive, welcomed the capital’s AI community to Continental´s AI Lab for the first time. Here, AI experts from a wide range of corporate divisions work together on technologies such as Computer Vision (machine vision), Hybrid AI (combination of machine learning with conventional software programs) or Automated Data Labelling (marking objects in images, for example, as a prerequisite for machine learning) and develop corresponding applications around autonomous driving and robotics.

DuPont announced it has been named one of the 2023 America’s Top Corporations for Women’s Business Enterprises (WBEs) by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). The America’s Top Corporations award is the only national award honoring corporations for world-class supplier diversity programs that reduce barriers and drive growth for women-owned businesses.

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.