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Heading into the 101st Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, Yokohama Tire is looking to repeat as King of the Mountain. The tiremaker, which overpowered the field last year on ADVAN® tires (overall champion, 10 podium finishes, four division wins and four of the top five overall finishers), will field 27 drivers in multiple divisions during the 12.42.-mile legendary “Race to the Clouds,” which takes place June 25 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. announced that riders equipped with their high-performance DUNLOP Brand tires won the title of Series Champion in every class (“450SX,” “250SX East,” “250SX West”) at the 2023 AMA Supercross Championship, locking in their victories at the final race of the tournament, which was held this past May 13 in Salt Lake City (USA). This marks the fourteenth consecutive year in which riders using DUNLOP tires have dominated in every class at the AMA Supercross Championship.

The six-city, 10-round, adrenaline-filled series is headlined by the Group E class, which features the world’s fastest electric race car, the FC1-X. Nitrocross events integrate enormous jumps with massive, banked turns on a variety of track surfaces all in a single lap. These innovative tracks test the skill and bravery of some of the world’s best drivers like Yokohama-sponsored athlete Travis Pastrana.

Specialty Silicone Products (SSP) hires Taylor Smith as their new Research Development Technician. Taylor joined SSP last August and is part of a team that is led by R&D Manager Sarah Lewis and includes Amelia Berry, Product Development Chemist, and Gary Falchi, Applications Engineer. Recently, Taylor performed laboratory research for an SSP technical article that will appear in the June 2023 edition of Rubber World magazine.

– TechnoBiz is organizing 2nd Edition of “Middle East Rubber & Tyre Expo 2023” during 21-22 November 2023 at Sharjah Expo Centre in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. This event is aimed to be a meeting point rubber and tire industries in Middle East Region. This event is formerly called as “Arab Rubber Expo”. It is renamed as “Middle East Rubber & Tyre Expo 2023”.

The event will take place Tuesday, June 20th, from 12:00pm to 4:00pm at the A2Mac1 facility in Belleville, MI. During the event, participants will receive a facility tour of A2Mac1, review A2Mac1’s extensive database, and have a hands-on look at each individual piece, rubber and all, of a recently-released automotive.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company introduced the newest EV-ready tire for communities around the country looking to drive their buses and transit fleets more efficiently while transitioning to more sustainable battery electric vehicles. The new Urban Max BSAEV (Bus Service All-Position) tire was specially designed in partnership with GILLIG, the leading manufacturer of American-built heavy-duty transit buses. The Urban Max BSAEV is the first Goodyear tire engineered specifically with low rolling resistance for EV transit and metro buses to help extend rang* and handle the increased load capacity.

As its annual congressional fly-in approaches, the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association (USTMA) issued its 2023 federal legislative priorities letter to House and Senate leadership of the 118th Congress outlining key areas of continued cooperation to address the evolving areas of tire safety, environmental stewardship and innovation. USTMA previously engaged with Congress on policies to promote innovative infrastructure technologies and to better position the U.S. tire manufacturing industry to tackle future challenges. The current priorities agenda continues to address those issues while expanding their scope to include equal and standardized access to vehicle data assets and the development of a domestic supply chain of natural rubber.