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Increasing demand and port congestion is leading to greater utilization of port vehicles, resulting in new challenges for port operators. Continental’s product and service portfolio aims to effectively support the expansion and intelligent networking of international port logistics. With a comprehensive range of tires and intelligent tire management solutions, Continental offers solutions for individual requirements. Continental tires used in daily port operations are characterized by safety, optimized performance, positive environmental effects and significant cost-lowering potential.

The EV industry needs electrically-conductive gaskets that combine proven environmental resistance with reliable shielding against electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI). Electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers and gasket fabricators have a choice of materials, but EMI/RFI elastomers from Specialty Silicone Products (SSP) are solving sealing and shielding challenges – and more.

Heico Companies announced that on March 24, 2022 its subsidiary Davies Molding, LLC completed the acquisition of a world-class, high precision injection molder EA Plastics. EA is a global supplier shipping to international clients in Europe, China and South America  from their 30,000 square ft. facility. Headquartered in Flora, MS., the acquired business adds 15 injection molding presses, a full in-house tool repair shop and a wealth of molding and engineering knowledge to the Davies brand. These capabilities will complement Davies capacity in it’s current 99,000 square foot facility in Carol Stream, IL.  where Davies houses forty-five thermoset compression molding machines, five thermoset injection molding machines, and twenty-four thermoplastic injection molding machines, as well as finishing machines

– R.D. Abbott Co., Inc. (RDAbbott) is hosting “Manufacturing with Silicone Rubber,” a comprehensive workshop for fabricators from August 22 to 25, 2022. This four-day course includes two days of classroom-style instruction at the Bounce Innovation Hub in Akron, Ohio, and two days of hands-on learning at RDAbbott’s Service Center in Barberton, Ohio. RDAbbott’s Craig Lustek, Application Engineer, and Rick Ziebell, Vice President of Technology and Technical Fellow are among the instructors, all of whom have extensive silicone knowledge and experience. The interactive part of the workshop will enable participants to apply what they are learning by using industry-leading materials and state-of-the-art equipment at RDAbbott’s 127,126 sq. ft. facility in Barberton, Ohio.

India’s Rubber Board’s e-trading platform mRube went live on June 8. The board intends to complement the existing trade system for rubber by introducing more transparency coupled with quality assurance and payment security through mRube.

The exhaust gas of the rubber industry has large volume and complex composition, and contains a large amount of dust and oil. After the previous detection and analysis of the exhaust gas composition, combined with the customer’s production process, and using the industry experience accumulated by MESNAC for more than 20 years, the first domestic set of five-bed ultra-large volume RTO (Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer) treatment of organic exhaust gas device was successfully delivered. The project has the characteristics of large air volume, high processing efficiency, safe and stable operation, high degree of automation, simpler maintenance, and meeting the strict environmental protection emission standards of the rubber industry.

e Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company said it will participate in a fireside chat during Deutsche Bank’s Global Auto Industry Conference on June 14, 2022, at 10:15 a.m. EDT.
Emmanuel Rosner, lead autos & auto technology analyst at Deutsche Bank, will host Darren R. Wells, executive vice president and chief financial officer, in a fireside chat. A live webcast of the event will be available on the company’s investor relations website: http://investor.goodyear.com. A replay of the webcast will be available following the event.

– Bridgestone Retail Operations (Bridgestone), a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas, launched a two-week fundraising competition with NFL players from Tight End University (TEU) in support of Boys & Girls Clubs of America. The campaign is the latest activation in the Bridgestone Driving Great Futures partnership, which has raised more than $20 million to support Boys & Girls Clubs nationwide since the program’s inception in 2015.

Continental has developed a brand-new premium surface material: Benova Eco Protect. Its advantages: It makes vehicle interiors more sustainable, durable, and comfortable at the same time. The surface material is currently being manufactured in Germany. Further production capacities will be made available at Continental’s American plant in Winchester, Virginia.

“The A055 is a max-grip, flat-out fast tire,” said Drew Dayton, Yokohama’s senior product planning manager, consumer tires. “It is purpose built for on-track racing with impressively fast lap times and continues Yokohama’s decades-long legacy of UHP and motorsports tires.”