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– 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.”

Since 2017, thousands of Goodyear associates, retirees and family members have contributed more than 27,000 hours of volunteer service as part of Global Week of Volunteering activities. This year, more than 1,300 Goodyear volunteers will participate in volunteering activities at 23 locations across 21 countries worldwide.

International TPE compounder HEXPOL TPE has added to their growing portfolio of Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) materials containing recycled content. The new Dryflex Circular MWR TPEs contain recyclate coming from post-use maritime ropes.For the MWR raw materials, HEXPOL TPE is working with PLASTIX A/S, a Danish plastic recycling company specialising in sorting and recycling plastic fibre waste from the maritime industry. They convert used fishnets, trawls and ropes that would previously have ended up in the ocean or on landfill into high-grade and virgin-like raw material.

– The PIRELLI 35 inflatable boat made by Tecnorib, licensee of the PIRELLI and PZERO trademarks for inflatable boats, has won the Red Dot Design Award 2022, one of the most important accolades in the world for the last 30 years, assigned by a jury of about 50 international design experts. A special edition of this walkaround will be exhibited from 7 to 12 June at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, an event that attracts more than 370,000 visitors from all around the world every year.