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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has launched the all-new Goodyear ElectricDrive™ all-season tire and two new sizes for its ultra-high performance tire, the Goodyear ElectricDrive™ GT. With the addition of four new sizes to its EV tire lineup, Goodyear ElectricDrive is now a fit for 44% more battery electric vehicles operating in the U.S. today.

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies will be presenting food compliant materials and seals at drinktec 2022 trade show from September 12-16 in Munich (Germany) in Hall B3.249. These products and materials are certified to meet the latest regulatory requirements for food contact materials and address the temperature, media resistance and CIP/SIP needs prevalent in the food sector. The following materials will be profiled at the show.
Peroxide-crosslinked fluoroelastomer 75 FKM 239961

Dipankar Ghosh has joined Apollo Tyres as Group Head, Human Resources (HR) for the Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA) region. Dipankar has joined in a regional senior leadership role at Apollo Tyres and would be leading the regional HR team

Smithers announces that Matt Kent, Technical Director, Smithers Tire & Wheel Test Center, is participating in a panel discussion on the future of tire testing at the 41st annual Tire Society Conference. This year’s conference theme is “New Horizons in Tire Evaluation.”

X-Compound, a company of the TROESTER Group, presents its technology for the compounding of challenging materials. X-Compound’s Continuous Kneader technology is able to push boundaries in the production of sensitive blends and highly filled compounds. Thus, demanding processes can be realized in a highly efficient way.

The latest edition of the World Rubber Industry Outlook (WRIO) is now available. The current forecast in WRIO comprises two economic scenarios: Base Case Scenario rooted from the IMF’s base line GDP forecast; Downside Scenario which mainly reflects the economic damage from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, elevated inflation worldwide and subsequent tightening in the global financial conditions. Advanced economies seem to be more negatively impacted than emerging market economies and a gradual recovery back toward Base Scenario will only commence from 2026.

Beacon MedTech Solutions, formerly Built-Rite, Reliance & LSR Engineering announced the hiring of James Porter as Vice President of Sales & Business Development. In this position, Porter will join Beacon MedTech’s leadership team to set short- and long-term strategies for growth while supporting new customers with solutions that leverage the company’s contract manufacturing, tool transfer and assembly capabilities

Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. announced that they have begun supplying high-performance FALKEN “ZIEX ZE310A ECORUN” tires to NISSAN Motor Corporation for use as factory standard tires on their latest model X-Trail, which launched in July 2022.

Birla Carbon has partnered in a study led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL) on Carbon Anode Material from Biomass Pyrolysis Oil. This study will be presented at the American Chemical Society Conference, to be held from August 21 – 25, 2022, in Chicago, USA.