Qingdao Xiangjie Rubber Machinery has unveiled details of the company’s latest intelligent solid tire press at Tire Technology Expo.
Micro-Poise Measurement Systems is presenting its ITMS RoboLube at this year’s Tire Technology Expo, a robotic system for the lubrification of the tire bead prior to being fitted to a rim.
This year’s Tire Technology International Awards for Innovation and Excellence have been announced during an evening reception at the Deutsche Messe in Hannover, which is hosting Tire Technology Expo 2022. The awards are a celebration of recent advancements in tire technology, progress towards a greener industry and also recognize the personal achievements of some remarkable individuals.
Bareiss is exhibiting the company’s latest range of hardness, resistance, resilience and abrasion testers at Tire Technology Expo.
Herrmann Ultraschall is showcasing its latest Ultrasonic Cutting Technology at this year’s Tire Technology Expo.
CarbonX is presenting its carbon black alternative material at Tire Technology Expo. The company’s new carbon material is composed of nano-sized carbon filaments which are chemically connected to form a three-dimensional micron-sized network.
Italian company NTE Process is exhibiting its latest dense phase pneumatic conveying system with Air Assist at Tire Technology Expo 2022.
With tire manufacturers having to manage an ever-increasing number of tire specifications, they face significant challenges to maintain output at required levels when batches get shorter and more size changes have to be made at every step of the process. This calls for flexible solutions that allow smaller production runs with the lowest cost per tire.
Following the launch of its Continua Sustainable Carbonaceous Materials (SCM), carbon black manufacturer Birla Carbon is showcasing its Continua 8000 SCM, a sustainable and greener alternative to traditionally used furnace carbon black.
Danfoss is shining a spotlight on its Vickers by Danfoss HPU (Hydraulic Power Unit) at Tire Technology Expo. The HPU is a complete hydraulic system for tire manufacturing machinery supplied in a single, comprehensive and convenient package.
Italian automatic weighing equipment specialist Lawer is showing its Supersincro fully automated dosing systems at this year’s Tire Technology Expo. Leveraging the company’s expertise in weighing powder products such as pigments, additives and chemicals, Lawer’s products – which are based on single- or multi-scale processes – enable increased reliability, safety and efficiency.
Versalis is using Tire Technology Expo to exhibit its latest sustainable elastomer materials. These include the next-generation fn-S-SBR developed for a stronger polymer-filler interaction, and a new high-cis BR with a specially designed structure to improve overall compound performance.
Digitalization is an important trend in tire production. To meet demand from customers, Siemens is presenting a broad digital enterprise portfolio for the whole value chain at Tire Technology Expo. Specifically for tire manufacturers and machine builders, the company has enhanced the capabilities of its digital twins for tire production machines and plants. The most significant development is the incorporation of multiphysics process models in addition to mechatronics models, allowing for greater efficiency and advanced process monitoring on production lines.
Polymer Research Lab will be displaying the range of services it offers dedicated to the development of new methods and systems for the physical testing of polymeric materials and simulation of their characteristics.
Alpha Technologies is a leader in applying rheology science to testing that makes a difference in the rubber and polymer world.
AMETEK Micro-Poise’s CTXS Plus is the first X-ray system in the market with a multi-axis robot and offers improved tire handling, increased reliability, flexibility, and maintainability.
Global belting leader Habasit is the premium solution provider to the global tire industry, with a particular focus on top-quality regional and local support in Asia.
Mesnac’s continuing drive towards automated and smart tire building solutions is embodied in its latest tire building machine, the P-PRO2 Extra, designed and produced at the Mesnac European Research and Technical Centre in Slovakia.
The 2022 release of the Endurica fatigue life solver brings CAE engineers a significant new capability for modeling tire damage. Practically any scenario, or combination of scenarios, that a tire might encounter in the testing lab or in the field can now be simulated.
A new wear testing concept from Kokusai TWT includes three key innovations
The hydraulic hopper ram group G3 type HHR-Powder Free has exceptionally compact dimensions in order to facilitate assembly on existing mixing lines with limited spaces.
S-TMQ Pro is the latest launch of high performance TMQ product by Sennics. It belongs to a general quinoline antioxidant agent with excellent thermo-oxidative ageing resistance in the rubber industry.
With the RFID chips embedded between rubber strips and placed in the tire,
tire manufacturers have a robust and already approved solution for this mission.
KE Fischer Pin Type Extruder Generation SE90 / SE120.
This recently developed KE Fischer extruder with its specially designed control concept was specifically designed for its integration into cutting lines.
Systems for non-contact marking in all areas of tire production will be presented by full-range supplier REA at Tire Technology Expo 2022 in Hannover.
Tire manufacturers trust the reliable and proven measurement systems for steel cord processing supplied by Roland Electronic. Roland’s SIS XP and SIS G3 systems convince with their high process reliability and easy handling in the field of online quality monitoring.
The SAR automation portfolio includes cells for various supplier sectors, such as the tire industry, through to complete production lines. In addition, the company offers AI solutions and AR and VR support.
The IPCC report and COP26 have updated and drawn attention to the climate issue and indicated the direction for the industry’s change.
Vision Tire System 3D is an innovative three-dimensional vision system to detect any defect that occurs on a tire.
Drawing on its Twaron para-aramid technology, Teijin Aramid is working closely with the tire industry to create ‘the tire of the future’ and support society’s sustainable mobility transition.
Cray Valley is part of the refining and chemical division of the energy major TotalEnergies. It delivers a broad line of premium sulfur and peroxide-cure technologies to the rubber market.
Positioning lasers reach the limits of visibility in broad daylight. As a countermeasure, the output power is usually increased, thus jeopardizing the safety of your employees due to a higher laser class
GACZ has developed many different types of spring vents for special applications based on customers’ requests, and all of them will be presented at the expo.
Curing bladders are relatively simple items used in the manufacture of new tires but play a critical role in terms of the cost and quality of final products. Demand for them is largely concentrated in the new tire industry.
Primo1D’s E-Thread tag provides a unique, high-durability, plastic-free RFID UHF solution for product identification, authentication and traceability.
The F190-B40 read/write head is designed for reliable identification of green tires. Typically, the UHF reader is integrated into the gripper of the curing press.
Founded in 2017, ZS Elastomers is a joint venture of Zeon Corporation and Sumitomo Chemicals in the field of S-SBR business and technology to create a synergy and deal successfully with the technical and environmental challenges of a constantly changing global tire world.
Faster is not always better. That’s why Zeppelin Systems has designed its own conveying systems to ensure high-volume yet gentle conveying of process powders, ensuring low-level fine powder (fines) or pellet breakage.
Matching sustainability with tire performance will be the new challenge that polymer producers and tire makers will have to face.
Leading tire makers have embarked on digital transformation programs and pilots over the last five years – even longer for the pioneers.
Pelmar Engineering will present its tire Rectifier equipment at Tire Technology Expo this year.
At Tire Technology Expo 2022, Netzsch-Gerätebau will present three of its technologies: DMA GABO EPLEXOR 500 N, DIPLEXOR 500 N and GABOMETER 2000 N.
MO.S.A.I.C. has completely designed and manufactured a robotized automatic wheel-rim assembly line.
The Marbo SpA group, based in Italy, along with Marbocote Ltd in the UK, will show several new release/coating technologies at Tire Technology Expo 2022 that have been proved to significantly increase production rates and reduce process costs.
The Strip Laminator is a powerful tool developed by Marangoni Machinery. It creates tire profiles through additive manufacturing algorithms.
Founded in 1970, Lawer is an Italian company specialized in automatic weighing equipment for powder products, including pigments, additives and chemicals. Its products based on single- or multi-scale enable increased reliability, safety and efficiency of the process.
As an expert partner for the tire manufacturing industry, KraussMaffei delivers complete leading-edge systems to produce tire components. The company’s goal is to offer the made-to-measure solutions needed to succeed in today’s fast-moving competition.
The Kobelco MIXTRON BB series of rubber internal intensive mixers offer a variety of modern tangential and intermeshing rotors, like 5THR and KIR-2, allowing customers to select the best rotor type for mixing their products.
A key enabling technology for Intralox’s consulting service is the Intralox Dual-Stacked Angled Roller Belt (DARB) Sorter.
Over the years, Himile has skillfully applied 3D printing technology, laser engraving technology, puzzle mold technology and spring vent plugs in tire molds, providing advanced tire mold solutions.
Electrification of transportation is accelerating. Range is a key adoption barrier for consumers and has created demand for better rolling resistance in EV tires.
Skilled Group is a specialist in automation solutions. It is particularly active in the production line, offering automation in high-density floor storage with gantry robots.
Operating worldwide for 21 years through a network of local agents, the French company Dufournier is a leading industrial group in tire testing, measurement and performance analysis.
DRI Rubber believes in the best circular alternative by caring for the environment, its clients and its workers. The company puts great effort into creating and delivering consistent, high-performing rubber products and global solutions.
Desmasa has several patents that allow it to fully automate tire manufacturing processes. Its robot marking system is a solution designed to mark all types and sizes of tires.
CyXplus supplies tire manufacturers with solutions ranging from fully automated implementations to off-line analysis using x-ray, industrial vision, image processing and AI. It covers the needs of motorcycle, passenger, truck, bus and off-road tires.
Cryonomic and Metaltecno have joined forces to develop a fully automated robotic system for tire mold cleaning.
The need to make systems that are friendly for the end user is a challenge that forces machine manufacturers to introduce a very high level of automation in terms of production control systems and maintenance.
RJS Corporation is a worldwide supplier of supporting equipment to the tire industry and a leading supplier of creel room equipment. It continues to improve creel room operations by introducing a centralized controls platform with enhanced capabilities.
Since 1999, cooperation with leaders in the tire industry has led Metravib, a world-renowned dynamic mechanical analysis specialist, to market innovative instruments to address crack growth testing and bring quantitative testing solutions to the research and rubber industries.
Advances in proprietary hardware have resulted in much faster recording rates for high-resolution pressure sensors. Furthermore, advances in the dynamic response rate of sensors mean that cleaner images and more reliable pressure data are available.
Vipo has invested considerable resources in R&D to create new solutions for its customers. The company’s augmented assistance program offers the ability to share images online and create meetings between equipment producers, specialists and end customers.
Uzer Makina is a tire technology provider that has served top tire makers all around the world with its tire curing presses and molds since 1978.
TMSI has developed the TM-PCR400 and TM-TBR225 tire buffing systems for passenger, light truck and truck tires. Customers can quickly grind the tires at specific levels of wear to prepare them for tests of their performance throughout their lifecycle.
Starrett-Bytewise produces laser measurement systems to help tire makers improve quality and reduce the impact of non-conforming processes. Its lasers and cameras can watch processes continuously, so workers don’t have to.
Schubert & Salzer’s unique sliding gate valve has proved itself as a superior control valve solution in tire curing presses. The GS valves 8028 and 8021 product line controls steam, hot water and nitrogen precisely, quickly and economically.
Turret technology offers the ability to perform an automatic roll change without stopping the production line and without operator intervention. Mondon introduced turret technology to the tire industry 12 years ago to increase the productivity and efficiency of tire plants.
NTE Process is a single-source provider of turnkey systems with process solutions for Industry 4.0, ranging from dense phase pneumatic conveying to mixing, liquid injection, drying, atomization, in-line formulation and packing.
The LGT-S Laser is a special high-precision laser engraving machine for tire sidewall molds. All the know-how Lang has gained from the conventional production of tire sidewall molds and its experience with laser engraving technology in other industries is combined in the LGT-S Laser.
Glebus Alloys has four product lines: spring vent technology applications for any types of tire molds; sliding (wear) plates for tire mold containers in different shapes and forms; self-lubricated bearings and bushings for tire machinery equipment; and weekly DOT plugs from a very high-performance elastomeric material.
Virtual development has taken its place at the forefront of the vehicle development process in the design, test, and validation stages. Once a manufacturer has identified a vehicle’s DNA – the performance characteristics synonymous with its brand – standards must be maintained.
The LabManual series from Fontijne Presses are manually operated hydraulic laboratory presses. These highly acclaimed benchtop devices are used in many laboratories around the world to prepare samples for quality control and R&D purposes.
The vulcanization process requires many material flows with different pressures and temperatures, but only one process valve series: the VZXA angle seat valve from Festo, an innovation leader for electrical and pneumatic automation.
Tire wear emissions represent a widespread and growing challenge as vehicles become heavier, not least due to the battery weight in electric vehicles.
Danfoss will use the Tire Technology Expo to shine the spotlight on its Vickers by Danfoss HPU (Hydraulic Power Unit), a complete hydraulic solution for tire manufacturing machinery supplied in a single, comprehensive and convenient package.
Continental Bladders has developed a series of newly designed curing bladders to meet the requirements of manufacturers of big radial OTR tires.
Bareiss has launched a new rubber process analyzer. The RPA Ultra can run isothermal and non-isothermal time tests, stress relaxation, frequency sweep, strain sweep and temperature sweep.
Phoenix Solution has developed a cutting-edge embeddable RFID tag for tires after conducting thousands of studies on the internal structure of tires.
The tire business segment of IMG, a specialist in textile reinforcement solutions, is working to reduce tire weight, rolling resistance and noise, and enhance endurance as well as high-temperature performance.
Due to the low adhesion tendency of steel bonding to rubber, adhesion promoter systems are used to improve the functioning of tires.
Kuraray will announce the latest results of the lifecycle assessment (LCA) and the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission index information of liquid farnesene rubber.
To solve challenges in the production of runflat tires, Lanxess has developed permanently coated bladders. These specially coated bladders require no additional release agents, whether applied to the bladder or the green tire, to ensure a smooth molding process in the tire press.
Chem-Trend has developed breakthrough non-silicone inside-tire paint solutions that help save customers time and money by simplifying the additional downstream processing required for some specific tire applications
CarbonX is composed of nano-sized carbon filaments that are chemically connected to form a three-dimensional micron-sized network.
Saurer Twisting Solutions will present its newest CableCorder CC5 at the expo.
With more focus on the environmental friendliness and expansion of the EV market, further improvement of rolling resistance and wear resistance is needed for tire tread materials. Responding to market demands, JSR Corporation will show its three new S-SBR technologies at the expo.
Each year more than one billion tires reach the end of their life, creating more than 13.5 million tons of solid waste. The waste tires, also known as end-of-life tires (ELTs), contain around 25% high-quality carbon black.
Color Service has designed and built an innovative and reliable system that guarantees 24/7 repeatability, traceability and accuracy of the dosing process for small chemicals for tire and rubber compounding.
Cimcorp will showcase the various ways in which the latest evolution of its proven Dream Factory solution addresses today’s tire plant challenges. As SKU proliferation, sustainability demands and the need for supply chain resilience increase, it has never been more important to optimize material flows and inventory.
The dimensionCONTROL TMWI 8302.LC system is suitable for inline weight inspection of continuous running rubber profiles (tread pattern or sidewalls) for passenger and truck tires.
Nynas recently introduced NYTEX BIO 6200, its first bio-based tire oil. Combining excellent performance in tires with increased sustainability, NYTEX BIO 6200 reinforces Nynas’s commitment to take sustainability further without compromising on performance.
Automatic wheel assembly has the challenge of incorporating automation processes for a wide variety of products in a logistics warehouse: imagine providing a 38in excavator tire and then, immediately afterwards, a set of 8in light trailer tires.
Digitalization is one of the main trends in tire production. Therefore, Siemens is presenting a broad Digital Enterprise portfolio for the whole value chain, especially for tire manufacturers and machine builders.
At Tire Technology Expo 2022, Erhardt+Leimer will debut a machine that produces high-quality RFID tags. The finished tags consist of two laminated rubber strips with an RFID chip inside.
Material handling specialist Pesmel will showcase its latest innovation in finished tire handling and dispatching at Tire Technology Expo 2022. The innovation is based on the fact that internal tire logistics does not need palletization.
The ZF LUB6 TBR is the new final-finish tire test equipment for the inspection of truck and bus radial tires.
There are many tire test systems on the market that measure either uniformity or dynamic unbalance independently.
Spoolex is pleased to introduce its new solutions for slitting and rewinding spooling to increase productivity.
For non-stop processing, Spoolex’s Calemard brand offers compact, easy-to-use in-line solutions to produce high-quality pads or spools directly from the calendering line.
At Tire Technology Expo 2022, Parker will promote two products that demonstrate the company’s ongoing commitment to the tire industry and its desire to create safe, sustainable engineering solutions.
Hofmann Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH will soon release its new ATG-EVO automatic tire grading line. The newly developed machine has a multitude of technical innovations and focuses on Industry 4.0 as well as ecological considerations.
The Global Data Service Organisation for Tyres and Automotive Components (GDSO) is a new international non-profit association founded by Bridgestone, Continental, Goodyear, Michelin and Pirelli.
Synthos is moving in the green direction with the introduction of its latest developments in functionalized high-molecular-weight S-SBR for ultra-high-performance tires for electric vehicles. These combine wet grip performance with electric vehicle range extension while addressing increased tire wear requirements.
Cassioli will unveil a brand-new tire storage machine at Tire Technology Expo 2022. The Cassioli Multilevel Shuttle has been designed to store different types of materials and products, from green tires to finished tires.
At Tire Technology Expo 2022, UTH will present its innovative TRP Reworker based on the two-roll plasticizer (TRP) with an integrated roll-ex gear pump.
Mesnac will present its new P-PRO2 Extra tire building machine at Tire Technology Expo, ready for fully automatic production of passenger, light truck and off-road tires.
Customers are eager to reduce the overall energy demand per tire cured, to reduce CO2 emissions and the associated costs. HF undertook research in process optimization and product benchmarking to identify the most promising solutions when it comes to equipping the curing press.
With an ever-increasing number of tire specifications to be managed, it is highly challenging to maintain output at required levels when batches get shorter and more size changes have to be made at every step of the process. This calls for flexible solutions that allow smaller production runs with the lowest cost per tire.
At Tire Technology Expo, GL Inspect will present a new optical 3D measurement system called TriScanTire Fusion, which unites portability, measurability, customizability and accuracy.
