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Continental sustainable tire research project nominated for award | Tire Technology International
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Sustainable tires through dandelions – innovations from biology, technology and agriculture joint research project shows that a new, alternative raw material supply is possible
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Team of Continental, Fraunhofer IME and the University of Münster Nominated for Federal President s Award
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Rubber Made From Dandelions is Making Tires More Sustainable â Truly a Wondrous Plant
May 15, 2021
As companies continue to search for more environmentally regenerative materials to use in manufacturing, the tire industry is beginning to revisit an old Soviet method of rubber cultivation, using a plant that is considered a pesky weed in the Westâdandelions.
Dandelion field in Russia by Vadim Indeikin, CC license
A major tire company in Germany has partnered with the University of Aachen to produce dandelion rubber tires in a bid to cut back on landfill waste, microplastic pollution, deforestation, and economic shortcomings related to rubber tree cultivation.
By Kit Chapman2021-01-11T09:14:00+00:00
From their colonial roots to future alternatives, Kit Chapman looks at the chemistry of natural elastomers
In the jungles of Brazil, near to where the dark waters of the Rio Negro meet the vast, muddy flow of the Amazon, a worker scrapes expertly at a tree. The trunk is already stripped of bark in places, scarred by countless previous wounds that have left a criss-crossed mess of scratches, but with careful management years of useful life still remain. Pulling away his curved blade, a cross between a carving knife and a machete, the worker points to the edge of the bark he’s pulled free. Already, a milk-white stream of latex has begun to appear, leaking from the cut like blood from a cut. Slowly, it drips into a waiting iron cup.