New developments in bio-engineering are leading advancements in the industry, with materials such as dandelions making tyres more sustainable
Two of the tyre maker’s Metro Miler bus tyres have gone into production in North America made using a proportion of surplus soybean oil, a leftover from the food industry. In total, it replaces 325ml of petroleum oil per tyre, which on a fleet of 1600 buses represents a saving of around 20 barrels of oil.
In April this year, Goodyear also announced a programme involving the US Department of Defense, the Air Force Research Lab and Biomade along with an Ohio firm, Farmed Materials, to make sustainable natural rubber. Research analysing 2500 species of plants identified Taraxacum kok-saghyz, a Russian dandelion species known simply as TK.
Continental is ahead of the game on that one and has been researching the use of the same Taraxacum species of dandelion for making natural latex since 2011. Native to Kazakhstan, the variety was singled out because it contains more rubber than any other dandelion. Continental made and successfully tested its first dandelion tyre, a Wintercontact TS 850, in the summer of 2014.
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