CLEVELAND, Ohio – A primary ingredient in tires is butadiene, a chemical compound derived from fossil fuels. But if Bridgestone Americas is successful with a pilot project, the company will make ...

The tire maker expects to reap $650 million in gross proceeds from selling most of its chemical arm, achieving a key target ...

TOBOLSK, December 10. /TASS/. Sibur, in collaboration with tire makers, is in end-stage tests on tires made of synthetic rubber, which could potentially replace natural rubber on the market very soon, ...

MILAN, Italy — Bridgestone Corp. and Versalis A.G., an Italian materials supplier, have joined forces to co-develop synthetic rubber with advanced properties for high-performance tires. The companies ...

Enzymes are capable of degrading synthetic polyisoprene. The specific conditions for that have now been created and exploited. Polyisoprene is the principal component of natural rubber and of many ...

If you watched the 2022 Indy Car Music City Grand Prix, you might have noticed—between the multitude of crashes, that is—cars running Firestone tires with green stripes. The green denotes the use of ...

One of the great races in U.S. industrial history ended last week. Both Firestone Tire and U.S. Rubber began to turn out synthetic rubber—the first produced under the Government’s original ...

TOKYO — Bridgestone Corp. has struck a deal to sell its ownership stake in Bridgestone (Huizhou) Synthetic Rubber Co. Ltd. (BSRC) to LCY Chemical Corp., a Taiwan-based company active in polymers, ...