Tag: Versalis
Bridgestone and Versalis form strategic partnership
Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) and Versalis are forming a strategic partnership to develop and deploy “a comprehensive technology package to commercialize guayule in the agricultural, sustainable-rubber and renewable-chemical sectors.”
Versalis, Genomatica win TTI Award for renewable butadiene JV
Versalis, a European producer in the polymers and elastomers industry, and bioengineering firm Genomatica’s joint venture project to create renewable butadiene has been presented with Tire Technology International’s Environmental Achievement of the Year award. The companies embarked on the long-term project to address concerns around potential butadiene shortages and price increases. In a demonstration run in 2016, several kilograms of renewable butadiene were prepared starting from commercial sugars, with polymerisation tests showing no differences between the polybutadiene prepared from fossil or renewable feedstock.
Pirelli tests guayule rubber UHP tyres
Tests of Pirelli ultra high performance tyres containing natural rubber sourced from guayule plants have taken place at the Circuito di Balocco track in Italy and at Pirelli’s own circuit in Vizzola, near Milan. The manufacturer says that extreme usage simulations showed comparable performance between these tyres and equivalent tyres produced using oil-derived synthetic polymers.
Michelin a double winner at TTI Awards
The winners of this year’s Tire Technology International Awards for Innovation and Excellence were announced yesterday at a ceremony in Cologne, Germany, and Michelin has come out on top in two of the five awards categories.