Bridgestone Awarded DOE Grant to Advance Guayule Research
Guayule is a drought resistant, desert shrub that shows promise as a domestic source of natural rubber for tires.
Bridgestone And Versalis Partnering To Expand Guayule Research Efforts
The two companies also will make the new joint technology available to industrial partners willing to cooperate in maximizing the value of the products.
Cooper Tire And Consortium Partners Complete $6.9M USDA Grant To Study Guayule Polymer For Tire Applications
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., working as the lead entity in the consortium, announced at the meeting that its scientists produced several sets of concept passenger car tires in which all the natural and synthetic rubber is replaced by guayule natural rubber.
PanAridus Becomes First To Patent Guayule Harvesting Technology
The new patent covers the company’s near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) machine, which measures the rubber content in a guayule plant while it is still planted in the ground.
Cooper’s Guayule Tire Could Soon Be Reality
Cooper held its annual meeting with Biomass Research and Development Initiative grant members Aug. 18-19, to discuss progress and tested Cooper CS4 tires built with multiple components made completely out of rubber from guayule, a desert shrub that can be grown in the U.S.
Cooper Tire Begins Testing Tires Made With Guayule Component
Cooper and consortium partners update progress on $6.9 million grant to develop guayule polymer for tire applications.
PanAridus Joins Cooper In Guayule Research
PanAridus will join Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. and its consortium partners on the $6.9 million Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) grant toward development of guayule plant-based polymers for use in tire manufacturing.
Cooper Guayule Efforts Earn U.S. Research Grant
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support the tiremaker’s research efforts on applying guayule-based rubber in tire production.
Bridgestone Planning U.S. Guayule Farm, Research Center
Bridgestone Americas said its parent company is looking for land in the southwestern U.S. to establish a guayule farm and a process research center, which it hopes to have launched by the end of 2012.
Science Fuses with Passion for Bridgestone’s Cara Krstolic
Cara Krstolic, chief engineer for Bridgestone Motorsports, shares how she made her way to making tires for the Indy 500.
