When it comes to tire manufacturing, it pays to keep things rolling—especially during the critical curing process. Unexpected machine failure during this step not only creates unwanted scrap, but it ...

Theophilus Karnaghan Seiberling, 100, a member of a pioneer tire-making family who had a second career as an inventor, died Thursday in Akron, Ohio. At age 82, Seiberling created a tire-curing process ...

While true perfection may only be possible in unearthly realms, Goodyear's IMPACT (short for Integrated Manufacturing, Precision Assembly, Cellular Technology) produces "a perfect tire," according to ...

CLEVELAND—Last year at the Rubber Division exhibition Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH wanted to increase its presence on the bladder market. The leadership in North and South America may have changed, but ...

Butyl rubber has been used for many years in tire curing bladder formulations in combination with phenol formaldehyde resin cure in order to meet the demanding service conditions that the bladder ...

For years it seemed that tire retreading plant chamber fires were an anomaly. Every now and then you'd hear of a retreader whose plant's chamber caught fire and the entire contents of customer tires ...

A fire in August that damaged the curing area of its tire plant in Debica, Poland, likely will cut Akron-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s sales in its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region by ...

Stance is a big part of giving your Chevy the right look, but sometimes we make sacrifices in the process. For our early Chevelle project car we nailed the stance with about 4 inches of total drop up ...