Lanxess sees growing demand for green tyres

Ethan Sigler, marketing manager for butyl rubber and performance butadiene rubber in India and Southeast Asia, said yesterday that the German company, the world’s leading manufacturer of butyl rubber for making tyres, had secured contracts to supply Nd-PBR to some tyre makers in this region.
Environmentally friendly tyres can help reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions.
The customers market the green tyres domestically and to countries outside the region, particularly in the European Union, which will implement a standardised label to categorise tyres according to fuel consumption, wet grip and rolling noise.
Thailand has many tyre makers that are now exporting to the euro zone.
Japan and South Korea have been producing green tyres voluntarily since last year. Korea will adopt a regulation to use environmentally friendly tyres this year.
Lanxess has set up its largest Nd-PBR plant on Singapore’s Jurong Island. The