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Global Tire Industry Pushes For Sustainable Rubber Supply

December 10, 2018December 5, 2018 by Alyssa Danigelis

Faced with a global demand for natural rubber that is rapidly outstripping supply, tire industry stakeholders are pushing to improve sustainable rubber yields, harmonize standards, protect human rights and natural resources — all while improving transparency and traceability in a complex supply chain.

Goodyear Improves Tire Efficiency with PPG Silica

May 26, 2015May 22, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Goodyear Tire & Rubber has contracted with PPG Industries to use Agilon performance silica to increase the fuel efficiency of its tires. Goodyear will first use the next-generation reinforcing filler developed by PPG in its EfficientGrip tires, a line of high-performance sport-utility-vehicle tires debuting in Latin America this month. Goodyear ... Read more »

Ford, Goodyear, FTS Technologies Win Sustainability Innovation Awards

October 24, 2014October 23, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Ford, Goodyear and FTS Technologies received awards from the Suppliers Partnership for the Environment on Tuesday at the organization’s second annual Sustainable Innovation Awards ceremony in Rochester, Michigan. The Suppliers Partnership for the Environment is a partnership between automakers, their suppliers and the EPA. The awards program recognizes Supplier Partnership ... Read more »

Green Fleet Roundup: Linde, Goodyear, VW, Toyota, Frito-Lay

October 15, 2014October 14, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Linde is completing the first retail hydrogen fueling station it will operate in the US. The station, which is expected to be online before the end of the year, is being installed at the Ramos Oil multi-fuel station in West Sacramento, California. Goodyear has introduced the most fuel-efficient long haul drive ... Read more »

Goodyear Converts Rice Husk Waste to Fuel-Efficient Tire Treads

September 23, 2014September 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is using rice husk waste to produce fuel-efficient tires. Goodyear says it will utilize ash left over from the burning of rice husks to produce electricity as an environmentally friendly source of silica for use in its tires. The company has tested silica derived from ... Read more »

Water District Reaches Milestone

March 26, 2014March 26, 2014 by Bill Opalka

Drought-stricken California is also the home of a wastewater recycling plant that reached a significant milestone. The West Basin Municipal Water District passed 150 billion gallons of total recycled water production at its Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility in El Segundo. The district said that amount of water would ... Read more »

Environmental Executive Moves: Ecotech Institute, Delos, ENPAR Technologies

November 21, 2013 by Leon Walker

Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Ecotech Institute: The sustainability-focused school has named David Needham as its new president. Needham (pictured) joins Ecotech Institute from Somersetstreet, a company he founded in 2008. Delos: The real estate developer has appointed environmental sustainability expert Michelle Moore as a strategic advisor. Most recently, Moore served ... Read more »

LEED Lessons: Sustainable Purchasing Platform

May 28, 2013June 30, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Executives from Office Depot, certification and consulting company DEKRA, World Resources Institute, Goodyear Tire & Rubber and others are leading a sustainable purchasing organization — slated to launch this summer — that aims to leverage the trillions of dollars spent by large organizations to drive environmental, economic and social sustainability. ... Read more »

Bridgestone, Yulex Launch Separate Biorubber Projects

May 10, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Bridgestone Americas and agricultural-based biomaterials company Yulex have both announced projects to investigate the use of the shrub guayule as an alternative natural rubber source. Bridgestone will hold a groundbreaking ceremony next week for its Biorubber Process Research Center in Mesa, Ariz., which aims to develop a sustainable source of ... Read more »

NASCAR Partners with Liberty Tire Recycling

April 12, 2013April 15, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

NASCAR has designated Liberty Tire Recycling as the official tire recycler of NASCAR Green, a month-long, industry wide effort to reduce the sport’s carbon footprint. Liberty Tire Recycling, which recycles more than 140 million tires annually, reclaiming about 1.5 billion pounds of rubber for new products, joins other official NASCAR ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: SmartWay, UL Refrigeration, Superior Energy Performance

December 18, 2012June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

Three Goodyear Commercial Tire Systems’ truck tire retread products – the G316 AT Fuel Max, the G572 LHD Fuel Max and the G305 ATS Fuel Max – have achieved verification under the EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership program. The EPA guidelines for low rolling resistance require a fuel consumption reduction of at least ... Read more »

Santander Brasil, Wipro, Bradesco, IBM Lead Global Green Rankings

October 22, 2012October 22, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Santander Brasil, Indian IT firm Wipro, Brazilian financial company Bradesco and US-based IBM topped this year’s Newsweek Green Rankings for global companies, while Singapore food company Wilmar, Coal India and agribusiness giant Monsanto took the bottom spots in the annual environmental ranking of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in ... Read more »

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