Nominees for Tire Technology awards announced

The shortlisted nominations for this year’s Tire Technology International Awards for Innovation and Excellence have been published, and the contenders for honours in 2018 include a number of companies whose technological developments we’ve been following. Winners will be decided by a 30-strong panel of experts from the tyre industry and academia and announced during the Expo at a Gala Dinner on the evening of 21 February.

The shortlist in full:

Tire Manufacturing Innovation of the Year

Bartell – Automatic Truck Bead Apex System
Eastman – Crystex Cure Pro
Ferm – RFID mold solution
Versalis – BDSPs (butadiene di-block stereoregular polymers)

Environmental Achievement of the Year

Apollo Tyres/RRI – Epoxide natural rubber
Goodyear – Soybean oil initiative
JK Tyre & Industries Ltd
PPG/US DOE – Treated silica/NR truck-tire compound

Tire Technology of the Year

MegaRide – thermoRIDE / adheRIDE modeling tools
Nokian – Functional stud concept
NTRC – Asphaltant
Trelleborg – PneuTrac off/on highway tire
Yokohama – Informatics-based design

Tire Industry Supplier of the Year

Bartell Machinery Systems
Black Donuts Engineering
Cabot Corporation
Smithers Rapra

Tire Manufacturer of the Year

Apollo Tyres
Goodyear
Hankook
Pirelli

In addition, the 2018 Young Scientist Prize and Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented at the gala dinner. These two prizes are subject to separate judging processes.