Apollo presents agri tyre with 75% sustainable materials

Apollo Tyres aims for at least 40 per cent of the raw materials it uses by 2030 to be sustainable, and to show what it can already achieve the tyre maker has produced an agricultural tyre containing 75 per cent sustainable materials. Although just a concept, Apollo is evaluating the product’s potential commercialisation.

Reaching the 75 per cent sustainable mark involved utilising nine compounding ingredients in the tyres’ various components. These include recycled rubber, sustainable carbon black from end-of-life tyres, bio-based oil, recycled nylon and the bead wire processed with higher recycled content. The base polymers used for this tyre are GPSNR certified with bio-circular-based feedstock.

Big milestone in sustainability journey

Sharing news of the concept tyres, P K Mohamed, chief advisor of R&D at Apollo Tyres Ltd, said: “This is a big milestone in the sustainability journey of Apollo Tyres. Being the early movers in this space, especially in India, and with investments in R&D and manufacturing towards achieving the 40 per cent sustainable material target by 2030, we have been able to develop this tyre with 75 per cent sustainable materials, which is now being tested extensively before being commercialised.”

Apollo Tyres made this concept agricultural tyre at its original manufacturing facility in Perambra, in India’s Kerala state.