tire manufacturing
Making wheel covers
Tire manufacturing is the industrial process of producing rubber tires for vehicles, machinery, and equipment.
The process involves combining natural and synthetic rubber with chemicals, fabric, and steel, then shaping and vulcanizing (heat-curing) the materials into finished tires.
The plant employs two thousand workers in tire manufacturing.
- vulcanizationChemically strengthening raw rubber
- synthetic rubberMan-made flexible polymer
- curingRestoring health or preserving
- retreadingRenewing tire surfaces
- extrusionPushing through a die
sustainable materials · molding · steel belts · silica · natural rubber · sulfur · cross-linking · carbon black · bicycle tires · Goodyear · calendaring · antioxidants · elastomer · mixing · rubber · sidewall · tread pattern · radial tires
- heavy industrysteel mills, steel production, steel industry, steelmaking, smelters
- industryfactories, factory, automotive, aerospace, logistics
- industrial commoditiesnatural rubber, synthetic rubber, tin, commodity exchange, tin mining