Bridgestone pioneers new retreading technology

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Bridgestone Corporation has announced a new technology, called Trisaver, which it believes will result in significantly enhanced fuel efficiency as well as reducing its own environmental impact.
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The name, Trisaver, makes reference to the three areas that it aims to provide savings in; cost, resources and CO2 emissions. The technology has been in development since Bridgestone’s acquisition of Bandag in 2007 and forms part of Bridgestone's commitment to using 100% sustainable materials and a 50% reduction of CO2 emissions by 2050.
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While new tires are manufactured by vulcanizing all the materials at once, retread tire manufacturing bonds together a separate and previously vulcanized casing (the original body of the tire that remains once its initial tread life has been used) and the tread (the rubber component of the tire that makes contact with the road). Focusing on this basic difference in manufacturing methods, Bridgestone has discovered that overall performance of the tire can be improved by manufacturing the casing and tread through a process that is optimal for each component.
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Bridgestone's Trisaver technology uses this innovative manufacturing method, as well as a revolutionary new compound in both the casing and the tread. This new technology greatly reduces rolling resistance compared to conventional tires, and at the same time enhances durability, thereby potentially increasing the number of times the tire can be retreaded.

The company plans to market this technology in the near future, as a result, Bridgestone is now entering the process of conducting road trials and analyzing product marketability.