Hankook Tire recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Arlanxeo (a world-renowned rubber manufacturer for tires) to jointly develop synthetic rubber technology for high-performance tire products.
Under this agreement, the two companies will jointly study the development of new high-performance synthetic rubber grades and applications, which will improve tire performance from the early stages of product development.
The collaboration between the two is aimed at accelerating the South Korean tire manufacturer to further improve its technological prowess beyond its competitors. In the future, this collaboration will really help Hankook Tire’s research and development (R&D).
Hankook and Arlanxeo Activate Research on Synthetic Rubber for Tires
“Continuous R&D efforts and investments have been made to further solidify Hankook Tire’s position. “The strong relationship with Arkanxeo is brilliant, and will continue to produce extraordinary technological advances between the two companies,” wrote Hankook Tire CTO, Hyung Nam Kim, in his official statement.
This collaboration between Hankook Tire and Arlanxeo is not the first time. Previously, they entered into a cooperation agreement in 2008 to discuss the supply of raw materials such as styrene butadiene rubber (S-SBR) solution and neodymium performance butadiene rubber (Nd-PBR).
Then the collaboration continued in 2014 to expand existing cooperation. They began collaborating on the development of core synthetic rubber solutions for high-performance tires.
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