Bringing your newest material innovation to market in the tire industry can be a long process with many validation steps. One of the most critical steps is producing a final development tire that could be tested in laboratory or on-vehicle conditions. From initial compound development to mixing and eventually validating tire performance, the experts at Smithers can facilitate the full process.
From sustainable carbon black to new antidegradants to a wide range of tire additives, our tire compounding expertise can help your team innovate faster and with more confidence. Reach out today to discuss your project requirements and get started.
- Mixing and Compound Development: We can work with your team to develop an optimized formulation for both processing and applicability to the targeted tire component. For tread compounds and sidewalls, our material scientists and internal small-batch mixing capabilities combine to provide you with the tools needed to benchmark various formulations.
- Physical properties testing: Once candidate compounds have been mixed, we can put them through a battery of industry-relevant ASTM test methods to understand physical or environmental property performance.
- Larger Quantity Mixing and Development Tire Builds: Through external partners, Smithers experts can facilitate larger quantity mixes and incorporate those into short runs of developmental tires that could be used in laboratory or on-vehicle testing.
- Laboratory Tire Testing: Depending on your specific raw material or performance requirements, Smithers can develop a testing program to evaluate tire performance on a wide variety of indoor testing machines. From rolling resistance to force and moment to high-speed uniformity and more, your development tires can be properly evaluated.
- Proving Ground Testing: Operating two proving grounds in both winter environments as well as year-round, warm weather, Smithers can support a number of on-vehicle performance requirements. From dry to wet to snow and ice, our proving grounds provide the surfaces, testing expertise, and conditions to validate your newest development.
- Industry Matchmaking: Once your data has been generated, Smithers tire experts can support technology discussions with tire companies as needed.
Our services can support the following tire types:
From sustainable carbon black to new antidegradants to a wide range of tire additives, our tire compounding expertise can help your team innovate faster and with more confidence. Reach out today to discuss your project requirements and get started.
