Soy – Can Make Longer Lasting Tires???

Surprise? Happy? Stupefied? I know that’s how I felt seeing the headline of one of the articles of autoblog.com entitled “Goodyear turning to soy to make longer lasting tires.”

“Goodyear Tire and Rubber is working on a new technology that can help make its tires less expensive to produce and last longer and it involves something that the U.S. has plenty of – soybeans.”

I thought -- how can soy extend the tread life of a tire? If this is true – people should read this good news. Goodyear researchers have done a good job on this one.

“Goodyear researchers have found that using soybean oil in the manufacturing process can extend the tread life of tires and significantly reduce the amount of petroleum required, "up to seven million gallons each year" for the company as a whole. Adding soy to rubber compounds in tire production, the company says, has proven to improve the mixing process, and creates a better rubber compound. The soy helps the rubber blend easier with the silica, a basic component of ordinary beach sand and an integral tire ingredient.”

"Consumers benefit through improved tread life, Goodyear gains with increased efficiency and energy savings and we all win whenever there is a positive impact on the environment." said Jean-Claude Kihn, Goodyear's chief technical officer, in a statement.”

Goodyear, as we all know is the best tire manufacturer in North America. With this discovery, they are not only adding quality tires to their inventory but they are adding credits to their existing good reputation. A toast for them!!! People will surely benefit from this. One thing to wait though – are they selling this lesser or far more expensive than their regular tires in the market??? One question we sure want to know, right guys?

Well, we have that to look forward to since this will be launched hopefully in 2015 yet.

Article Source:  green.autoblog.com

Author Bio: 

Howard J. Fleischmann Sr. is the owner of Community Tire Pros and Auto Repair...offering complete automotive repair as well as tires phoenix and replacement and service to both domestic and import vehicles.