After three years of research, a local manufacturer in Xishuangbanna prefecture, southwest China’s Yunan Province, has made a major breakthrough in technologies for wet processing of natural rubber mix.
Recently, a 100 million tonne/year white carbon black/natural rubber mix wet processing production line has gone on stream in Manzhuang Rubber Co. Ltd..
The production line is believed to bring high added value and sound economic benefitswhilst being environmental friendly.
For long, manufacturers in Xishuangbanna have basically followed traditional technologies in the processing of primary goods. Such technologies have low technical content, consumes high amount of energy and causes heavy pollution.
Manzhuang Rubber Co. Ltd. worked with authoritative domestic research centers and tire producers from 2012 to 2015, making a key technical breakthrough. The “white carbon/natural rubber mix wet processing” technology has passed the evaluation of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association and been put into sale production.
It is learned that tires made of the rubber mix produced by the new technology can reach the European performance standards for green tires.
Tests showed that the rolling resistance of the tires dropped by 15 percent compared with those made from the traditional technology. Meanwhile, the tires can save energy by 15 to 20 percent.
