Soy- Can Make Longer Lasting tire

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Soy Can Make Longer Lasting Tires???
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Surprise? Happy? Stupefied? I know thats 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.
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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, Goodyears
chief technical officer, in a statement. Goodyea
r, 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?
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Well, we have that to look forward to since this
will be launched hopefully in 2015 yet. Article
Source green.autoblog.com Image Source
flashfree Author Bio Howard J. Fleischmann
Sr. is the owner of Community Tire Pros and Auto
Repairoffering complete automotive repair as
well as tires phoenix and replacement and service
to both domestic and import vehicles.