MOSCOW (MRC) -- Versalis has signed a joint technology agreement with Ecombine and EVE Rubber Institute, subsidiary and affiliate companies of Chinese rubber and tire machinery company Mesnac, to develop an innovative technology for high performance "green" tires, as per GV.
Versalis’ expertise in synthetic rubbers will play a key role in attaining a breakthrough generation of tires, based on its solution styrene butadiene rubber and butadiene rubber technologies.
The partnership aims to integrate Versalis’ elastomers technologies with EVE’s Advanced Technology for Compound Manufacturing, described as an innovative technology for the production of advanced elastomer compounds designed for the tire market.
The combination of Versalis and EVE’s technologies is expected to result in a joint technology platform that will offer the tire industry an unrivalled array of new materials with enhanced mechanical performances and environment-friendly features. Versalis and EVE will jointly license the new technology.
As MRC informed before, Eni will invest EUR125 million in its Versalis plant in Mantua to under the Group 2014-2017 four-year strategic plan. Versalis is an environmentally and economically sustainable plant which links the industrial areas in Porto Marghera, Ferrara and Ravenna via a pipeline. The planned investment will be used to optimise the plants industrial processes and produce further energy savings. Funds will also be used to expand the Group’s research and development into innovative products and technologies.
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