DUSSELDORF, Germany — Two German automotive suppliers have developed a process for installing sound-absorbing foam into tires that they claim can streamline the heretofore time-consuming and expensive ...

Foam-filled tires are made of regular rubber but replace the air inside with hardened liquid urethane. While they come with benefits like being impervious to flats, they can only be used on ...

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Lorenzo Mondragon, Dragon Tire's president, told Tire Business that tires containing Urethane Technologies' foam have been sent through the retreading process without any problems. ``We've foam filled ...

Goodyear Tire & Rubber patented a pneumatic tire design with multiple layers of open cell noise damping foam strip material attached to the innerliner below the tread portion. The layers are ...

Most mountain bikers wouldn't want shock absorbers that were simply springy air chambers with no damping. According to the guys at CushCore, however, that's exactly what tires are. Their solution? An ...

Puncture-proof tires, either solid or foam-filled, are popular items on rental machines and machines used in hostile environments, such as demolition, landfills, and quarries. Solid tires sometimes ...

New electric and hybrid vehicles bring new challenges for tire manufacturers: because the car itself is so quiet, tire noise is more noticeable. And, with maximizing vehicle range at top of mind, ...

For decades, various manufacturers have dabbled in flat-proof bicycle tires that have a solid or foam-filled core. The problem is, those tires tend to be heavy, plus there's no way of adjusting their ...