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    The tyre manufacturing process involves 5 main steps: 1) sourcing materials like rubber, steel, and textiles, 2) manufacturing components like steel cords, tread, and sidewalls, 3) building the green tyre by assembling these components, 4) vulcanizing the green tyre in a curing press to set its shape and properties, and 5) quality control checks through inspection and testing. Raw materials are mixed, molded, and cured to produce a finished tire through these stages.

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    The tyre manufacturing process involves 5 main steps: 1) sourcing materials like rubber, steel, and textiles, 2) manufacturing components like steel cords, tread, and sidewalls, 3) building the green tyre by assembling these components, 4) vulcanizing the green tyre in a curing press to set its shape and properties, and 5) quality control checks through inspection and testing. Raw materials are mixed, molded, and cured to produce a finished tire through these stages.

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    The tyre manufacturing process involves 5 main steps: 1) sourcing materials like rubber, steel, and textiles, 2) manufacturing components like steel cords, tread, and sidewalls, 3) building the green tyre by assembling these components, 4) vulcanizing the green tyre in a curing press to set its shape and properties, and 5) quality control checks through inspection and testing. Raw materials are mixed, molded, and cured to produce a finished tire through these stages.

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    Tyre Manufacturing Process

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    The tyre manufacturing process involves 5 main steps: 1) sourcing materials like rubber, steel, and textiles, 2) manufacturing components like steel cords, tread, and sidewalls, 3) building the green tyre by assembling these components, 4) vulcanizing the green tyre in a curing press to set its shape and properties, and 5) quality control checks through inspection and testing. Raw materials are mixed, molded, and cured to produce a finished tire through these stages.

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    The key takeaways are that tyre manufacturing involves sourcing materials, manufacturing components, building the green tyre, vulcanizing the tyre, and performing quality checks. The main materials used are steel, chemicals, natural rubber and textiles. The process involves blending rubbers, milling components, assembling the green tyre, curing it in a press, and inspecting the final product.

    The main steps involved are: 1) sourcing materials, 2) manufacturing components like steel cords, tread and textile cords, 3) building the green tyre by assembling these components, 4) vulcanizing the tyre in a press, and 5) performing quality checks on the finished tyre.

    Steel cords are high strength steel wires or threads that provide structure and strength to the tyre. They are made by embedding pre-treated steel cord in rubber using a calendar machine and cutting the rubber-coated cord to the required lengths.

    SPARKLINE TYRE MANUFACTURING PROCESS

    Amit Kulkarni
    Tyre Manufacturing Process

    Tyre manufacturing involves below steps:

    1. Materials Sourcing
    2. Manufacturing of components
    3. Building the tyre
    4. Vulcanisation
    5. QC
    Step 1: Materials Sourcing:

    STEEL Chemicals Natural Textiles


    Rubber

    Steel:

    The steel industry supplies high strength steel. This serves as the starting material for the
    manufacture of steel belts (steel cord) and of bead cores (steel wire).

    Chemicals:

    Synthetic rubber and materials used to reduce wear, increase grip, and extend the life of a tyre.

    Natural Rubber:

    Rubber is extracted from natural rubber plantations. The latex (milky fluid) that flows out from tree
    coagulates (becomes solid or semi solid) when acid is added to it. It is then cleaned with water and
    pressed into bales for easier transportation and storage.

    Bales of natural and synthetic rubber are sectioned, cut into portions, weighed, and mixed with
    other ingredients according to precise recipes. Up to twelve different rubber compounds are used in
    modern passenger car tyres.

    Textiles:

    It supplies base materials such as rayon, nylon, polyester and aramid fibres for the manufacturing of
    cords which in turn serves as the reinforcement of the tyres.
    Step 2: Manufacturing of Components:

    Steel Cord:
    Pre-treated steel cord supplied on wire spools is fed into a calendar, where it is embedded in one or
    more layers of rubber. The result is a continuous sheet of cord and rubber. This is cut at a defined
    angle to the correct length according to tyre size and rolled up for further processing.

    Tread:
    Kneadable rubber material that has been blended in a mixer is now ready to be made into the tread.
    A screw-type extruder shapes the rubber into an endless strip of tread. After extrusion, the weight
    per meter is checked and the tread cooled by immersion. The tread strip is cut to length for the tyre
    size. Another unit weight control is then carried out.

    Textile cord:
    A multitude of textile threads are fed into the calendar by a large roller device and embedded in a
    thin layer of rubber. This endless sheet is then cut to the desired width at a 90° angle to the direction
    of travel and rewound for further processing.

    Steel bead:
    The core of the bead is made up of many ring-shaped steel wires. Each of them has its own rubber
    coating. This loop is then fitted with a rubber apex.

    Sidewall:
    Sidewall sections cut to suit the particular tyre size are turned out with the extruder.

    Inner Liner:
    A calendar forms the airtight inner liner into a wide, thin layer.
    Stage 3: Building the tyre:

    Blending: Up to 30 different kinds of rubbers, fillers and other ingredients are used to make tyres
    rubber. These are mixed in giant blenders to create a black gummy compound that is further sent for
    milling.

    Milling: The cooled rubber is cut into required strips that form basic tyre structure.

    The various semi-finished products come together on the tyre building machine and are assembled
    into what is known as a “green tyre.” This is done in two stages: the casing, and the tread/belt
    assembly. This “green tyre” is then sprayed with a special fluid to prepare it for vulcanization.
    Stage 4: Vulcanisation:

    Now the green tyre is put into curing press where it receives its final shape after being vulcanised for
    a certain length of time at a certain pressure and temperature.

    The raw rubber becomes flexible, elastic rubber. Curing press moulds are engraved with the tread
    pattern and sidewall markings.

    Stage 5: QC:
    It involves visual inspection, X-Raying (for checking potential internal weaknesses or failures) and
    various tyre uniformity checks.

    Sources:

    1. Michelin Tyres
    2. Continental Tyres
    3. Dunlop Tyres
    4. Maxxis Tyres

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