For much of its history, tyremaking has been a multistage and highly labour intensive industry, involving building up the tyre carcass in layers manually on a drum. Each layer of material is often cut ...

Tyre production consists of six key stages in the manufacturing process: sourcing of materials, production of compounds, manufacturing of components, building the tyre, vulcanisation and, finally, ...

Do you know what the codes on the sides of your tyres mean, what sort of tyres you are riding on and how they are made? Motorcycle industry veteran Dale Schmidtchen takes a look at the construction of ...

Roads buckle under the pressure of the Northern Territory's harsh climate, but a group of researchers think repurposing ...