On May 14, the National Rubber and Tire Engineering Technology Research Center recently released an important research and development result. They successfully developed a new type of rubber with higher elasticity, stronger grip, and better wear resistance. tire material. The launch of this innovative technology is expected to further promote the upgrading and development of Shandong's rubber tire industry and consolidate the province's leading position in the national rubber tire industry chain.

The research and development of this technology benefits from the joint construction and in-depth cooperation of Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Soft Control and Sailun Group. This cooperation model not only brings together top experts in China's rubber and tire industry, but also achieves collaborative innovation across the entire industry chain through effective integration of resources. The advent of new materials is a model achievement of this cooperation mechanism.

According to the Carbon Black Industry Network, the new technology uses liquid-phase mixing technology, which is a new chemical rubber refining method. It effectively solves the problems of uneven distribution of fillers in rubber and high energy consumption in the traditional physical rubber mixing process by liquid-phase mixing of synthetic rubber solution and filler slurry. The use of this technology has significantly improved the interaction between rubber and fillers, thus achieving innovation in rubber material properties.

Liu Yanhua, chairman of Sailun Group, said that since its establishment, the National Rubber Center has always focused on top-level design and made unremitting efforts in integrating industry resources and attracting outstanding talents. They focus on joint research and development of major common key technologies, and through collaborative innovation across the entire industry chain, they have formed a unique industrial chain innovation and development model.

In addition, in order to ensure the quality traceability of factory products, Sailun Group also equipped each tire with a unique "ID card". The realization of this technology places extremely high requirements on material selection. With the support of resources from the National Rubber Center, Sailun and Soft Control Company jointly developed and developed. After repeated trials, an RFID(Radio Frequency Identification Technology) chip similar to the tire skeleton material was finally selected and implanted into the tire to realize the whole tire life cycle management.

Chen Kezheng, president of Qingdao University of Science and Technology, also emphasized the importance of industry-university-research cooperation. He believed that the seamless connection and collaboration between universities and enterprises is the key to realizing the deep integration of the talent chain, education chain, innovation chain and industrial chain. This cooperation model has created more than 100 billion yuan in value for China's rubber chemical industry, and is expected to inject new vitality into the rubber tire industry chain in Shandong and even the whole country.