New Silica Benchmark, Solvay Efficium® for Tire Productivity and Performance

The use of Highly Dispersible Silica (HDS) in tire treads is continuously increasing worldwide. At the same time, tire makers are expressing the need to improve the processing of compounding with silica.

Of course, improving tire performance remains a must.

Solvay is launching a breakthrough HDS that offers benefits in both processing and performance. These benefits are demonstrated in the passenger car and truck tire segments. Efficium® brings better productivity and flexibility in mixing, in extrusion, and for compound handling and green compound storage. As to performance, Efficium® matches the market benchmark and promotes further improvement through new compound implementation.