Mumbai, March 15 -- In this third part of the interview to Tyre Asia (the second part appeared in the December 2018-January 2019 issue), Bireswar Banerjee, who edited Rubber Nanocomposites and Nanotextiles in Automobiles published by Smithers Rapra Technology, dwells on the innovations taking place in elastomers that are used in rubber compounds in tyre retreading. This industrial consultant and rubber technologist holds several patents and has published many research papers. He has also edited the book Tyre Retreading dealing with different elastomers used in the rubber compounds in the manufacture of various types of tyre retreading process
The general purpose synthetic rubber solution SBR with reduced long chain is used widely in automo...