Tempi di ciclo più brevi, maggiore pressione sui costi, accompagnati da nuove disposizioni in materia di ambiente e sicurezza: le condizioni di struttura del settore stanno diventando più complesse anno dopo anno. I nostri nuovi pneumatici pieni sono emersi come risposta a questi.
I nostri ingegneri si sono concentrati su due fattori cruciali durante il loro sviluppo: una vita utile ancora una volta estesa con una resistenza al rotolamento simultaneamente inferiore. Sono riusciti a combinare questi due requisiti senza compromessi in un'unica tecnologia di pneumatici. Ciò è stato reso possibile dal nuovo composto Plus Compound, che si basa su una selezione di materie prime di alta qualità e un complesso processo di finitura.
- Più chilometri grazie alla nuova mescola Plus
- La silice funge da crack stopper e rende il composto ancora più resistente
- Il minor sviluppo di calore nel pneumatico aumenta l'efficienza energetica
I nuovi pneumatici pieni Continental consentono una maggiore percorrenza*, sono straordinariamente robusti e allo stesso tempo estremamente efficienti dal punto di vista energetico.
Mescola Plus
The utilized rubber compound is the critical quality factor especially for solid tires. The goal of our new development was to generate a polymer-matrix with as many shortchained sulfur connections as possible. The sulfur serves as adhesive between polymer chains and makes the rubber elastic on one side and robust on the other. In this matrix, additionally stabilizing firm components are embedded to reduce wear as well as silica to stop cracks. The result is an even more durable and cut-resistant rubber compound. At the same time, the stability of this rubber mixture ensures that the tires crack less, minimizing the interior temperature build-up and the connected rolling resistance.
The main component of our rubber compound continues to be natural rubber. For it alone exhibits a wealth of crucial properties that no synthetic product can offer. As is the case with all natural products, the quality of natural rubber is subject to fluctuations, which are influenced by factors such as climate conditions, cultivation and harvest, as well as the processing techniques. Thanks to our decades of experience, our close contact to suppliers of raw materials and our large procurement volume, we are in a position to access the best materials the world market has to offer.
Vulcanization, the process, by which means the mixture of raw materials transforms into finished tires, is highly complex. Even in a tire prior to vulcanization that weighs several hundred kilos, minor temperature fluctuations during the processing can have a negative impact on the final product’s quality.
That is why we tailored our vulcanization process specifically to the requirements of solid tires. In addition to the targeted mixing of raw materials and precise temperature management throughout the entire production, this also includes the article-specific heating times, which positively affect the rolling resistance of the finished tire.
This system alone allows a product to be manufactured that meets our quality requirements.