Bridgestone Corporation

Total Marketing Services

Arescosmo S.p.a.

Franco Cataldo

Shunji Araki

Daisuke Nohara

Masahiro Hojo

Kazuya Hatakeyama

Louis Plancq

Francine Genin

Zubin Arora

The present invention relates to a rubber composition for tire applications comprising: rubber polymer(s) comprising at least optionally-functionalized styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) and at least one rubber selected from polybutadiene rubber (BR), natural rubber (NR), polyisoprene rubber (IR) and mixtures thereof, and at least one ester derived from renewable sources resulting from the esterification of trimer and/or dimer acids having the formula A-(COOH)q, with q being 2 or 3 and A being an acyclic, cyclic or polycyclic, saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched hydrocarbon group having from 3 to 69 carbon atoms, with acyclic or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched alcohols.

Rubber composition comprising esters from renewable sources as plasticizers

Rubber compositions and pneumatic tires in which the rubber compositions are used. In the rubber compositions, per 100 parts by weight of natural rubber and a conjugated diene-base synthetic rubber such as a butadiene-styrene copolymer rubber, is compounded 30 to 120 parts by weight of a carbon black having both a characteristic (concentration of &gt;C.dbd.O functional groups)/N.sub.2 SA.gtoreq.4.0.times.10.sup.-4 and a characteristic (concentration of &gt;C.dbd.O functional groups).gtoreq.(concentration of --OH functional groups).sup.2 -0.1.times.(concentration of --OH functional groups)+0.03, or is compounded 30 to 120 parts by weight of a carbon black having the characteristic (concentration of &gt;C.dbd.O functional groups)/N.sub.2 SA.gtoreq.4.0.times.10.sup.-4 and 0.05 to 5.0 parts by weight of at least one of a silane coupling agent, a hydrazide compound and a thiadiazole compound. The rubber compositions of the present invention and pneumatic tires using the rubber compositions excel in low rolling resistance and wet skid resistance.

Rubber compositions and pneumatic tires using the same

Rubber composition improved in charging property and pneumatic tire

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Rome, Italy

Franco Cataldo