Centralizing sustainable materials and stakeholder mapping for circular economy
04 Mar 2026
New York 1
Building a sustainable tire industry – advances and initiatives - session 2
The tire industry supply chain shifts gears toward bio-based, biomass balance or recycled raw materials to meet its sustainability goals. That supply chain is changing rapidly with new material developments and innovative startups that have to become used to the tire industry's high quality expectation, long-term contracts and long acceptance procedures. Tire manufactures on their side often have multiple sustainable material engineers in charge of scavenging the market for the next best sustainable material to lower the carbon footprint. Circular Rubber Platform's community of material scientists maps innovative materials and supply chain stakeholders to collectively accelerate sustainable material incorporation.
- Bio-based raw materials and their suppliers
- Recycled raw materials and their suppliers
- Rubber recycling technology in theory and what it means for material quality
- Where sustainable raw materials fit in the rubber supply chain
- How the community found 200+ substitution materials in less than two years
