A Brief explain on How tyres are made

The manufacturing process:

Blend

In this process up to 30 different kinds of rubber, fillers and other ingredients and chemical are added, These ingredients are mixed together in giant blenders to create a black, sticky compound that will be sent on to the other process called milling.

Mill

Here the rubber is cooled and the cooled rubber is cut into strips that will form the basic structure of the tyre itself. At the milling stage, other components of the tyre are prepared, some of which are then coated in another type of rubber and then this rubbers are sent to another process called the build.

Build

Here the rubber is ready to be moulded into tyre – from the inside out. The textile elements, steel belts, beads, ply, tread, and other components are placed in a tyre-building machine. The result is a ‘green tyre’ – a tyre that is beginning to look finished.

Cure

The green tyre is sent to the cure to be vulcanised with hot moulds in a curing machine, compressing all of the parts of the tyre together and giving the tyre its final shape, including its tread pattern and manufacturer’s sidewall markings.

Inspect

Here Trained inspectors using special machinery will now carefully check each tyre for the slightest blemish or imperfection before it can be shipped for sale.

Also a selection of tyres is pulled from the line for x-raying to check for potential internal weaknesses or failures. Also quality control engineers also randomly select tyres off the line and cut them open to ensure they meet standards.