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Bridgestone Outlines Retreading Strategy

Bridgestone aims to address the challenges facing the transportation industry by combining its products, retreading and digital technology-based services, and B-select, a solutions network, to provide four key values: safe operation, environmental impact reduction, cost reduction, and operational efficiency. “We are building a network of bases close to our customers and providing products and services that are tailored to their...

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Bridgestone Offers New Solution Service for Mining

Bridgestone has launched in launched in July a new solution service for mining, which has already found use by resource major BHP at their Pampa Norte Spence mine in Chile. The service proposes optimal tire maintenance timing and driving routes based on tire durability prediction using a proprietary algorithm developed by Bridgestone. Based on the unique algorithm that makes full...

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Bridgestone Ends Tire Production at Thailand’s Rangsit Plant

Bridgestone has terminated tire production at the Rangsit Plant of Thai Bridgestone Corporation (TBSC) as part of the restructuring set forth in its mid-term business plan for 2021-2023. The consolidation of production of passenger car radial tires in Thailand at the Nongkhae Plant was completed at the end of June 2022, and that of truck and bus radial tires at...

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Bridgestone to Launch Road Use Sports Radial Tire for Motorcycles

Bridgestone will in January 2024 release Battlax Hypersport S23, a sports radial tire for general public road use for motorcycles. The product will be available in six sizes; one front size and five rear sizes. The new Battlax is a next-generation sports tire that improves on the performance of the existing Battlax Hypersport S22 in all areas necessary for sports...

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Bridgestone Soft Robot Hand Wins Good Design Award

Soft Robot Hand, developed by Bridgestone’s Softrobotics Ventures, has won the Good Design Award 2023 sponsored by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion. Bridgestone is challenging the soft robotics business, which supports safe and secure movement and motion of people and objects with soft robots that can cooperate with humans, by using rubber artificial muscles (rubber actuators) that use the...

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UTokyo, Bridgestone Research Group Begins Public In-transit Power Supply Experiments

Japan’s first public road test of in-transit power supply for EVs has begun at Kashiwanoha Smart City in Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture. The technology for supplying power to EVs while driving has been studied since 2018 by a joint research group including the Fujimoto-Shimizu Laboratory of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo, Bridgestone, NSK, Rohm,...

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