Toyo presents 90% sustainable material concept tyre

Toyo Tires has presented a sustainable concept tyre which it claims is comprised of 90 per cent sustainable materials.

Prior to this, the highest ever usage rate of sustainable materials in one of its tyres was 50 per cent – the
Open Country tyres used in the 2024 Dakar Rally.

Sustainable materials can be broadly divided into “renewable materials” that can be recycled, such as naturally derived materials, and “recycled materials” that are reused from materials that have already been used in some way.

According to Toyo Tire, this concept tyre uses renewable materials such as biomass-derived butadiene rubber, biomass-derived styrene-butadiene rubber, rice husk ash silica, plant-derived oil, and bio-derived polyester fibre (approximately 60% of the total), and recycled materials.

The Japanese tyre maker also used CO2-derived butadiene rubber, which it says was successfully developed jointly with Toyama University in Japan, as well as recovered carbon black, recycled bead wire, and recycled steel cord (approximately 30% of the total).

Toyo further states that its goal is to achieve a “usage rate of 40 per cent in 2030 and 100 per cent in 2050”, and that this concept tyre is a development product that “serves as a stepping stone to that goal”.