State honour recognises firm’s “green intelligent manufacturing” applied sciences, growth platforms
Hangzhou, China — ZC Rubber has acquired the ‘second prize’ of China’s State Science and Technology Progress Award for a challenge combining high-performance tire growth with “green intelligent manufacturing.”
The award, collectively acquired with Harbin Institute of Technology, recognises ZC’s challenge “key technologies and green intelligent manufacturing of high-performance tires”, which the corporate mentioned has moved past laboratory analysis into industrial manufacturing.
The award highlights the corporate’s proprietary “X-Tech System” for truck and bus radial tires and “Phecda Tech System” for passenger automotive tires, mentioned ZC Rubber 13 July.
The expertise platforms, it famous, “integrate compound formulation, tire structure design, process engineering, simulation, testing and intelligent manufacturing within a unified development framework.”
Rather than adapting present merchandise, the techniques use what the corporate describes as a “forward-development approach.”
This entails defining efficiency targets in accordance with car functions, working situations and buyer necessities earlier than growing the tire structure and manufacturing course of.
“Our objective is not simply to develop an individual material, tread pattern or manufacturing process,” mentioned Henry Shen, senior vice chairman of ZC Rubber.
“X-Tech and Phecda are complete development systems that connect user requirements with simulation, materials, tire engineering, manufacturing and validation.”
The platforms are designed to allow “market-specific” tire growth, permitting merchandise to be tailor-made to totally different climates, street situations and working necessities.
“International markets do not have identical requirements,” Shen added.
“A tire developed for European highway fleets, Southeast Asian transport operations or passenger vehicles in the Americas must respond to different vehicles, roads, climates and customer priorities.”
The expertise platforms, he added, enable ZC Rubber to deal with these variations by “a consistent and systematic development process.”
According to the corporate, X-Tech underpins merchandise together with the X-Elite truck tire vary for Asia and the Westlake Gen II business tire line for Europe.
Phecda helps passenger automotive merchandise together with the Westlake ZuperAce Z-007 and Goodride Solmax 1.
Both platforms have additionally been utilized throughout Arisun truck and passenger tires for the Americas.
Beyond product growth, the award additionally recognises manufacturing applied sciences geared toward enhancing manufacturing consistency, manufacturing effectivity and power efficiency, ZC Rubber mentioned.
ZC Rubber mentioned it invested RMB1.54 billion (€200 million) in analysis and growth in 2025, equal to three.43% of annual income.
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