China to build first large-scale research centre for aircraft tires

Guangzhou, Guangdong – Guangzhou municipal government is spending Yuan570 million (€69 million) to build China’s first large-scale research center for aircraft tires.
 
The project is currently in the bidding process, from 1-26 Aug, according to local government.
 
This Aircraft Tire Big Science Center will cover 25,000 square-metre total area and house facilities for subjects such as elastic new materials, smart elastane, elastane compounds interface, frontier theories for aircraft tires, tire digital twin and tire dynamics.
 
It will also contain a tire museum, the local government announced.
 
As a debottlenecking project, the center will base its work on existing research for military use by Guangzhou’s Huangpu Advanced Materials Institute, an affiliate of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and transfer the core materials and technology to civil use. 
 
The centre will start operation by the end of 2021 and plans to develop products at a level same as Michelin’s within 10 years.