Photos from Future Tire

This year’s Future Tire Conference, held 27-28 in Cologne, Germany generated some great in-depth, and sometimes intense, discussion on issues around the adoption of advance control & automation technologies in the tire manufacturing industry.

Here are some of the photos from the VMI-sponsored event, which attracted speakers from tire makers Apollo, Bridgestone, Continental, Goodyear and Pirelli as well as from suppliers including: Black Donuts, Cimcorp, HF Mixing, Oracle, Pelmar Engineering, Rockwell, Sick, Siemens and VMI… among others.

> Shibu George, head of automation and electronics, Apollo Tyres

> Jose Silicani, knowledge management officer, Bridgestone Europe;

> Marco Spinetto, strategic innovation, R&D, Pirelli Tyre SpA;

> Dr. Oliver Schramm, director, development production technology, Continental

> David Anckaert, general director, EMEA OE product development, Dunlop Development Center   Hanau, Goodyear Dunlop Tires Germany.

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