When a driver pulls in the brake to force stop a car, it’s the tires that bring the moving vehicle to a halt. Often neglected, tires form the essential component that actually makes the car robust. Being the constant point of contact between an automobile and the road, it, therefore, becomes necessary to develop the perfect tire. But, how?

HF TireTech Group has the answer. Being the global market leader in machinery and systems for the rubber processing tire industry, the company provides the best solutions related to the development, manufacturing, and distribution of all systems for the development of robust tires. Specialising in the production of car tires, HF TireTech Group focuses on engineering dedicated solutions that can be easily integrated within the vehicle framework and yield reliable, high-performance results.

The HF TireTech Group develops and supplies hot and cold feed extruders and extrusion heads from Simplex to Quintuplex in different configurations as well as complete extrusion lines specifically tailored to the profiles to be produced. Its systems are individually designed and manufactured according to customers’ specific needs. Based on a modular design that is widely acclaimed as a trendsetter in the tire industry, the company’s extrusion aggregates ensures long-term production results.

Under the umbrella of its parent company Harburg- Freudenberger Maschinenbau GmbH, the company provides the rubber and rubber-processing industry with a range of machines for all key stages of production–from raw material processing to rubber processing up to vulcanisation. HR TireTech Group successfully blends its long history of designing and delivery of tire building machines together with the latest German engineering to provide guaranteed OE quality material positioning in the green tire. The operator-friendly designing technique even makes the tires highly modular and considerably reduces the cycle time by up to 20 percent. In that regard, HF ONE the company’s latest innovation addresses the new challenges spinning in the tire and manufacturing markets.

HF One offers high flexibility and quick change-over of different carcass drums without changing the shaft for symmetrical movements =>SW width up to 230 mm (+) and low final shaping distance =>180 mm bead to bead. Not only do these specifications reduce stress due to flat turn-up but also improves C turn-up, optimises efficiency, reduces material and tire weight, and eliminates sidewall crack issues.

A combination of state-of-the-art technology and tried and tested tradition, HF TireTech Group’s stellar extrusion machinery offers true cost savings efficiency throughout the process chain. The company utilises a plethora of components in its extrusion line that includes singled cold feed extruders, co-extrusion heads, line equipment, and others. From simplex extrusion of profiles to the feeding of mills and calanders, HF TireTech Group’s extruders are driven by a variable speed AC motor either with forced air-cooling or water cooling. This makes the extruders a perfect fit to cover different profiles, component specifications, and compound properties needed for the production of tire components.

From the first clarifications regarding clients’ specific needs, through the order process and during manufacturing, installation, and commissioning of their curing presses, HF TireTech Group’s team of sales representatives, engineers, project managers, and service people act as a firm stanchion throughout. With expertise based on more than 4,000 delivered curing presses around the world, the company’s project team review customers’ requirements and finds the right fit for their application from our various hydraulic curing presses, PCI´s for new presses, or for retrofitting on most of the existing presses. HF Curemaster, a new benchmark in truck tire manufacturing, explores the possibility to replace older, smaller presses and ensures even distribution of squeeze force to bring in tire uniformity and longest mold life. “Older generation curing machines have the common controller and two moulds that operate at the same time. Such machines, due to their design, may have deflection while applying pressure. In the HF Curemaster TBR the load to the moulds is very uniform,” says Stefan Bahlke, Lead Engineer, curing presses at HF Tire Tech Group.

Besides, owing to its customisation approaches and modularity, the company even hunts for potential improvements in the existing curing room and suggests modules tailored to address the hydraulic, pneumatic, and heating components of tires. In essence, HF TireTech Group assures the lowest energy consumption, durability, and performance standards of the evolving rubber and tire market demands. Moving ahead, the company seeks to bolster its portfolio with emerging technologies and pave the way into the future of tire manufacturing for its clients.