Tires

Exxcore™ Tire

Tire innovation will play a key role in increasing vehicle fuel economy and reducing vehicle emissions.

Over the next several years, focus areas on improving tire sustainability without sacrificing quality and performance will include:

  • Innerliners with higher halobutyl rubber content
  • Lighter-weight tires using advanced innerliner technologies that increase impermeability and require less hydrocarbon-based materials in the innerliner

ExxonMobil has been at the forefront of technology and innovation in the rubber industry since inventing and patenting butyl rubber in 1937. Our mission to innovate includes not just meeting market trends and improving the sustainability of tires without sacrificing quality and performance, but actually using every opportunity to improve in all these areas.

Most recently, the company has developed Exxcore™ dynamically vulcanized alloy (DVA) resin – a blend of specialty elastomer and nylon – that can be used to produce advanced tire innerliners. Exxcore DVA combines the flexibility and elasticity of rubber with low air permeability, facilitating lighter, more-durable tires that maintain proper air pressure far longer and roll easier than today’s tires. ExxonMobil is also progressing development on nanotechnology in the advancement of innerliner performance.

These latest product innovations will contribute to the fuel economy and emissions reductions that consumers want while increasing vehicle performance.