Tire Applications

Helping Tires Roll Through Manufacturing Easier

Milliken offers ready-to-use tire reinforcements that reduce tire weight and rolling resistance while also delivering production efficiencies in the tire plant. Milliken is also a one-stop shop for process liners. With manufacturing, sales and technical support for the tire industry in Europe, Asia and North America, Milliken supports our customers globally. Our expertise in textile engineering, as well as adhesion and tackifier chemistries enables us to meet your specific requirements for building tack, rubber adhesion and tire performance.

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Features & Benefits

Reinforcements ready-to-use at tire building
Liners for outstanding durability, crease resistance and release

Advanced Reinforcement
Composite Material
Eco-Friendly
Engineered Performance Products
Flexible
Light-Weight
Mechanical Rubber Good (MRG)

Products

Milliken is a one-stop shop for liners that address your key requirements: clean & easy release, resistance to wrinkles & creases, durability for long service life, low maintenance, and low total cost in use. Because liner performance is application specific, our product portfolio is the broadest in the marketplace, to fit the diversity of your processes and rubber stocks.

Super-stiff liners with spacers attached to prevent crushing of profiled rubber parts; able to process heavy compounds without wrinkling. Field-tested extended service life. Learn More

Milliken makes tire manufacturing faster, easier and less material-intensive. With our turn-up bladder fabrics, tire manufacturers can extend the life of their bladders to as many as 30,000 cycles, resulting in less downtime for bladder change and the use of fewer bladders per year, saving both time and materials. Learn More

Milliken’s ready-to-use tire reinforcements can reduce tire weight and rolling resistance while also delivering production efficiencies in the tire plant. MilliCap® cap ply strips and tapes, bias chafer, and tacky bead wrap arrive at the tire plant pre-oriented, RFL treated, tackified, slit, and ready to use. Tire plant mixing, calendering, cutting, splicing, and the associated waste streams are avoided. Milliken applies tackifier chemistries without organic solvents, for environmental benefits.

Ready-to-use MilliCap™ cap ply strips that can reduce rolling resistance and the amount of rubber, energy, and preparation needed to produce a tire. Learn More

Chafer strips with pre-oriented bias fabric construction for conformability; treated, tackified and precision slit; lighter weight than many traditional chafers. Learn More

Regular-tack and high-tack bead wrap strips treated with advanced aqueous tackifier chemistries for performance and environmental benefits. Learn More