A recipe not as easy as it looks!

Today’s Michelin tires are more high-tech than ever, comprising more than 200 components. These perfectly proportioned ingredients interact to deliver balanced performance in terms of safety, comfort and environmental impact reduction. Michelin is strongly committed to ensuring that, in the future, all tire components are ultimately sustainable. To achieve this, the Group is leveraging its advanced technological maturity in high-tech materials, its own technology incubator, as well as partners with incredibly innovative technologies. Many projects are already underway to produce butadiene from biomass (waste wood, rice husks, corn stover, etc.) to replace butadiene derived from petroleum, to regenerate plastic (PET), recycle polystyrene or recover carbon black from used tires. Michelin has also undertaken to use as little material as possible in its tires without affecting their performance. The aim is to limit the impact of tires on the planet’s resources and improve their rolling resistance, thereby