• Global outlook for tire sustainability
• Drivers impacting the global tire industry
• Key topics to be addressed to tire sustainability
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Graduated from Tsinghua University, Automotive Engineering department. 31 years in automotive and components industry and over 19 years technical standards, regulations and product certification work experience. Since 2013, served Continental tire company as director of APAC Standards & Regulations.
Byeongho Seo (Aiden) is the project leader in sustainable material development at Hankooktire.
He has been working in the tire industry since 2005. He received a Ph.D. focused on the improvement of silica dispersion for tire tread compounds and joined Hankook R&D Center in 2014.
He specializes in developing advanced materials for special tires such as self-sealing and silent tires and takes responsibility for advancing sustainable materials to achieve sustainability goals.
Li Lun, Senior Director of Chassis Development Department of FAW R&D Institute of China, Deputy Director of Youth Working Committee of China Society of Automotive Engineering, and a special reviewer of China Automobile Magazine. He has 16 years of experience in independent development and testing of chassis systems. Focusing on the development and testing technology of intelligent chassis system (including intelligent tires), he has presided over a number of FAW National Key Laboratory Open Fund projects and FAW key scientific and technological research projects in the past five years. He has won the first prize of China Productivity Promotion Award and the first prize of Jilin Science and Technology Progress Award.
Dr. Xu Ting, Head of the Intelligent New NPT R&D Team, Ji Hua Laboratory
General Manager of Smithers (Suzhou) Bachelor degree of Measurement & Control Technology and Instrument, Master degree of Business Administration. Henry has been working in tire & wheel testing industry as test Engineer, Lead Test engineer & Lead quality system. Main responsibility of Henry is Tire & wheel testing, data analysis, test method development, company operations & management.
Adam McCarthy is the Secretary General of the European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) where he is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of the organisation. Adam has spent his career in government affair and public policy at the European and Global levels. He holds a PhD in European Politics and is a duel Belgian/British national.
Liu Zhengguo, Senior Engineer, is currently responsible for the chassis components business at the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) Component Company. He holds a master's degree from Dalian University of Technology and has extensive experience in the evaluation and research of key technologies in automotive chassis systems and components. Since 2016, he has led a team in researching tire and brake wear particle emissions performance, keeping pace with international regulations such as UN/WP.29 GRPE PMP/GRBP TFTA/ISO. He has conducted extensive research and established in-depth collaborations with domestic and international universities, enterprises, and research institutions on tire and brake system wear particle emissions performance based on Chinese driving conditions.
I have been working in Ralson India limited for more than two years under the guidance of Dr. S. Kumar on projects related to NCD (New compound development).Currently, I am working on projects mainly concerning high performance and low rolling resistance tires. I have done PGDIRI (Post graduate diploma in Rubber Industry) conducted by IIT Kharagpur, India. I have done my Bachelor’s in Chemical engineering from Chandigarh University, India and secured a gold medal for passing in first division. During my degree time, I did projects on developing sustainable products (membranes made from peel of vegetables and fruits) to treat effluents coming from various manufacturing industries.
Danniel Liao is Supervisor for Product Application and Development. He has a Bachelor of Science from National Chi Nan University and Master of Science in Chemistry from National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan. Danniel joined OSC four years ago after working as a compounding engineer in research at Cheng Shin Tire, and has co-authored two publications in Rubber News since joining us
Stefano Savi is the Director of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR), a multi-stakeholder initiative aiming to address the sustainability issues arising around the natural rubber supply chain. Before this, Stefano was the Global Outreach and Engagement Director for the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, overseeing the design and implementation of RSPO Global Outreach and Engagement strategy. A Physics graduate, Stefano believes in building conditions for people to act freely and creatively, so that they can co-create a path forward. He believes success is the next step together in the right direction.
Jet Li was born on Jan 6, 1976. He graduated from Shenyang University of Chemical Technology in 1997 and has been working in tire industry for 27 years. Before joining Prinx Chengshan Tire in 2020, he had been working 10 years in Giti Tire and 13 years in Cooper Tire. He is very proficient in tire compounding and testing.