Sumitomo will transfer tire plant to use of hydrogen energy

Company Sumitomo Rubber Industries is going to begin use hydrogen as a new power source at the large tire plant in Shirakawa, Prefecture of Fukushima, Japan. The test project which will begin in August of this year with support of the Japanese organization for development new power and industrial technologies, is directed on use hydrogen, made in Prefecture of Fukushima. The total purpose of the project – to arrange tire production with zero emission of carbon, notes SRI. According to Sumitomo Rubber Industries, production tires demands application...