The Milwaukee Brewers made history last month with their first-ever World Series Championship. Player performance seen on the field in the final game and throughout the season began long before the first pitch. Every day, Major League Baseball athletes spend hours training, recovering and preparing for competition, making the quality of their training environment just as […]

Kyle Field has been home to the Texas A&M Aggies football team in rudimentary form since 1904, and as a permanent concrete stadium since 1927. The seating capacity of 102,733 in 2021 makes it the largest in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the fourth-largest stadium in the NCAA, the fourth-largest stadium in the United States, […]

Continental has begun integrating recovered carbon black into selected conveyor belt compounds at its North American plants as part of efforts to reduce reliance on fossil-based raw materials and increase circular material use in industrial rubber products. The recovered carbon black used by Continental is supplied by Bolder Industries. The material is produced from post-consumer […]

Stockpile cleanup continuing, markets moving in both directions, exports climbing 270 percent The U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association (USTMA) 2025 End-of-Life Tire Market Report has a new name reflecting its move from supply-side reporting to tacking market health. An end-of-life tire (ELT) is a tire that can no longer serve its original purpose on a vehicle. […]

Washington’s Richland City Council has approved a service agreement with Liberty Tire Recycling LLC to clean up the largest waste tire pile in the state, spread over a roughly five-acre property with about 280,000 cubic feet of tires. In 2005, Northwest Tire Recycling set up operations on the site to bale tires and compress them […]

City officials placed rubber medians in some of their most notorious hotspots for street takeovers to hinder future sideshows Following a surge in illegal street takeovers across Southern California—including an incident this summer in South Los Angeles that escalated into the looting of a grocery store—the city of Compton has launched a new physical strategy […]

Microplastics have emerged as an important environmental conversation. Synthetic turf fields, which use recycled rubber crumb infill, have become part of that conversation, and the concerns raised deserve to be taken seriously. The amount of infill material that leaves a typical synthetic turf field has historically been small. Most of what leaves is carried away […]

Sometimes, when a road fails or is facing failure, challenges can quickly mount beyond traditional paving solutions throwing it into an emergency situation. This is especially critical on heavily trafficked, major thoroughfares. That was the situation the City of Fort Collins, Colorado faced three years ago when significant load-related distress was appearing in the surface […]