On June 2, from the 12th China-EU Business Summit in Belgium,Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Belgian Prime Minister Michelle witnessed that Zhongce Rubber Group(ZC for short) and Bekaert Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement.
  The two companies have maintained long-term relationships in the field of steel cord application for tyre reinforcement. Strong collaboration between Bekaert company which is the tire wire structure and high-strength materials explorer and  ZC Rubber Group which is high quality and light weight,energy saving and environmental protection practitioner,   will have complementary advantages.The signing of this strategic cooperation agreement will deepen all-round cooperation of new materials, new technology research and application which core is “green tire” , jointly promote the tire cutting-edge technological revolution.
  It is understood that if a steel cord in steel tire from the ordinary strength (NT) increased to the high strength level (UT), the tire steel cord weight can be reduced by 30%, tire weight can be reduced by about 6% which provided the possibility of reducing the rolling resistance coefficient of the tire. And the international leading multi-alloy coating technology (TAVA) applications,also significantly reduced the amount of non-environmentally friendly raw materials in the tires which made ZC Rubber tires more environmental and better quality. 
(R-12)