Continental has officially opened its laboratory in Anklam, Germany to research farming and the extraction process of Russian dandelions as an alternative raw material source to rubber trees. The company is planning to introduce the […]
Technology company Continental intends to increase its team of experts in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) by 2021 from its current figure of approximately 400 employees to approximately 700 employees. Continental cited the figure […]
Continental has started volume production of the EcoContact 6, a high-tech summer tyre that it says delivers substantial improvements in terms of rolling resistance, mileage, steering precision and braking distances. Compared to its predecessor, the […]
In 2011, Continental launched its research efforts to replace rubber from the tropics with material sourced from plants cultivated in temperate regions. The company settled on Taraxagum, a rubber that can be extracted from dandelion […]
Continental has announced it is expanding its international network for artificial intelligence (AI) in Silicon Valle by teaming up with the UC Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) centre. BDD works with state-of-the-art technologies for machine seeing and […]
The Supervisory Board of Continental AG has approved one of the largest organisational changes in the company’s history. The Executive Board had decided on the change on July 18, 2018 and with this approval, a […]
Telecommunications group Vodafone and Continental have announced a new partnership to improve safety on German roads. The companies are working on application scenarios at Vodafone’s 5G mobility lab and the initiatives include a digital shield […]
Continental in Europe is broadening its construction tyre portfolio with the new Conti CrossTrac truck tyre for mixed on/off-road application. Continental says that to fulfil the demanding requirements of the industry the new Conti CrossTrac […]
Continental has marked the production of its 10,000,000 tyre at its plant in Kaluga, Russia, just five years after the start of production. The plant delivers a wide range of passenger and light truck tyre […]
Continental has begun the installation of its first machine – a calendaring machine which coats fabric and steel with rubber – at its new tyre manufacturing plant in Rayong, Thailand. The company says that the […]