The Urban Taraxagum bicycle tire is the first series tire to be manufactured with a tread made of dandelion rubber. It has already won several sustainability awards and has been on the market since 2019. The dandelion rubber used is grown, extracted and processed in Germany. The local extraction of raw materials avoids long transport routes and conserves valuable resources. The tire is produced at the tire plant in Korbach. At the Taraxagum research laboratory in Anklam, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, employees from the fields of agricultural sciences, chemistry, production and process engineering are responsible for cultivating the plants as well as for developing, constructing and operating machines for experiments on the further processing of Russian dandelions.

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With the ContiRe.Tex technology, a high-quality polyester yarn is produced from recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles. The yarn completely replaces conventional polyester, which is normally used for the construction of tire carcasses, while being just as durable. The material is produced mechanically and without intermediate chemical steps. The process involves manually separating the bottles from the caps and then mechanically cleaning, shredding and processing the plastic into granules that are eventually spun into the polyester yarn used to make our sustainable tires. The ContiRe.Tex technology is currently available in five sizes in the tire categories PremiumContact 6, EcoContact 6 and AllSeasonContact.

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Since 2022, all new tires in the "Gravity" mountain bike product range produced in Korbach have contained responsibly sourced natural rubber from a development project undertaken together with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. State-of-the-art digital technologies, local involvement in the cultivation of rubber and close cooperation with strong partners create transparency and a high level of traceability along the entire value chain for natural rubber.

Here you can find out more about our cooperation with GIZ.

The UltraContact NXT is the most sustainable production tire to date. With up to 65 percent renewable, recycled and mass-balance-certified materials, the tire combines a high proportion of sustainable materials with maximum safety and performance. The proportion of renewable materials amounts to as much as 32 percent. Recycled materials account for up to 5 percent. In addition, we source up to 28 percent ISCC PLUS mass-balance-certified materials from biological, biological-circular and circular raw materials.

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Since 2023, newly produced Super Elastic solid tires have been receiving recovered carbon black (rCB) at Continental's tire plant in Korbach. This saves the use of fossil raw materials and reduces CO2 emissions. Solid tires such as Continental's SC20+ are mainly used in material handling for forklift trucks, airport vehicles or other industrial vehicles and, thanks to their high natural rubber content, already contain around 60 percent renewable and recycled materials.

Here you can find out more about the use of recovered carbon black (rCB) in our solid tires. 

Urban traffic means stop-and-go traffic. Our latest tire technology increases the overall energy efficiency of a tire in these driving situations by up to ten percent. This means lower CO2 emissions for passenger cars with combustion engines and longer ranges for electric vehicles. This is achieved by optimizing tire behavior in urban stop-and-go traffic, which can extend the range of passenger cars by up to three percent. This corresponds to a saving of 0.6 kWh per 100 kilometers for electric vehicles.

Here you can find out more about the Conti CityPlus.