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Cooking oil-based resins for synthetic rubber at Continental

04 October, 2025
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Continental Headquarters

Continental Headquarters

TotalEnergies’s Cray Valley has agreed to supply tyre manufacturer Continental with ISCC Plus-certified Cleartack and Ricon resins.

Using a mass balance approach, the resins will enable an increase in renewable materials in the Continental Tyres value chain whilst maintaining the highest level of safety and performance through specific tire tread formulation.

Cleartack, a pure monomer low-molecular-weight tackifying resin, and Ricon, a liquid polybutadiene resin that enhances the performance of tires, are produced by TotalEnergies‘ Carling site in France. The ISCC Plus-certified bio-feedstock originally comes from vegetable oil or used cooking oil processed at TotalEnergies’ biorefinery in La Mède in France. Cray Valley will supply the resins to Continental tyre plants throughout Europe.

Thierry Lebriat, global head of sales at Cray Valley states, “The collaboration with Continental is the perfect example of a long-term and efficient partnership achieving impressive performance whilst accelerating the transition to more sustainable materials through innovative and reliable solutions.

“We are very proud to support our long-standing partner to reach its sustainability ambitions and simultaneously, this agreement is part of our 2030 ambition to supply more than 30% of our total volume as sustainable resins."

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