Black Donuts Launches a New Material Research Center – InTire Labs

InTire Labs Official Launch on June 16, 2025
Location: Tampere, Finland

Black Donuts Inc. is proud to announce the official launch of InTire Labs on June 16, 2025. This event marks a significant milestone in Black Donuts’ journey toward sustainable innovation in the rubber and elastomer industry. 

About InTire Labs

InTire Labs is an independent Material Research Center dedicated to advancing the rubber industry through sustainable innovation. Located in Finland and powered by Black Donuts, the lab serves tire manufacturers, raw material suppliers, and rubber product developers worldwide—regardless of size.

The new Material Research Center is an open, collaborative, joint R&D innovations platform dedicated to researching, analyzing, and testing sustainable bio-based materials for tire manufacturing. Our core mission is to accelerate the transition from fossil-based raw materials in rubber compounds to more environmentally biobased, renewable, recycled and recyclable raw materials.

Our primary research goal is to reduce fossil-derived microplastic emissions from tire wear by replacing tread rubber raw materials with more biodegradable options.

Equipped with modern pilot-scale mixing and curing machinery, Mooney viscometers, aging and thermal analysis chambers, and testing technologies, InTire Labs supports the full lifecycle of innovation—from early compound formulation to performance validation. In addition to developing new materials, the lab is concentrating on advancing intelligent manufacturing through research in the following areas:

• Integration of smart sensors into rubber products
• Smart MES systems for digitalized and optimized R&D processes
• Remote monitoring of energy use and equipment performance
• Traceability and recycling strategies to support circular economies

We also explore pyrolysis and post-treatment methods to produce high-quality recycled materials locally and collect material parameters to build digital material models for simulating tire performance.

Why Material Research Center

Black Donuts is a global leader in tire technology and research and development, offering comprehensive, turnkey solutions throughout the entire tire lifecycle. We specialize in smart factory design and full-capacity implementation, material research and development, and tire testing, digital twin modeling, FEA tire simulation — all under one roof. Since the beginning of its operations, Black Donuts has consistently prioritized sustainability at the heart of its mission. InTire Labs is our next step forward toward cleaner, more innovative, and more efficient tire manufacturing.

To collaborate or learn more, please contact our team at intirelabs@blackdonuts.com or send us a message using the form below.