The China Rubber Association tire label grading standard was released in June

Xu Wenying, vice president and secretary general of the China Rubber Industry Association, said that it has become an inevitable trend
to indicate the performance level of tires in the form of labels.
The principle of compiling the "Tire Label Grading Standards" is to standardize domestic tire performance indicators, eliminate some tire products and backward production capacity with substandard performance, increase industrial concentration, promote benign competition in the market, and realize product structure adjustment and enterprise transformation and upgrading
.
At the same time, it puts forward higher requirements for tire performance, comprehensively improves product grade and market competitiveness, promotes technological innovation, enhances brand effect, and improves enterprise competitiveness
.

Qian Ruijin, head of the tire expert group of China Rubber Association and chief engineer of Shuangqian Group Co.
, Ltd
.
, introduced that the "Tire Label Grading Standard" applies to new pneumatic radial tires (excluding retreaded tires, industrial machinery tires, T-type temporary spare tires, etc.
) that are originally designed to be installed on vehicles running on highways and urban roads sold in the replacement market in China 。 In view of the fact that the current domestic laws and regulations are not sound enough, the level of enterprises' understanding of the law and conscious implementation is uneven, the implementation method of the standard is that the European complete self-declaration form can be considered in China, and the professional institutions authorized by the government can also be considered to implement certification according to the standard, and the method of voluntary declaration according to the certification results (or complete self-declaration, certification bodies implement supervision and spot checks).

Regarding the selection of test tires, the preparation instructions of the "Tire Label Grading Standards" pointed out that whether it is the EU ECE certification or the United States SmartWay certification, it is distinguished by the pattern as a product series, and the test specifications should be specified in the same pattern series, and the test specifications should be able to represent the test results of all products in the pattern series, which can greatly save the test cost and test cycle
of tire companies 。 In the qualified laboratory or test site commissioned by industry associations or consumers, the selection of tire test specifications can refer to the "Worse Case" tire selection principle stipulated in the EU technical bulletin on R117, that is, the test specifications selected according to the regulations reach a certain grade, and all the products with the pattern can be considered to have reached this grade
.

In addition, the preparation note also pointed out that the technical indicators of tire labels should be consistent with the current content of the European Union in the project, that is, they should include the rolling resistance, noise and wet slip performance of the tyre, where the implementation
of noise performance is delayed.
The test method also recommends the equivalent or equivalent use of EU technical standards (the current national standards are basically equivalent or equivalent adoption).

These three indicators have a certain correlation, and considering one single indicator alone may lead to excessive pursuit of some indicators at the expense of other important performance
.
The test verification method of these three performance indicators has been tested and verified by a large number of tests, and has formed a complete, widely recognized and recognized
method.

The Provisions on the Administration of Tire Labels provide detailed provisions
on the application, review, posting and supervision of labels.
The participants agreed that the orderly implementation of the Tire Label Grading Standards must be accompanied by effective, fair and just supervision
.
To this end, the "Tire Label Management Regulations" requires: every year, the China Rubber Industry Association organizes the supervision of the products of the labeling applicant enterprises, randomly selects tires from the market and entrusts a third-party qualified laboratory or testing site for testing, and the China Rubber Association publishes
them.
Once it is verified that the tire labeled by the enterprise does not match the content of the tire label, the applicant enterprise can apply for re-inspection within half a month; If the test results do not match the content of the label, the qualification of the pattern series tire label will be
canceled.

Han Jingyou, researcher of the Petrochemical Division of the Department of Raw Materials of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the "13th Five-Year Plan" period is a key period for China's tire industry to move from a world power to a strong country, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology put forward five tasks for the rubber industry in the "13th Five-Year Plan" for the petroleum and chemical industry: First, the development of high-end products such as aviation radial tires, green car tires and supporting raw materials such as low rolling resistance carbon black; The second is to promote energy-saving processes such as wet rubber refining and nitrogen-filled high-temperature vulcanization in a timely manner; The third is to study and formulate a tire labeling system; Fourth, encourage the construction of tire test sites; The fifth is to implement the brand strategy and cultivate a number of internationally recognized well-known brands
.
Among them, the tire labeling system is the most critical task, which is the basis
for evaluating green tires and building well-known brands.
The China Rubber Association has completed the "Tire Label Grading Standard", which has created good conditions
for the implementation of China's tire labeling system.
He expressed his gratitude
to the China Rubber Association for its extensive work in cooperating with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to promote the industrialization of green tires and the tire labeling system.

Yuan Zhongxue, a deputy to the National People's Congress and initiator of China's tire labeling law, and chairman of Softcontrol Co.
, Ltd.
, believes that more and more countries have introduced tire labeling laws and vigorously developed green tires
.
The implementation of the tire labeling system is the demand of the market and consumers, is in line with international standards, and is the need for the transformation and upgrading of
the industry.
Any new standard or regulation cannot be perfect at the beginning and must be continuously improved
in implementation.
Therefore, he proposed: First, introduce the tire labeling system as soon as possible and improve it in practice; Second, China is a latecomer, so it does not need to be unconventional, but can first adopt the doctrine and implement it according to the standards of great international influence; Third, supervision is very important in implementation, and to adhere to fairness and justice, the association needs to do a lot of work
.

Zhu Hong, director of the Technical and Economic Committee of the China Rubber Association, said that the tire label grading standards and management measures will be revised as soon as possible according to the discussion opinions of the participants, and at the same time explained the time nodes of the standard revision and release: around June 10, the tire label online declaration platform will be put into trial operation, when some enterprises can make voluntary declarations in advance; On June 15, the 2nd Green Tire Safety Week held in Qingdao was promoted; In October
, tire companies can officially and voluntarily declare the classification of Chinese tire labels.
At the same time, it is hoped that in 2019, the state will formally legislate
the tire labeling law.

Xu Wenying finally said that since 2012, the China Rubber Industry Association has been entrusted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to carry out research
on the industrialization of green tires.
In the past four years, the China Rubber Association has organized key enterprises and technical experts in the industry to carry out solid work step by step, completed the "Green Tire Industry Development Research", formulated and released China's first "Green Tire Technical Specifications", completed the "Tire Labeling System Research" project, and now carried out the final review
of "Tire Label Grading Standards".
During this period, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has always given unswerving support, and the participating industry experts have paid a lot of hard work, and the melons are ripe until now
.

She said that with the establishment of tire grading standards, enterprises will increase investment in green tires, and the market share of green tires will continue to increase
.
The industry will take the industrialization of green tires as an opportunity to comprehensively promote the pace of industrial energy saving, environmental protection and clean production, guide the whole industry to promote green production and green products, improve the level of scientific development of the industry, and achieve industrial upgrading
.