Engineered Products in the Environment
Goodyear Easyrider
Goodyear Engineered Products developed Goodyear Easyrider, an innovative
low-rolling resistant rubber cover compound. According to the Goodyear
conveyor belt technical team, the new Goodyear Easyrider conveyor belt cover
has been field-proven to reduce belt operating costs up to 12 percent. As a
belt passes over an idler roller, an indentation  occurs on its underside rubber
cover. The cover eventually returns to its original shape, but the process causes
energy loss. Lab tests show normal deformation from compression on a belt’s
idler cover side varies with material loads, but could reach 0.045 inches. It
doesn’t seem like a lot, but take the
minuscule power loss from impact at one
idler and multiply it over a typical one-mile
system with up to 1,300 idlers, and
the energy loss is staggering. In addition,
pulley indentation can be responsible
for as much as 60 percent of the power
consumed on a long horizontal conveyor
system. Easyrider recovers its shape more
quickly than conventional rubber conveyors, so more energy powers the actual
belt movement, instead of generating heat and noise at the idler indentation
points. Additionally, the efficient conveyor system creates less heat, which
extends belt life.
Goodyear Seawing
Goodyear Seawing is an off shore oil transfer hose that prevents oil
spillage and is manufactured at the company’s hose plant in Brazil for
worldwide distribution.
Weighing up to three tons, Seawing features a double-carcass configuration.
If oil leaks through the inner casing, the outer casing helps prevent oil
from reaching the external environment. Seawing is also equipped with an
electronic sensor that notifies an operator if an oil leak occurs.
Seawing is resistant to wear from oil, abrasion, weathering and sea water. It is
also certified by BVQI, in accordance to Oil Companies International Marine
Forum standards.
Available in submarine or floating models, Seawing is made primarily for the
transfer of crude oil and derivates. It can be used in a variety of applications,
including CALM buoys, Chinese Lantern or Lazy-S
configurations, FPSO and others.
Seawing helps prove that Goodyear is committed
to the oil market, and demonstrates the benefits
associated with combining technological innovation
with environmental respect.
Goodyear SpiraFlow
Steps to the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials in
Washington D.C. now shine like freshly minted coins
after pressure washer volunteers from across America
cleaned them using the innovative SpiraFlow hose.
Members of the Power Washers of North America
(PWNA) “Clean Across America” campaign deployed
environmentally-friendly cleaning methods that met
Clean Water Act requirements in order to remove the buildup of grit,
grime and gum.
Goodyear Engineered Products donated more than 2,500 feet of its SpiraFlow
hose with a unique, non-pooling hydra-channel
cover. The hose’s spiral groove design breaks
the seal between the hose and ground, which in
this application allowed cleaning fluids and dirt
to flow under the hose and drain away from the
monuments toward the reclaim system.
 SpiraFlow prevents uncontrollable pooling,
characteristic of conventional hose, that could
have streamed toward the nearby Potomac River
and contaminated the waterway.
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