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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rubber composition based on NR and BR and being useful for a studless tire tread excellent in breaking performance on an ice- or snow-covered road. SOLUTION: The rubber composition for studless tire treads is obtained by kneading a masterbatch prepared by compounding below 50 pts.wt. rubber component comprising a solid natural rubber or a mixture containing at least 50 wt.% solid natural rubber and other diene rubbers and adding to the rubber component at least 60 wt.% portion of the entire filler to be added to the final rubber composition in the stage of preparing the masterbatch, with a rubber which is at least one member selected from among a polybutadiene rubber, a natural rubber, a styrene/butadiene copolymer rubber and a polyisoprene rubber and contains such an amount of the polybutadiene rubber that the total of this and the polybutadiene rubber (when present) in the masterbatch is 50 pts.wt. or larger. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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