The ‘Intyre’ Business

Intyre is a tyre wholesale company that specialises in the export of used tyres. Situated in the centre of Belgium, near the well-known export and shipping centre of Antwerp, the company mainly deals with used car and truck tyres. Unlike other casing and used tyre companies, Intyre does not collect tyres from fitting stations and other dealers, but only buys tyres that can be ‘reused.’ “In this way we try to avoid stocking scrap tyres. We usually inspect the tyres at the supplier’s place and bring them to one of our warehouses where they are sorted by quality and size,” the company told T&A. Intyre has a 4600m² warehouse and a yard of about 8000m². “We usually distinguish two qualities for two different markets. Firstly there are the high-quality used tyres which are sold mainly in Europe. Our second outlet is the African and South American market, which mainly imports the cheaper second hand tyres,” company representatives concluded.