Purcell Buys Goodyear OTR Retread Business

In the USA, Goodyear Tire & Rubber is exiting the OTR tyre retreading business, selling the assets of its operation to Purcell Tire & Rubber. Purcell plans to move the operations and equipment – located Salisbury, North Carolina, and Winona, Minnesota – to its Potosi, Missouri base. Purcell already has five retread plants in the western US and some 60 retrail and commercial tyre centers.

“This should be a shot in the arm for our Missouri operations,” Purcell executive president Keith Butcher told the St Louis Business Journal. Goodyear will continue to operate its commercial truck tyre retreading operations. (Tire Review/Akron)