Tyre Tripling Without the Muscle

Tyre tripling, inserting two used tyres inside another one, has been increasingly adopted as a method of saving space and achieving transportation cost savings. To give a real life example, up to around 1,600 tyres can normally be fitted into a standard container. Up to 3,500 “tripled” tyres can be fit in the same space. According to Arne Blaes, the proprietor of a company which manufactures tripling machinery, the process was invented by Africans who in most cases carried out the strenuous tripling process by hand.

However, says Blaes, this “regularly leads to problems because it is involves extremely hard physical exertion.” The problem is that transporting non-tripled tyres doesn’t make any economic sense as shipping the tyres alone would be too expensive. As a result of rising freight costs, this type of packaging is said to be increasingly common amongst new tyre wholesalers in shipping cheap tyres to developing countries.

TirePack IS 3.0 has been developed with these applications and the Health and Safety/economic benefits in mind. An additional benefit over manual packing is that the machine is said to take better care of the tyres it is tripling. With the manual method, tyre beads and shoulders were often so bent that it the tripled tyres were arriving damaged.

The machine works exclusively with compressed air and can triple a tyre every 30 seconds. According to the company, approximately 20 leading companies in Europe and Japan have been working with TirePack IS 3.0 for over a year “completely smoothly.” The concept is patented worldwide and TirePack IS 3.0 has CE certification.

Atlanta, Georgia-based TireBiz International LP distributes the machine in the Americas and Asia.