Marangoni Expands Middle East Retreading Activities

In recent months, Marangoni Retreading Systems has taken on a number of new partners in the Middle East and signed agreements with a number of important retreaders within the region, including Al Zahem Industries in Kuwait. Through this particular contract, Marangoni Retreading Systems has been able to enter the Kuwaiti market with the backing of the experience and skills possessed by the country’s sole retreader.

Kuwait, with its modern road network and long transport corridor connecting Iraq in the north to Saudi Arabia in the south, is considered a hub for all transport into Gulf countries. Each year some 150,000 new and retreaded commercial vehicle tyres are sold there and at present a strong shift to radials in the latest sizes is being witnessed.

Al Zahem Industries has over twenty years’ retreading experience and believes this partnership with the Italian company will represent an important source of growth and profits through the possibility to offer users Marangoni’s Ringtread technology. “The partnership with Marangoni will provide our customers the best that retreading has to offer: Ringtread is the only circular retread,” stated Mrs. Haifa Abdulla Al-Zahem, general manager of Al Zahem Industries. “It adheres perfectly to the tyre casing, without joints and any tension or deformation, while ensuring faster processing, less waste and performance that is the same if not higher than offered by a new tyre.

“The tests conducted have shown how Ringtread guarantees the same or even higher mileage than the original tread, reducing the cost per kilometre, decreasing vibrations, giving greater balance, better heat disposal and with an identical appearance to the original tyre; moreover, with shearographic inspection we can now detect and identify any problems in the casing.”