Effective 1 February 2025, the Marangoni Group has merged all its sales and marketing activities for new tyres and retreads within the truck-bus and off-highway segment into a single business unit, Direct. Heading the Direct business unit is Christoph Brinkmann. His appointment is one of three recent strategic changes at Marangoni.
With the installation and commissioning of a new, state-of-the-art production machine at its Rovereto site in Italy, Marangoni is looking forward to significantly enhancing the “quality and efficiency of the retreading process.” This investment in an Omega OTR 49 extruder, developed by Marangoni subsidiary TRM (Tyre Retreading Machinery), represents “another milestone” in the retreading specialist’s “commitment to excellence” and the “continuous improvement” of its retreaded tyre production.
Marangoni Group has come on board as the official Trophy Sponsor of the 2025 Recircle Awards, an accolade that acknowledges excellence in the global tyre retreading and recycling sectors. With its support for the awards, the Italian company wishes to demonstrate its commitment to sustainability.
September 2024 marked 20 years of partnership between Marangoni and Scottish RingTread partner, Alba Tyre Management Ltd.
Recent years have seen the UK retreading landscape shift enormously. The combined pressures of pandemic-related issues as well as wider economic and cost-of-living factors, combined with material supply difficulties has resulted in two outcomes. First, several retreaders have closed their doors. And second, the balance of retreading materials supply swung away from one large manufacturer-owned franchise approach in favour of an independent-network-driven business model. When the closures took place, they occurred with all the finality “winding up” brings with it. That being the case, it is with great joy to write that in recent weeks Tyres & Accessories has learnt of at least two Phoenix operations where businesses that for one reason or another closed down in the last couple of years, have risen from ashes like the proverbial firebird and are boldly starting again. The first is Wirral Tyre Specialists Ltd, which is now under completely new ownership despite historic roots in the location. T&A had the pleasure of visiting at the end of July.
Just a few months after Prinx Chengshan announced a new collaboration with Marangoni, the Italian retreading specialist has begun producing its first ever Ringtread for the tyre maker. Thomas Wohlgemuth, managing director of Prinx Chengshan Europe, showed us the new tread at IAA Transportation.
Marangoni is expanding its Ringtread portfolio with a winter tread. The M+S and 3PMSF labelled RDW SK3 ring is immediately available for tyre sizes 315/80R22.5 (260 mm) and 315/70R22.5 (270 mm).
As we reported yesterday, Marangoni is increasing its production capacity for Ringtreads in Europe. Marangoni Retreading Systems Deutschland has shared further details about its ongoing capacity expansion at the Henstedt-Ulzburg facility near Hamburg. With an investment amounting to a mid-single-digit million sum, it will establish a completely new, third production line at the plant, which has been producing Marangoni Ringtread treads for the past two decades.
According to Marangoni, its technologies are utilised for more than 25 per cent of the pre-cure retreading carried out in Europe – and this market share is growing. In order to meet increasing demand, the retreading specialist is increasing its Ringtread production capacity with a new facility.
Marangoni has engaged in a retread cooperation with Prinx Chengshan’s Austone brand of truck and bus tyres. Following the reorganisation of certain aspects of Prinx Chengshan’s commercial vehicle tyre business in the Germany, Austria, Switzerland (DACH) region, which specifically includes refreshing distribution of the company’s Austone and Fortune-branded products, Marangoni experts tested a number of the tyremaker’s casings in Italy.
In addition to presenting a wide range of new products at The Tire Cologne, Prinx Europe will share details of its newly forged alliance with retreading specialist Marangoni. The company invites visitors to find out more at Hall 8, Stand C 038/D 039 between 4 and 6 June.
Towards the end of 2023, Phil Robinson, Marangoni senior country manager for the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and United Arab Emirates, explained the importance of the UK tyre retreading sector to sustainability as part of the annual NTDA Tyre Industry Conference. A few months later the specific impact of Marangoni’s success on the wider retreading business in the region is now becoming apparent.
Supported by the University of Trento’s Department of Industrial Engineering, Marangoni recently conducted a lifecycle assessment (LCA) of one of its pre-cure retreaded truck tyre products, the Ringtread Blackline WSS 300 M. It compared this with a new tyre intended for the same application. Marangoni and the department tested both tyres in size 385/65R22.5.
After a brief illness, Brenno Benaglia, former sales director of Marangoni Pneumatici and a well-known leader in the world of retreading and tyres in general, passed away on 24 February.
During this year’s National Tyre Distributors Association (NTDA) Tyre Industry Conference, Phil Robinson, Marangoni senior country manager for UK, ROI and UAE gave an impassioned and illuminating presentation on the subject of “The importance of retreading to sustainability”, which highlighted both the pressures and the opportunities associated with retreading. The word “sustainability” has become something of a by-word in the tyre business during 2023, which makes it all the more important that we take heed of what that term means.
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