RMA Appoints New Director
The Retread Manufacturers Association (RMA) has announced that it has appointed David Wilson as the association’s new director.
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Bandag Celebrate 30 Years in Slovenia
Product NewsRetreading specialist Bandag has now held a contract with its Slovenian Franchisee Alpetour Bandag for 30 years. The company’s CEO Martin Carver and leading European managers came together to mark the event by saying thank you to all the staff and customers that have supported the business for the last three decades. Alpetour Bandag is the leading retreader in the small state Slovenia, which recently joined the EU, and sells 22,000 retreaded truck tyres per year.
Marangoni to focus on Ringtreads
Product NewsThe retreading industry is always looking for new, more advanced solutions, and the ability to compete against new tyre performance. Marangoni believes its Ringtread concept is the answer to this. The Ringtread has undergone some extensive developments since its introduction. Once again the technology behind the tread is evolving. To mark its most recent stage of advancement Marangoni has committed the majority of its future investment towards marketing the system. As the industry’s attention is drawn towards the Ringtread, Tyres & Accessories discovers what’s behind the Italian manufacturer’s latest move.To download this article as a PDF file, click here.
TRIB Release Updated Retread Buyer’s Guide
Product NewsAn updated ‘Retread Tire Buyer’s Guide is now available from the Tire Retread Information Bureau/TRIB, both on the TRIB web site and in a printed version.
The updated guide contains hundreds of names of retreaders throughout North America and many other countries. The document includes complete addresses and telephone numbers, along with the types of retreading available.
TRIB Appoints Associate Director
Product NewsThe Tire Retread Information Bureau (TRIB) has announced David Kolman as its new associate director.
Based in California, the TRIB is associated with the recycling of tyres through repair and retreading. Mr Kolman will operate from Baltimore, giving the bureau its first office on the East Coast and adding to its existing group of over 400 members in 28 countries worldwide.
Ruedatec Joins Bandag Dealership
Product NewsRuedatec has officially joined the European network of Bandag dealers. Its new retreading shop and administrative building have now been formally inaugurated in the presence of Bandag’s Peter De Cabooter, sales director for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Danny Van Essche, EMEA marketing director.
Goodyear Dunlop Pursues Planning Permission for Wolverhampton Plant
Product NewsGoodyear Dunlop Tyres UK will pursue a formal planning application with Wolverhampton City Council for the development of the 90 acre Stafford Road site.
ECI International Updates Exhibition Statistics
Product NewsIn keeping with the current atmosphere of tyre industry trade events, exhibition organiser, ECI International, has released further statistics in response to both its Tyrexpo Asia and Brityrex International events.
Goodyear President Announced as TIA Expo’s Keynote Speaker
Product NewsThe Tyre Industry Association (TIA) has announced that Jon Rich, president of Goodyear’s North American tyre business, will be the keynote speaker at the 2005 TIA World Tyre Expo.
The North American exhibition of the commercial tyre, retreading, repairing and tyre and rubber recycling industries will be held in Kentucky 20 – 22 April 2005.
Oliver Rubber to Retread US Postal Service
Product NewsCooper Tire and Rubber Company and its subsidiary company, Oliver Rubber won a 10-year contract to retread US Postal Service tyres across the United States. Oliver Rubber produces and distributes tread rubber and retreading systems through a large network of licensed dealers. The company plans to use this network exclusively in order to service the 208,000 vehicles that the Postal Service maintains. 142,00 of these vehicles are considered long-life vehicles, which will undoubtedly provide additional retread opportunities for the company.
“The Postal Service speculates that they are currently using retreads on 20 percent of their fleet; however, they want to increase that number to 70 percent,” said Phil Boarts, Oliver director of retread sales and marketing.
“While the size of this whole project seems to be growing daily, we are making good progress in learning what we need to know about the current Postal Service operations,” continued Boarts.
The company plans to use precure and mold-cure technologies. Mold-cure technology will be employed on the majority of long-life vehicles and will, according to the company, “allow for improved ride characteristics.”
Bridgestone Europe establishes new company: ”Bridgestone Retread Systems”
Product NewsBridgestone Europe NV/SA announced today, that it has formed a new subsidiary company, Bridgestone Retread Systems NV/SA, in a joint venture with Italian retread specialist Marangoni Tread S.p.A as minority partner. The new company, headed by Managing Director Ing. Marcello Gambarini, will have its dedicated headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
Bandag faces negligence claim
Product NewsInternational truck tyre retreading business Bandag is today facing a compensation claim for commercial negligence. The legal action comes from its former franchise partner Newman Tyre Services in response to a breach of an implied contract of good faith and fair dealing between the two companies.
Nokian Tyres plc Q4 improvement
Product NewsThe Nokian Group’s net sales and operating profit increased in Q4 with all profit centres improving their results. Net sales grew by 10.3 per cent, to 528.7 million Euro (2002: 479.2 million Euro). Operating profit was 79.1 million Euro ( 60.1 million Euro). EPS were up to 4.48 Euro ( 3.17 Euro). The Board of Directors propose a dividend equalling 35 per cent of the net profit, that is 1.56 Euro ( 1.11 Euro) per share, to be distributed.
Maxsport Competition Tyres: Retreading the motorsport way
Product NewsIn today’s economic climate there are few people investing in car tyre retreading. The received wisdom is that in the UK car tyre retreading is dead or dying, and that across Europe it is seriously ill.
However, Peter Burgess, tyre trade enthusiast and entrepreneur has done just that. He has invested in a car tyre retreading plant, which for many people in the know is tantamount to confirming a kind of madness not seen since George III. However, Peter Burgess reveals that there is indeed method in his madness.
Maxsport competition tyres have been around for 15 years or so. The brand was originally owned by rally enthusiast Redmond Barry. Unhappy with paying high prices for motorsport tyres, Barry bought a few moulds and contracted an existing retreader to produce the tyres for him. Initially he had tyres made for himself and a few friends but the demand grew and the Maxsport brand developed a role in the motorsport sector. By 1993 the brand was sold to Monarch and Barry took on a role as sales consultant for Maxsport. When Monarch went into receivership Redmond Barry and Bill Madison bought the Maxsport side of the business. The next couple of years were a bit of a rollercoaster as manufacturers came and went.
In the meantime Peter Burgess had been selling Maxsport motorsport tyres through his Treble B outlets and directly to the grasstrack market. This experience with the brand and a knowledge of the market led Peter Burgess into a business relationship with Redmond Barry which resulted this year in the opening of a brand new factory dedicated to manufacturing Maxsport Competition Tyres.
Uses for old tyres: How many can you think of?
Product NewsT&A has looked at the waste tyre issue several times recently. In fact retreading and recycling is hardly ever missed from the magazine. Our focus has largely been on the legislation, the collection, the mass disposal of tyres and the issues surrounding the problem. There is nothing to say that those issues will go away any day soon. Some of the solutions being wholeheartedly supported at present are not universally popular, and may themselves in time become problems. Most solutions only extend the life of a tyre, or its constituent parts, ultimately the waste will either be burned or buried. The key to winning ground in this battle is to extend the life of the product before it is disposed of. Some say, closing the loop.
If you try asking a granulating company what their products get used for, they will usually admit to Equestrian surfaces, or sports surfaces, but little else. Yet we are told that rubber crumb has a multitude of uses, but what are they?
The article in October’s issue looks at some of the wider uses for waste tyres, serious and not so serious.
