SPR licensees begin production
It is almost 20 years since the Rösler Group bought the Schelkmann patents for the pre-cured retreading of OTR tyres. Today this German company has reached a position on the European and global retreading market where the Schelkmann procedure is itself used as a product, a product that appears to be in strong demand. During the past two years the Rösler Group has emphasised the commercialisation of Schelkmann licenses, obviously a good means of generating cash through licence fees, but also very attractive to the German group; together with the licence comes a production plant using Rösler technology and a subsequent demand for Rösler pre-cured OTR treads. As of March there are six Schelkmann production entities operating worldwide, one of which is Rösler’s model plant in Dortmund, the company’s location in Western Germany.