BOLOGNA, Italy—Marangoni Group's Tyre Retreading Machinery unit is reporting signs of a pick-up in the retreading business "after several years of uncertainty." "Talking with the main retreading ...

DORAL, Fla. — A quartet of leading U.S. retreaders upgraded their manufacturing facilities recently with the purchase of automated buffers and other equipment from Brazilian retread systems supplier ...

In the early 1990s, the American Retreaders Association, which preceded ITRA, believed that hands-on training led by an experienced instructor was the best way to teach what was then a much more ...

A good tire maintenance program is built on standardization, consistency, and continual optimization. If starting from the ...

LIMA, Peru — Peruvian retreader Renova SAC is expanding its capacity to retread large OTR tires with the installation of a second tire-building unit at its plant in Lima capable of handling tires up ...

The disposal of tires represents a significant burden on the environment, so companies like Marangoni developed methods to recycle and reuse old tires. Watch how retreading machines make old tires ...

Strong competition in the tire retreading services market is pushing retreaders to streamline operational processes and enhance customer satisfaction through effective servicing. Currently, prominent ...

Harvey Brodsky, Managing Director of the Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau, explains which tires in an equipment fleet are able to be retread (hint: all of them) and how implementing a retread ...

Package delivery trucks are the best candidates for medium-duty retreads, but almost any application using Class 2-6 vehicles could benefit from retreading. The benefits of retreading are well ...

The carcass of a construction equipment tire is built tough to withstand immense loads and harsh off-road use, so they can still have value after the tread has worn out. It’s a situation that should ...

Tyres contribute roughly 10%, with vehicle maintenance and other overhead expense adding another 20%. With freight margins razor-thin, fleet operators are forced to optimise every cost component. As ...

This story appears in the May 26 print edition of Transport Topics. As fuel prices have skyrocketed, trucking companies have been forced to look closer at other parts of their businesses to trim costs ...