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 ...

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 ...

This year marked my 37th in the tire industry. I started at age 15, stacking tires when I wasn’t cleaning whitewalls at our family tire dealership. By the time I was 18, I was running road service ...

There’s little difference in retreading a wide-base tire, provided the retreading shop has the tools to accommodate them. “Obviously with the wider tires, some of the machine settings change and the ...

ROVERTO, Italy—Marangoni has developed a new retread tire for a demanding application in the mining sector, the Italian company announced Nov. 4. The MTXL retread was developed in response to an ...

Part 1 of the Back from the Dead series on retreaded tires covers the benefits — and little or no downside — of using retreaded tires and how to implement a retread program at your fleet. Part 2 will ...

Low-cost truck tire imports, particularly those from China, have cut into domestic new-tire sales over the past five years. But they’ve had an even more dramatic effect on the U.S. retread tire ...

•Retreading contributes to the productive life cycle of a tire using fewer materials•Less energy is required to build a retread tire•Conti Urban an urban concept tire will be retreadable Tire Retread ...

Choosing the right retread for a specific truck application has gotten a lot simpler for fleets. For one thing, with Bridgestone's acquisition of Bandag last year, three of the industry's major tire ...

Old habits die hard, as well as negative perceptions. Such is the case with unfavorable views of retread tires. But many fleets are choosing retreads over new tires due to improvements in product ...