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Moving Business: Container Handling Niche Offers Dealers Unique Opportunities
November 23, 2009
In a global economy where products are imported and exported worldwide, it takes a multitude of resources to keep things moving and on track. From load docks to loading bays, container handling equipment is everywhere products are being shipped, moved and inventoried. And vital to that equipment’s operation is – you guessed it – tires.
Tire dealers who find themselves in the right...
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The Most Important Environmentally Friendly Products In The World
November 16, 2009
Every time a tire is retreaded many gallons of oil are saved and one more tire is kept out of scrap tire piles.
Hundreds of millions of passenger cars, trucks and all types of commercial vehicles worldwide have safely been using retreaded tires for many years. Even commercial and military airlines worldwide are users of retreaded tires.
Thanks to retreading more than a billion gallons of oil...
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Still Strong: Retreading Market Remains Steady Amid Ownership Changes
January 25, 2008
For the retread market, 2007 was a year of significant activity and change, with Bridgestone Corp. acquiring Bandag in June, followed the very next month by Michelin North America’s acquisition of Oliver Rubber Co.
Both actions were all about efficiency and effectiveness, and fundamentally complete the marriage of new tire producers to major retread suppliers that began some 20 years ago.
They...
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Survival Mode: Significant Changes in Retreading Forcing Independents to Adapt
January 10, 2007
They expected it to happen eventually. It was just a matter of time, industry insiders said. So, it wasn’t a total surprise when Bridgestone Americas Holding (BAH) announced its intent to purchase retread giant Bandag.
After all, BAH and Bandag have collaborated for decades. Bandag-owned Tire Distribution Systems (TDS) stores sell Bridgestone tires, and many GCR Tire Centers, part of...
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What Are Retreaders Doing to Improve Fuel Efficiency?
December 11, 2006
If trucks are kings of the road, then retreaded tires are their scepters.
The Tire Industry Association estimates that approximately 17.6 million retreaded truck tires were sold in North America in 2005, with total sales exceeding $3 billion. The majority of these were medium truck tires. That’s almost three-fourths of the entire medium/heavy truck tire market.
Just like new replacement...
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A Fresh Look: Supply Problems and Advancing Technologies Fuel Retreading Growth
November 28, 2005
Suppose for a moment that you’re the owner of a candy store, and that, for quite some time, you’ve been selling all of the quality candy that you can possibly stock in your limited storage space. And, suppose that your customers seem to be happy campers and that, for once in your career, they aren’t complaining much about price – except for the occasional curmudgeon who...
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Next Big Thing: Fleets Still Want Retreads But Prefer Greater Cost Efficiencies
July 05, 2004
Today, retreading is an integral part of most successful commercial tire servicing operations. The synergy gained from combining replacement tire sales with tire/wheel servicing and retreading makes good business sense from the viewpoints of both the fleet customer and the tire dealer.Truck fleet operators, both small and large, have precious little time and few resources available to shop multiple...
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Mostly Cloudy
March 01, 2003
Mostly CloudyConsolidations, NHTSA testing and Asian imports have made the retread market muddyInspect the casing. Remove old tread. Apply new tread rubber. Cure and trim the tire. Repeat as necessary.The act of retreading a tire isn’t the most complex thing in the industry. However, getting a firm handle on the medium truck tire retread market can be a little tougher. The market has been cloudy...
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Retreading Smaller Tires
March 01, 2003
Retreading Smaller TiresThe popularity of radial commercial light truck tires has increased dramaticallyin the last several years – especially in Classes 3-5. The most popular sizes have 16- to 19.5-inch wheel diameters and differ from their traditional light-duty or recreational service counterparts by having design features and materials commonly found in larger commercial Class 6-8 radials.These...
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State of The Union: Low Cost Radials, consolidations, Economy Hurting Retread Industry
April 01, 2001
State of The UnionLow Cost Radials, consolidations, Economy Hurting Retread IndustryDeveloping a forecast for the tire and retread industries for this year has been like trying to forecast the stock market. I can only hope that my industry forecast and report will be more accurate than my stock market judgments over the last 12 months.Like nearly every industry in the world today, the tire industry...
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The Retreading Market: Plants More Productive, But Pressures Putting the Squeeze On
April 01, 2000
The Retreading MarketPlants More Productive, But Pressures Putting the Squeeze OnRetreading has been an integral part of the tire industry and American life for over 100 years. From the earliest days of steel-studded leather bands to the first true mold-cure retreading to the innovation of precure treads, and through the necessity brought on by two world wars, retreading has remain instrumental in...
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