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TYREXPO AFRICA
Growth in Attendees for Tyrexpo Africa
small factor y making patches and tube patches, gradually over the years, the product range grew and more products where added. The company now sells and distributes around 1300 products for tyres.
The production facilities have grown to three factories producing four different ranges of tyre patches, industrial heat pads and air bags for their earthmover tyre repair systems and a range of extruder guns. Although Chemvulc may be small by world standards, the company has the ability to do custom work to
some for over a decade, there is very little that can go wrong with it. That is a big plus when you can’t get it fixed easily. It also makes it ver y straight forward for operators to use.
Chemvulc has adopted the same approach to its Extruder guns, making the barrels virtually indestructible; and anything that can break on the extruder gun can easily be repaired. “We are regularly seeing our extruder guns still at work in factories and mines that we sold more than 10 to 15
Tyrexpo Africa 2012, the fourth edition of the African continent’s only dedicated tyre show, took place from 6-8 March 2012 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Initial figures suggest that this year’s show attracted a total of 2652 attendees (including exhibitors), which represents an increase of 1.8% over 2010.
At first sight, this level of growth might seem a little disappointing, especially as the organisers invested heavily in marketing the show this year. However, the second day of the exhibition was affected by a strike and demonstration against electronic tolling on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project, which caused severe difficulties with transport locally.
The organisers, ECI International Ltd, professed themselves to be happy with visitor response. “Delegates and exhibitors came here from more than 73 countries and overall we were very happy with the outcome of the show”, commented Sales Director, Rowena Suthers “Exhibitors have been particularly impressed with the number of quality visitors and we have had numerous reports of orders being written during the show,” added ECI managing director Paul Farrant.
Positive quotes were also able to be gleaned from exhibitors at the show. . “We have been pleased with the overseas impact of the show”, said sales director of Leader Rubber Co. Conjack de Beer. “We have seen visitors from Mozambique and Zambia as well as other countries from the region. As such the show is helping us increase our international profile”.
As far as the retreading industry was concerned, support, if the truth be told was mixed. The only major tread rubber suppliers present were Leadertread and Elgi, although one or two others had a minor presence on other stands.
There were three retreaders present, these being speciality retreaders Bandenmarkt and Roesler as well as the Polish car tyre retreader, Profil. There were also several casing dealers including the German companies Kurz and Pinke. In terms of equipment and accessories the show attracted both leading shearography suppliers, SDS and Steinbichler, mould supplier Hong Kee and a number of accessor y suppliers including Dobermann Europe, Chemvulc, Hocom and Kwik-Patch/Myers Tire Supply. Tyrexpo Africa 2014 show dates are 4, 5, 6 March 2014.
meet the needs of its clients. For example they will readily design and make a special tyre patch for a specific application or a custom size heat pad for an ultra-large vulcanising system for earthmover tyres.
Earthmover Tyre repair is a strong focus for Chemvulc. The company manufactures a complete range of “Sectional” or unvulcanised patches to go with its Repair systems and provides all the equipment for effectively repairing truck tyres all the way up to the largest OTR tyres available. Its products include the cements, rope rubber and extruder guns. The advantage of the repair system is that the injury and the patch are vulcanised into the tyre in a single step, it also has the added advantage of doing larger repairs, especially useful when OTR tyre availability is an issue. The system is designed to be ver y
versatile, it being possible to repair a wide range of tyre sizes with a single controller and a combination of harnesses, heat pads and air bags. Chemvulc
resisted the
temptation to add
bells and whistles to
the system, choosing rather to keep it simple. In Africa where there are a number of systems in operation,
years ago”, says Managing Director Brendan van Niekerk. The company has just launched a new high volume extruder for filling injuries on big earthmover tyres.
The super giant buzz gun is the big brother to the ver y popular big buddy buzz gun, already widely used in repair bays and retreading factories. The giant extruder gun will cut down the time it takes to fill the injury of a large OTR tyre to a fraction of the time it takes with a conventional extruder.
The new giant extruder can extrude up to 45kg of rope rubber per hour! Its powerful motor and enlarged, extended barrel make the extruder capable of pushing out large amounts of rubber to quickly fill large injuries on any Earthmover
Tyre. Both the Big Buddy gun and the Super Giant gun
are made with a
specially hardened barrel and screw ensuring long life with little maintenance issues.
Chemvulc Knocks on the Door of a Global Market
If you live outside of Southern Africa, you have probably never heard of Chemvulc. However this family run South African business has some of the most innovative products for the tyre industry in the emerging markets of the world. In truth, though, Chemvulc’s products are surprisingly simple, low tech,
and designed for ver y robust use.
In fact, the kind of products required in heavy mining operations in very remote parts of the world or where road conditions push tyre life to the limit.
Chemvulc, or Chemical Vulcanising Systems to give the company it’s full name, started in 1977 in a
The super giant buzz gun
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