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system to help manage and minimise risks. The software enhances its valued Tyre Management System by incorporating strict health and safety controls.
The QSMA integrates fully with various operations at on-site facilities, even capturing and downloading tyre performance measurement data from cell phones to a central database on a daily basis. Information is shared and available at the touch of a button, quality is independently monitored by the system and operational procedures are controlled methodically.
Features of the Trentyre QSMA system include document control management, data base storage of risk assessments, standard operating procedures, audit reports, equipment calibration, employee training and certification, asset register and equipment specifications, and supplier and product management.
“In particular, QSMA enables more effective management of non- conformances and incidents, such as tyre blow-outs or accidents. As all information is linked to a single job
card, supervisors are able to identify the root causes and quickly take effective corrective actions.
“In essence, our QSMA ensures employee safety, highlights risks and provides guidelines for operational procedures.”
Trentyre’s on-site employee training includes the integrated QSMA system, which was implemented first at Kumba Iron Ore’s Sishen and adjacent Khuman mines near the little town of Kathu, some 200km east of Upington. The scale of these operations is immense – Sishen, for example, ranks as the third-largest mine in the world – and Trentyre’s specialist cradle-to-grave TMS operations need to match them in terms of quality and efficiency. Here, downtime is measured in hundreds of thousands of rands so Trentyre remains permanently on call, around the clock, 365 days a year. “Trentyre’s long-term vision is to incorporate QSMA at all our mine operations but, for now, it is fully operational in these Kathu mines and also in the services we render to their on-site contractors, such as Aveng Moolmans. Our approach is uncompromising when it comes to employee safety.”
initial licence for a GCC investor to set up the plant.
A foreign investor has also been issued an initial licence to open a tyre retreading factory in North Sitra industrial zone. In fact, our report suggested that this investor may well be National Retreading from Kuwait, who are already operating a retreading service to Qatar and
provisions of both governments as old casings are not allowed to imported or exported in the GCC states,” Fahed reiterated.
Initially, National Retreading would practice this model to cater for the Bahrain market and observe how fast retreading is being accepted in the domestic market. “If the results are positive, we will immediately set up
Our man in the Middle East and Asia, Satnam Singh
Bahrain Plans Tyre Recycling Factory
Bahrain.
“Bahrain is a small country where 60 per cent of the heavy trucks are owned by around 30 big fleet operators. We could visit them all in a maximum of two weeks,” Fahed stated. National Retreading plans to kick-start the retreading venture with Marangoni Ringtread retreaded tyres. “The casings collected from the Bahrain market would travel to the Al-Zahem Kuwait based retreading unit, will be retreaded and delivered back to Bahrain under special
the retreading plant,” Fahed assured. (RB 2012/1)
Now, it one thing for us to be first to publish a news item, but to publish the news before the government makes the announcement is a feat worthy of note. Well done to our man Satnam.
As stated in the previous issue of Retreading Business (2012/1) retreading is taking off in Bahrain. Some two months after our intrepid reporter Satnam Singh reported from the Gulf that retreading was being developed in Qatar and Bahrain, the Bahraini government announced on
the 18th April that it was issuing a licence for retreading.
According to Bahraini media sources, a plant specialised in recycling worn- out tyres could soon be established in Bahrain, according to the country’s Industry and Commerce Ministry. The ministry has issued an
Quality is not an act,
it is a habit. Aristotle
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