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MALAYSIA
Q-Team: Malaysian Retreader Offers One-Stop Shop for Truck Maintenance and Repair
Q-Team Sdn Bhd, based in Klang, Malaysia positions itself as a one-stop workshop, with the aim of providing quality, reliable, efficient and hassle-free maintenance for commercial vehicles across the country. It
also happens to be the only truck service workshop in Malaysia to operate its own retread plant. We were shown round the company’s impressive facility in Klang by Operations Director James Chong and Finance/HR Director Elaine Boon.
Q-Team’s aim is to provide everything under one roof. As well as retreading,
the company
provides servicing facilities, wheel, axle and frame alignment, a spray booth and accident repair as well as selling second hand trucks for customers. The company is also an insurance agent for
AmG Insurance Berhad and Pacific Insurance Berhad.
Q-Team’s main workshop is in Klang although the company does provide national coverage thanks to a national breakdown service supported by small workshops in Seberang Prai in the north and Pasir Gudang in the south.
Q-Team has a close relationship with Mercedes-Benz and in February 2011 the company was authorised as a 3S and 2S centre for Mercedes Actros and Mitsubishi Fuso commercial vehicles. Key clients include major haulage companies such as Swift, Kontena Nasional, Landbridge, Konsortium and Yinson Haulage, to name but a few.
The company’s retread plant was equipped by Malaysia’s leading equipment supplier, Newera and includes both a fully computerised Newera NA222 autoclave as well as a high pressure testing machine. The company manufactures 3,000 precure radials per month using Kayel and Eversafe rubber. The company achieved MS224:2005 certification by SIRIM in April 2010.
Operations Director James Chong and Finance/HR Director Elaine Boon
Goodway’s Head of Marketing, Tai Qisheng
Goodway Implements Investment Plans in Nilai Plant
third quarter of the year. Considerable work is also being carried out on changing and improving the environment at the factory. As part of an energy saving programme, transparent roofs have been installed in the factory and lights lowered to increase light. Outside work has also been carried out on the general environment including in the gardens surrounding the factory, down to simple things like adding a filter to
the fountain outside the factory’s front door. Says Tai Qisheng. “This is to get the message across that everything matters when it comes to creating the right working environment”.
The plan certainly seems to be working. According to Tai, during the financial year ending 2011 the company achieved a 20 per cent increase in revenue to RM 278 million with profit before tax up 41.2 per cent.
Goodway Rubber have revealed details of a comprehensive investment plan aimed at updating and upgrading the company’s manufacturing plant at Nilai, Malaysia. The plan is being implemented by Bob Ngaau, who was promoted to General Manager at the plant in May last year and includes significant investments in new machinery.
Integral to this are plans for a new cold feed extruder to be installed next April and two new 10m presses, one to be installed at the end of this year and the other in
levels more efficiently. Goodway will be supplying the necessary cutting equipment.
In the mixing section the company’s sixth Banbury is currently being installed, an additional line for the production of Goodway’s Rubtek technical rubber range. According Goodway’s Head of Marketing, Tai Qisheng, the company is looking to increase technical rubber sales from 25 to 35 per cent of turnover. A further new Banbury is also planned for installation next year and will be housed in an area currently used for
2013. Meanwhile, already in place is a new tread buffing line from Matteuzzi installed late last year and a new cushion gum calendar line being installed to produce Speedflex cushion gum. This new product is claimed to reduce curing time by up to 20 minutes as well as being able to be cut to size, allowing retreaders to control inventory
antioxidant storage.
Other investment plans include the replacement of the chemical compounding units including the addition of automatic weighing machines, the renovation of the laboratory and efficiency improvements in the mould storage area. Plans are also afoot to launch new Supercool products during the
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