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SOUTH AMERICA
Recapoços Joins Moreflex
Recapoços is the latest company, to join Moreflex’s dealer network.
The retreader, which has been in business for 26 years, has an area of 4.500m2 dedicated to the retreading of truck tyres. It serves the southern region of Minas Gerais and São Paulo cities of Sao Jose do Rio Pardo, Santa Cruz das Palmeiras, Mococa, Mogi Guaçu Itapira, Limerick, Campinas and Jaguariúna.
The company chose to partner with Moreflex in search of a competitive market with technology and efficiencies that better meet customer needs.
To do this, is committed to the promotion and marketing of the Series H treads with high performance and lower weight, offering a more cost-effective solution for both the retreader and for the fleet.
According to Eder Passos, owner, "Our goal is to provide consumers with better performance combined with economy and a better preservation of the carcasses, which are our raw materials." Moreflex has used the opportunity of signing Recapoços to unveil its new partnership deal and hopes for success in the marketing of its products and, in particular, the H-Series in the region.
Tornometal Dominates in Uruguay
Uruguay is one of the smaller South American countries and a member of the Mercosur trading partnership. However, the big players in Mercosur have both put barriers up for retreaders in neighbouring states. Eduardo Salomon of Urugay’s Tornometal told Retreading Business that in the past the country had a strong retreading sector and exported retreads to the larger markets in Brazil and Argentina, but with both countries now having a ban on the import of used tyres that includes retreads, the Uruguay market was almost isolated. However, Tornometal’s retread division was a client of Vipal’s Ruzi and Tortuga brands and had a dominating position in the domestic market with hardly any competition of any note. Tornometal’s core business is in heavy plant and equipment, and in order to service the market for truck and earthmover tyres the company established its own retreading facility, which has been able to exploit the absence of real competition in the domestic market to gain its dominant position.