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Managing Director of ARW Thapana Khaen Kham Thong with his wife Aroonwan
don’t have to run after the business, it comes to us on its own,” he said smiling, flanked by wife, whose name is also the company title Aroonwan. ARW has two 12 tyre chambers from a local supplier and plans to install two more shortly.
Previously, it used to source liner from a local supplier but about two months ago converted to GIIB. It continues to source camelback locally. It buys about
25 tonnes of rubber for both the processes each month. Commenting on the challenges in the business, Thapana stated, “Long term credit is an issue. Retreaders are forced to offer up to three months credit and that is a real challenge.” ARW forayed into retreading about a decade back. It has been in the business of buying and selling casings for the last two decades.
and its client profile mainly comprises of fleets catering to the quarries or the cement business. It outsources a few OTR retreads from other units. ARW is further expanding its precure capacity by adding additional equipment. The company entered the market with the hot cure process and later forayed into the precure version, being introduced by Euro Tyres to GIIB recently. “We are planning to double the
precure capacity and we are looking for equipment from either Malaysia or a domestic supplier,” Thapana said. When asked for any specific reason for expanding the precure capacity, he replied, “A lot of precure business comes through everyday but we have to turn down the business due to our limited cold cure capacity.”
The unit is a bit far-off from the business hub but still claims to receive lot of business. “We
Preparing for plant expansion