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AUTOPROMOTEC
NTJ Launches Silvercap Brand to European Market
CIMA Celebrates 60th Anniversary – Expands in OTR Sector
Joao Carlos Paludo (left) and Ivan Bueno (right)
Silvercap is the name of the new brand of pre-cured treads set to be launched onto the global market. Manufactured at several sites in Asia, Silvercap is the brand name of NTJ Investimentos Brasil Ltda, the newly launched investment group headed up by Joao Carlos Paludo, the ex-CEO of Vipal.
According to Paludo, who we interviewed during the Autopromotec exhibition in Bologna, NTJ will be active in a variety of sectors within the tyre and rubber industr y including product development in areas such as raw materials validation and technical support, the sale of equipment for the rubber industry and solution development in the renewable energies area, including the establishment of small hydroelectric plants (1/2 MW to 5 MW) and the development of a system to collect used tyres for burning on the free market.
As far as the tread rubber sector is concerned, NTJ is currently active in supplying materials within Brazil and South America but is now
looking to establish positions within the global market. With that in mind, the Silvercap brand has been registered in 40 countries worldwide. According to Paludo, the company’s purpose in Bologna was to listen to the demands of the market with a view to launching properly in Europe next year.
NTJ’s concept with Silvercap is interesting in that the company has secured production capacity in a number of Asian tread rubber plants, thereby assuring continuity of supply and, one presume, keen prices. NTJ says it controls the quality of the production at each of these plants.
The Silvercap brand itself is being promoted under the strapline of “Technology that comes from you” and is focused on assuring the best value at a fair price by “keeping it simple”. At this early stage of development the Silvercap brand is available in a range of 20 sizes covering a variety of long haul, urban, mixed service and off road applications.
Massimo Capecchi is delighted as CIMA celebrates its 60th anniversary
Italian retread equipment manufacturer Cima Impianti, best known for its status as one of the leading suppliers of presses and moulds, celebrated its 60th anniversar y in style during the Bologna show with a well attended reception on their stand.
At the same time, Managing Director Massimo Capecchi revealed that the company was close to completing a major tunkey OTR retreading project in Ras al Khaimah in the UAE with Stevin Rock, the Ras al Khaimah government owned mining operation.
According to Capecchi, the plant will be operational by the end of the year and will manufacture a full range of OTR retreads ranging from 24” to 49” by both the mould cure and cut tread methods. The success with Stevin Rock is indicative of the
fact that OTR is now a major sector of interest for Cima and Capecchi points out that the company now has a full range of equipment for OTR retreaders including, peeling, buffing and skive filling equipment, suitable for the retreading OTR tyres of up to 63” in diameter.
During the show Cima were also launching a new balancer for passenger car and LCV tyres, allowing the operator to calculate imbalances on casings to be retreaded. The DB 900 IN/UG is a multifunctional balancer, compact in size, which allows static or dynamic balancing, with the possibility to set the imbalance indicator in grammes or ounces.
Midas Plans Capacity Increase
Indian tread rubber supplier Midas is planning to increase its production capacity by the addition of three new presses. This was revealed by
Company Director Paulose Varughese (pictured centre) during the Autopromotec exhibition in Bologna. According to Varughese, the addition of the new presses will increase capacity by 450 tonnes to 3500
tonnes in total.
At the same time Midas announced the appointment of a new dealer in Bolivia, Recabol.
The new CIMA casing balancer enables retreaders to balance casings before retreading