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confident it will also meet the high demands of customers for tough action on the road and building site", said Christoph Priewasser, Retreading Product Manager at Kraiburg Austria. The block-type tread boasts transverse strength and open shoulders, allowing excellent transmission of the tractive forces. Its extra depth makes it an effective all-season retread – with high mileage included. The deliberately open pattern of tread bars with their rugged angles and inlets is highly
conducive to self-cleaning in any weather and on any surface. And there is something else special about the K228 and KMA1: the pattern is not unidirectional which makes it flexible and versatile. In addition to supplying the precure treads, Kraiburg Austria is also working with CIMA Impianti to provide a mould for hot cure retreading. For more information and the current pdf list of patterns, please visit www.kraiburg- retreading.com.
Oliver Introduces Smartway Verified Trailer Retread
Oliver Rubber now offers an EPA Smartway-verified precure retread for trailer position in long-haul applications. Oliver's Vantage Trailer II is designed for single axle and tandem axle assemblies.
“The Vantage Trailer II demonstrates the strength of Oliver’s experience,” said Philip Boarts, Oliver product
category manager. “This new retread provides excellent fuel economy, treadwear and traction.”
The Vantage Trailer II precure retread is compounded to offer low rolling resistance with long tread life. The contact area sustains a solid footprint,
while rounded shoulders reduce turning and corner stress and help resist curb damage. The generous 13/32nd tread depth includes straight grooves designed for free-rolling positions that result in exceptional lateral traction.
The Vantage Trailer II includes Oliver’s exclusive VDI plus feature. This exclusive tread feature acts as a visual depth indicator, plus it resists the retention of road debris. VDI plus has two extremely useful benefits for transportation and logistics companies. Easy visual tread depth gauging enhances the budget planning process for fleet operations. Further, by reducing lodging of foreign material, it helps abates stone drilling conditions and casing penetration issues that typically occur in the trucking industry.
This retread is available with or without Serra-Sipes for even greater traction. The Vantage Trailer II is available in four sizes: 205, 210, 220 and 230. All Oliver retreads carry a national warranty to 2/32nds of tread depth.
Conti Hybrid HD3 SmartWay-Verified
Continental Tire the Americas LLC’s Commercial Vehicle Tire business unit has announced that its hybrid application drive tyre for commercial trucks, the Conti Hybrid HD3, is now SmartWay-verified as a low rolling resistance drive tyre for class 8, line-haul tractor trailers.
This tyre is now the 20th in a line of Continental new and retreaded truck tyre products that are currently listed as verified by SmartWay.
Conti Hybrid HD3 is a third- generation long-haul highway drive tyre, named because it allows drivers to operate in the combined highway and regional application with an excellent combination of
long mileage, traction and fuel saving characteristics.
With advanced tread cap compounding, a self-stabilizing rib-block pattern, and minimised tread deformation from a stiff shoulder, drivers can expect the Conti Hybrid HD3 to have more than 10 per cent improvement in rolling resistance against Continental’s HDR2 and HDL2 DL. The tyre is available in sizes 295/75R22.5, 11R22.5 and 11R24.5. Conti Hybrid HD3 will be available as a ContiTread retread product in late 2013, and will also be submitted to SmartWay for verification under the retread technologies programme.