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Vipal Wins Brazilian Export Award
throughout Europe and Africa on charter and scheduled services.
“We have had a strong
first half to the year,”
said Dunlop Aircraft
Tyres’ chairman, Ian
Edmondson. “Travel
Service Airlines is the
latest in a number of
carriers that have
placed new orders, not
only in Europe but in
Asia Pacific and the
Americas as well.
“With more than
4,500 Boeing 737NGs
in service, this is one
of the most successful
airliners of all time and
it is reassuring that
major operators like
Travel Service Airlines recognise the low cost of ownership that our tyres provide.”
Vipal´s President, Arlindo Paludo received an important recognition for the company’s international market participation: the 2013 Export Award. Given by the ADVB, a key trade association based in the city of Porto Alegre, the awards highlight the work of the main exporting companies from the state of Rio Grande do Sul in a variety of categories. The ceremony took place on July 8th. Vipal won an award in the Market Diversification category, which rewards the most
its 40th anniversary in 2013, is responsible for supplying every continent, its main markets being Latin America, Europe and the United States. The company’s total export revenue in 2012 amounted to USD 110 million.
In addition to constantly participating in the sector’s most important international trade fairs, Vipal has dedicated one of its three factories in Brazil to export production. It also studies and keeps a close eye on the cultures of
Arlindo Paludo receives the 2013 Export Award from Renato Malcon, President of the Exporters Association
Dunlop’s Ian Edmondson is delighted with the new contract
outstanding companies on those terms in 2012.
According to Mr. Paludo, “This award is one of the fruits of Vipal’s 40 year history. We have always bet on developing products featuring high quality and technology, and have never set environmental preservation aside. It’s a great pleasure to see important competitions such as the Export Awards recognising that.”
Brazil is, in fact proud, to be the world's main exporter of tyre repair products and this title is essentially due to Borrachas Vipal. A South American leader and one of the world's most important tyre retreading product manufacturers, the company, which is celebrating
markets where it operates to develop specific products.
As a result, Vipal holds a strong position in many countries, accomplishing elevated participation rates in extremely demanding markets like Europe, North America and Latin America. Vipal has 3,000 employees and in addition to its Brazilian factories, owns distribution centers in Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Australia, the United States (one in Florida and another in Virginia), Mexico and Colombia. It also maintains branches in eight other locations: Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Australia, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Vipal Overseas (Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia).
China remains an enigma, despite years of investment and a growing free market in the countr y, many industr y sectors remain difficult to access nformation about. Retrreading is one such sector. Whilst the industr y remains small by comparison to the new tyre industry, it is
less than 20 of them had an annual production of more than 100,000 units in China in 2012. With the yearly increase of automobile reserves in China, the volume of scrap tyres generated has kept growing by over 10 per cent annually and scrap tyres have
New China Retread Sector Overview Available
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become a major source of solid waste pollution. There are many ways of recycling tyres and retreading is one of the important methods for extending tyre life. Compared with new tyres, retreaded tyres consume fewer resources and are sold at lower prices. However, the overall development of the Chinese tyre retreading industr y lags behind that of the new tyre industry due to many special reasons.
Firstly, Chinese consumers usually
Birmingham, UK-based Dunlop Aircraft Tyres, has landed a long- term contract to provide new and retreaded tyres to Czech Republic carrier Travel Service Airlines.
The tyres will support Travel Service Airlines’ fleet of 23 Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft, as
well as four B737NGs operating for its low-cost subsidiary SmartWings.
Dunlop, the world’s only specialist aircraft tyre manufacturer, will supply tyres for the nose and main wheels of the aircraft, which operate on routes
growing and
volumes are
high compared
to many other
markets. In
August the
Bharat Book
Bureau
presented a new
report entitled
'China Tire
Retreading
Industry -
Overview and
Forecast to 2017'.
According to the
publication, the output volume of retreaded tyres in 2012 was 18 million units, increasing by more than 10 per cent over 2011 and the market scale exceeded CNY 6 billion. However, the market penetration rate of the Chinese tyre retreading industr y is rather low. According to incomplete statistics, although there are about 500 regular tyre retreading enterprises and a number of small workshops in China, retreading over 30 million tyres annually,
Chinese retreading is developing fast, this Hong Kong-based retreader produces almost 30,000 retreads per year
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