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around 300 retread plants in Argentina producing a total of 68,000 retreads per month, which gives a new tyre to read ration of 1:0.85. A key priority for ARAN, said Larocca, was currently to work on the ongoing homologation of plants according to INTI standards. Following a presentation from ABR on the structure of Brazil’s national retreading association, Daniel Rojas Enos, the Director of the Chilean retread association ARNEC gave an update on his national market. According to Rojas, Chilean retreaders currently manufacture 211,000 retreads per annum, compared to a new tyre market in the region of 700,000 units. According to Rojas, a key barrier to the expansion of the retreading market is a continuing lack of regulation on the import of new tyres.
Hernando Diez Vargas of the Colombian Association ANRE explained that the total production of the Colombian retreading industry was 62,060 units per month, manufactured by a total of 82 retreaders. 47 per cent of production was in the capital, Bogota. 35 companies are members of ANRE and they account for ca. 39,000 per month. These include two of the country’s largest retreaders,
Cundinamarca and Antioquia, who make up 48 per cent and 24 per cent of member production respectively. The Uruguayan Retreaders Association CURN was also present in the form of Mauricio Labadie, who explained that there were currently 10 retread plants in Uruguay accounting for 78,614 units per annum.
Following the presentations by the national Associations, there was a degree of discussion about voting rights within the Association
including suggestions to set up a system of supplier membership for tread rubber and machinery suppliers. It was proposed that each member country gets one vote, with the materials suppliers and the equipment suppliers getting a single block vote each. ALARNEU’s next meeting is scheduled for April next year and will take place in Punto dell’este in Uruguay.
Julio Cesar Larocca from ARAN recives his membership plaque
David Stevens from TRIB attended the ALARNEU meeting as a guest and gave a presentation on the current
state of the US retread market
cost of ownership” approach to fleet tyre management.
Next to present was Julio Cesar Larocca from ARAN, who gave an update on the retreading industry in Argentina. According to Larocca the market for new truck tyres in Argentina was in the region of one million new tyres per annum, 80 per cent of which are radials. There are