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SOS Tires to Foray into Passenger Tyre Retreading
tonnes of tread rubber each month in “We intend to dedicate the new plant
Brazil based SOS Tires is further expanding its product portfolio and is looking for equipment to retread passenger car tyres. The firm retreads bus and truck tyres currently, but is now looking to open new opportunities in the passenger car sector.
The retreader has recently set up its second plant in the South Eastern state of Espirito Santo. “We have just opened our second plant and we are planning to start the retreading of
passenger car tyres at the new location,” informed Wagner Azevedo of SOS Tires, speaking at the North American Tire & Retread Expo.
The company finds big opportunities in retreading passenger car tyres. “Brazil is a huge tyre market and all kinds of local and foreign brands are available in the market. Therefore, we are targeting the passenger car tyre retread market,” he observed. The firm retreads around 4,000 tyres per month and consumes around 9
Finland based Nokian Tyres is continuing its focus on expanding its market reach in its specialty area of winter tyres. Russia is among Nokian’s key markets and it continues to be the Finnish company’s growth market. “We have almost doubled our business in Russia. Our customer base has surged from 6 to 11 in the Russian market,” said Ari Maunula, Business Manager, Truck Tyres, in a discussion with Retreading Business at the North American Tire & Tread Expo in New Orleans.
Nokian Tyres has a tyre manufacturing plant in Russia and it has been extensively promoting its
retreading material in that market. “We have been faring strongly on the retreading material side in the Russian market. Russia is a going to be a key market for the near future as it has one of the biggest growth potentials,” he added.
Commenting on the success in the Russian and Scandinavian markets, Maunula stressed, “We continue to enhance our range based customer feedback to ensure we meet user needs along with quick and reliable deliveries.”
Nokian Noktop retreading materials have been developed against the background of a unique insight into
its two plants. The mother plant is located in the Eastern Brazil state of Bahia on the Atlantic coast.
The company caters largely to the North and Eastern part of Brazil, and currently the majority of the company’s truck and bus tyres are retreaded at the first plant with partial production shifted to the new plant.
to passenger car retreading,” said Azevedo.
SOS Tires will volumes of 5,000 passenger retreads per month initially. “We hope to grow at a minimum of 10 per cent annually considering the large passenger car tyre market of Brazil,” he said.
Wagner Azevedo of SOS Tires
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