Page 14 - RB-76-16-1

NORTH AMERICA
Marangoni Opens New Dealers in Florida
and Tennessee
continuously strive to find quality products for our customers. We are truly excited about the opportunity to represent Ringtread because, it is a
premium quality, double contoured, spliceless, American made precured tread that will provide our customers with the best retread experience.”
more than 36,000 retreads per year. Jonathan Ramdhan owner of Tire Service, LLC said; “Marangoni has a strong presence in the North Florida and South Georgia markets and we are excited about servicing existing Ringtread customers as
well as converting lots of new fleets to the best retread system available.”
Quality Tire & Service in Munford, TN is now also a member of the Marangoni Tread North America family of independent retreaders and will be offering Marangoni’s signature brand Ringtread to the greater Memphis area.
Quality Tire & Service has been serving the West
Tennessee area since 1996 with services that include; commercial new and retread tyres, service and repair, 24/7 commercial on site tyre service, fleet checks, and a complete modern retread plant with a capacity of more than
35,000 retreads per year.
James Millican, owner of Quality Tire & Service said, “Like our name suggests, we must
Conti Grows LifeCycle Network
Marangoni Tread North America has announced that Tire Service, LLC. in Jacksonville Fl. is now a member of the Marangoni Tread North America family of independent dealers and will be offering Marangoni’s signature brand Ringtread as well as Unitread precure treads to the North Florida and South Georgia markets.
Tire Service, LLC. provides North
Florida and South Georgia with services that include commercial tyre sales, tyre repair, fleet checks, towing, and a complete modern retread plant with a capacity of
Continental Tire the Americas L.L.C.’s Commercial Vehicle Tire group has expanded its ContiLifeCycle retread
network to a dozen dealerships in North America with the signing of two licensees in the
U.S. and one in
Canada.
The new
independents
to join the
network are
Inter City
Retreading Inc. of
Elizabeth, N.J., CMC Tire
Inc. of St. George, Utah, and Quality Tire Service Ltd. of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which was reported in the previous issue of Retreading Business. Conti now has 10 licensees in the U.S. and two in Canada. It also operates five plants in the U.S. under its BestDrive L.L.C. subsidiary.
Inter City Retreading converted its 20,000-sq.-ft.
retread plant in
Elizabeth in August
to the Conti system from the Michelin
Retread Technologies system, which Inter City had used since 2000. The plant has the capacity
to produce 78,000 retreads each year.
Inter City Retreading President Neil
Erbesh said, “I believe our
partnership with Continental will fulfil the clear
need for
reliable and high quality
retreading in our market. The
combination of Inter City Retreading’s unrivalled
craftsmanship with Continental’s portfolio of proven tread designs and rubber compounds will be an excellent match for our
customers.”
Out West, CMC Tire set up a 25,000-sq.-ft. plant in Las Vegas capable of producing 24,000 retreads annually with 18 employees., according to Conti. CMC had primarily been an OTR retreader and this deal brings them into the truck tyre sector as a retreader for the first time.There is an outline plan to double the capacity at CMC as the business develops.
Mike Morast, co-owner of CMC Tire said, “The partnership is critical for our aggressive growth plans and is perfectly aligned with ContiLifeCycle’s aggressive growth strategy. With all new equipment that includes the latest retread technology, our partnership brings a proven retread product to the Southwest market.”