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Tesco-Italmatic in Agreement with Raven Engineering
Tesco Italmatic LLC has announced it has signed an agreement with Raven Engineering to market and service the latter’s DVS 1220 Differometric Tire Analyzer. According to Tesco-Italmatic, differometry technology offers many benefits over other types of nondestructive tyre testing such as: less cycle time and less cost to operate, ease of operation with
clearer and easy to understand images, reduced learning curve operator training, automatic Pass/Fail capability reducing operator interoperation, lower acquisition cost and a more rapid return on investment.
Tesco-Italmatic will be displaying the DVS 1220 at the forthcoming North American Tire and Retread
Expo in New Orleans.
building that Green Arc is leasing.” DiCenzo, a Canadian with more than 30 years’ experience in the used tyre, casings and recycling industries, with financial backing from Phoenix Capital Partners, a Toronto venture capital firm, and Bancorp Financial Services Inc., a Vancouver mortgage fund management firm had hoped to create a new type of retreading operation that offered quality retreads that could compete with anything on the market, but focussing on the huge demand for winter tyres in Canada and the northern USA.
With an anticipated $37m investment and 370 jobs proposed, the development of Green Arc would be a real boost to the local economy according to DiCenzo.
DiCenzo wrote in his letter that “for any new business to succeed, it must have a willing host that shares and supports its aspirations to generate new jobs and economic benefits. Any objective observer would conclude that since both the municipal and provincial election, Green Arc has not had the support of the Mayor of St. Marys or the local MPP.”
One of the delays was due to the wait for proper permitting by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change.
Part of that delay was due to DiCenzo’s decade-old issue with the Ministry of Environment over an outstanding $25,000 fine related to a previous business venture. (source:MTD)
Green Arc Delayed
Green Arc Tire, the Canadian operation that proposed to produce 3 million car, light truck and SUV retreads per year at a new plant in St. Mary’s has hit the buffers in what its founder Mike DeCenzo calls a delay. Others suggest that the project was never going to get off the ground in the first place.
According to Mike DiCenzo, the project has met with a less than enthusiastic reception from local politicians and planning officers. However, DiCenzo is adamant that the project will get back on track, if on a scaled down size.
Green Arc has missed its target start date of early 2015 and commentators
suggest that there is some question about what equipment has been installed at the plant. Others say they cannot get their telephone calls answered.
Having promised so much, DiCenzo wrote an open letter to the residents and potential workforce around St. Marys where he blamed the delay on the intransigence and lack of support of local politicians.
This, he claimed forced Arc to scale back the size of the project and number of jobs to be created.
“This uncertain political environment has not instilled confidence in Green Arc’s investors,” Mr. DiCenzo wrote in the letter, “one of whom owns the
Montreal's Public Transport Picks Vipal
Mike DiCenzo (left) shows one of the tyres to St. Mary's Mayor Steve Grose (centre) and Ontario Safety League President Brian Patterson
10 Retreading Business
After a bidding process and a battery of tests with Vipal Rubber Corp.'s V167 tread, the Société de Transport de Montreal (STM), located in Montreal, Canada, will begin retreading its tyres using Vipal products.
Vipal supplies tyres to 90 countries, and its main markets are Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
STM is in charge of public transport in the city of Montreal and surrounding metropolitan regions. The company retreads roughly 350
tyres per month, and from now on will use the V167 tread, a Vipal design marketed only outside Brazil. Vipal says the V167 is a good choice for trucks and buses with radial tires on drive axles and is particularly suitable for powerful, high-torque vehicles and long running times on paved surfaces. The tread also offers good performance on muddy and snowy surfaces.
The public transit company’s fleet numbers 721 buses, and tyre retreading is handled by a retreader owned by the Canadian government.