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New Roadgrip to Relocate Inside Durban
tonnes monthly.
The Woodlands Drive based plant caters to customers within 300 km South and 150 km North of Durban. The production increase is mainly due to a new client that needs 200 tyres per month and is likely to want 500 tyres in the next couple of months. Currently, the plant retreads around 1,000 tyres each month. Pechey was full of praise for Bandag, which has stood by his side and lent support to his retreading operation. “Good back-up, plus the best product and service from Bandag
makes all the difference,” he emphasised.
While taking a tour round of the neat and clean plant, a peep at the backyard gave a glimpse of the rejected scrap of Chinese casings. But he was of the view that Chinese tyre makers are also improving the quality of their exports as the rejection rate is coming down to 50 per cent. “Certain Chinese brands have improved their quality in the past few years in order to remove the cheap tag from their brands,” he said.
Durban based New Roadgrip Retreader’s (Pty) Ltd has streamlined its retreading operation and now the next move is to increase production as well as moving inside the city. “We are a bit out of the way. We
Pechey says he has overcome most of the challenges on the operational side and his focus remains on a lean and mean operation to control overheads and the have right people to run the plant. “Now I have good
Clive Pechey of The New Roadgrip Retreader’s (Pty) Ltd
Success for GIIB in Tanzania
In Africa GIIB Rubber has strong relationships with key market players and one of these is Smart Tyres
“We started testing Supercool Retreads in October 2014, and after careful and timely monitoring we have projected a mileage of 90,350 km. With such outstanding results, I am confident that the cost per kilometre (CPK) delivered by these retreads are at least 25 per cent more efficient than being offered by other tyres in Tanzania,” said Mr. Peterson Mutisya, Fleet Manager of Golden
Coach.
“We started using Supercool retreads through the Supercool Franchise, Smart Tyres Ltd, back in September 2014. The mileage delivered by Supercool retreads is easily able to outperform any other tyres available in Tanzania. Furthermore, with hands on tyre management support provided by Smart Tyres we were able to achieve a 30 per cent reduction in CPK (Cost/Kilometre) over a period of 10 months,” Ilyas Khatumbra, General Manager of Swift Motors, stated.
have plans to move inside the city to serve the truck and trailer traffic moving in between Durban and Pietermaritzburg,” said Clive Pechey of New Roadgrip Retreader’s (Pty) Ltd. The distance between Durban and Pietermaritzburg is about 80 km.
people who I can rely on and everything is in the right place. The next move is to hike the production,” he said. The plant consumes on average of 10 tonnes of tread rubber each month and with the hike in production, the consumption is likely to touch 15