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TURKEY
ReCap Machinery and Engineering Launches Activities
machinery range and do not have to sacrifice their production quality.” The second hand machinery and equipment range offered by ReCap includes all kinds of retreading and supplementary machinery in good condition and aims to create an additional value to tyre retreaders. The company also operates a part- exchange system allowing retreaders
to both decrease their investment cost whilst also renewing their machinery.
Also available are technical services available in three separate packages – a one-time Free Technical Service within the machine’s warranty period, regular technical service and maintenance contracts and a machine refurbishment service
Marangoni Expands in Turkey
In a major move aimed at expanding its worldwide market share, Marangoni Retreading Systems have announced a significant development to its Turkish business interests.
firm’s new offices and logistics warehouse in Istanbul following the move from Izmir in the west of the country.
He comments: “Beside the new outsourced storage facility, we
Through its subsidiary Marangoni Kauçuk, the company has established a new warehouse and Head office in Istanbul to take advantage of the Turkish city’s strategic importance to the tyre retreading industry.
The move places Marangoni nearer its’ own dealer network in the country, and will also have significant logistical advantages and greatly benefit distributors due to the site’s prime location spanning two continents.
Turkey has the sixth biggest European retread market, and is second only to Germany in the cold retreading technology sector. With their successful Ringtread and Unitread ranges, Marangoni’s Turkish sales subsidiary Kauçuk Ticaret enjoys an impressive share of the domestic market which is set to grow further following the relocation.
Nejat Dagdemir, General Manager of Marangoni Kauçuk since 2014, when the company expanded their Turkish operation, will be heading the
take advantage of a complete inland delivery service with warehousing capability in 15 cities across Turkey. Our major investment on an advanced warehouse management system supported by radio frequency communications and automatic ID technologies, such as RFID, will improve the service to our customers.”
Nejat Dagdemir, General Manager of Marangoni Kauçuk
This month sees the launch of a new retreading machiner y company baesd in Eskisehir, Turkey. ReCap Machinery and Engineering has been established by Metin Ileri, Serkan Uyar and Halil Parlak, three engineers with more than ten years’ experience in the retreading sector. According to Ileri, who has experience both with Akar Makina and the Tatko Group, the company
precured tread machinery range includes a fully automatic buffing machine, extruder building machine, building machine, autoclaves along with other required machinery and equipment used in a typical retreading plant. The company also offers a range of OTR equipment for both precured and cut-tread machinery from 25’’ to 63’’ OTR tyres including a fully automatic buffing machine, an extrusion and regrooving machine, builders, autoclaves along with other machinery and equipment for this segment. The company’s first project is a Cut-Tread
regrooving machine for up to 35’’ tyres to be delivered to a tyre manufacturer’s own retreading plant in Turkey.
ReCap says the basis of its new business is to offer a new business model for the retreading sector, which the company calls TBM (Triple Business Model). This focuses on three core elements – brand new machiner y, second hand
Halil Parlak (Right), Serkan Uyar (Left) Metin Ileri (Centre)left
has now begun operations and is in the process of setting up a production plant in Turkey at the juncture point between Europe and Asia.
The company says it aims to provide a range of retreading machinery which combines good quality and an affordable price level to provide the maximum contribution to the tyre retreading sector.
ReCap’s truck and bus tyre
machiner y and a technical services package.
Ileri explains: “In the past, tyre retreaders had to either invest big budgets on machiner y and then tr y to amortise their investments in tough business conditions, or they had to work with unorganised machiner y suppliers and risk their production quality. Now retreaders can get the opportunity to have economical solutions and quality machiner y through ReCap’s
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