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Excel to Review Avadi Plant Plan Next Year
tyre retreading machinery and accessories. The company has recently launched an all-electric tyre vulcanising machine. Explaining its features, Jose said, “It is easier to transport the chamber as the motor is inside, maintaining cure time and consuming less power.
Vee Seven has also launched a mould cure chamber for tractors with an electrical system. The mould cure chamber is claimed to eliminate boiler (control pollution) and maintains the right temperature to cure 100 per cent of the time with no failures.
Excel Retreads (India) Pvt Ltd has dropped plans to set up a plant in the Avadi – Ambattur industrial belt due to a shortage of manpower in the Chennai market. “Labour costs have increased over the years, and trained people keep on floating in the retreading sector.
Retreads (India) Pvt Ltd.
When asked about other challenges in the business, he said, “Competition and price are the other major issues faced by the retreading industry.”
On when the scenario is expected to improve, he said, “Things will
settle down in a year. Price correction is expected with the introduction of GST in India. We have no issues with procuring rubber and machinery for the proposed plant. We will likely review the scenario if the labour situation improves. In that case, the second plant will go on line,” Ravichandran explained. The company’s plans were to start a 300- 400 tyre plant in the Avadi- Ambattur belt in Chennai. Around 10,000 tyres are retreaded each month in Chennai.
The Excel plant based at Sholavaram (Chennai) was set up in 2002 and is equipped with two 5 and 3 tyre chambers sourced from
Rajmahaal . The company sources 6 tonnes of tread rubber each month from Hyderabad based Vamshi.
TVS Tread Expanding Network of ‘Selective Retreaders’
C Ravichandran, Director, Excel Retreads (India) Pvt Ltd
It has become difficult to hold trained salemen and workers on the shop floor,” argued C Ravichandran, Director, Excel
Sundaram Industries Private Limited is focusing on expanding its network of ‘Selective Retreaders’ in multiple states across India. Selective Retreaders is kind of franchise model, in which plants that follow certain standards and have credibility in the market could associate with Sundaram Industries. “We control the production process and extend support to such retreaders willing to work with us,” said G Narayanan, CEO, Sundaram Industries Private Limited.
TVS Tread is a part of the Sundaram Industries. It has 21 retreading plants of its own besides 7 Selective Retreaders in the states of Orissa, Gujarat, Haryana, Delhi, Gurgaon and National Capital
expanding the network of Selective Retreaders in the markets where it has no presence. “We are also roping in fleet owners who could get their tyres retreaded either from our own plants or at Selective Retreader outlets in order to improve volumes,” he explained. TVS is manufacturing tread rubber to feed its retread operations and the new retread network. “We have installed capacity of about 1,000 tonnes each month, but we are currently operating at around 50 per cent of the capacity,” he said. The company remains focused on the India market with exports to one customer only. “We have been exporting tread to one Australian customer for the last few years, but enquiries have started pouring in
G Narayanan, CEO, Sundaram Industries Private Limited
Vee Seven Focuses on African Market
Kerala based retread plant machinery manufacturer Vee Seven Engineering has been aggressively supplying equipment in Africa and the Middle East. The Thrissur based company has been
operating in the African market through an agent in the Ugandan Capital Kampala where local retreader Indo-Africa Tyre has been actively promoting and marketing Vee Seven equipment
for quite some time. “We have exported 12 retreading plants in 2016 and have already shipped 15 units this year to Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Nepal and Bangladesh with couple of plants in Bhutan and Egypt in pipeline,” informed Midhun Jose, Director, Vee Seven Engineering. “Our focus is mainly on the India and Africa markets,” he added. Established back in 1982, Vee Seven manufactures and exports a range of pre- cured and mould cure
Midhun Jose, Director, Vee Seven Engineering
Region (NCR). The company offers a wide variety of precure and conventional retreads for the whole range of tyres – both for radial and bias. Apart from commercial tyres, TVS Tread also offers retreading and repair solutions for Off the Road Tyres (OTR).
“We appointed the seven Selective Retreaders in 2016 and our plan is to appoint 10 Selective Retreaders every year for the next 3-4 years,” said Narayanan.
The company is currently
from markets such as South Africa, the Middle East and Philippines in the recent past, and we are considering utilising the idle capacity in these markets,” he explained.
The company is undergoing trials of tread rubber in the various international markets. ‘Trials are going on to analysis the requirements of these markets to accordingly produce the tread rubber,” he said.
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