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COMPANY PROFILE
Salvadori’s Bigger View
The Salvadori team ready to serve the retread industry
Salvadori Srl has been in the tyre retreading business for over 30 years, diversifying its offer and witnessing the market’s ups and downs. In recent years the tyre retreading industry in Europe has been suffering such a crisis and has sadly been shrinking. Salvadori, however, is still looking at the market positively and
differentiation strategy and on-field research. Since, for the past couple of years, Salvadori has been focusing also on the mining industry, and specifically on conveyor belt repairs and developing its line of splicing tools. While getting closer to the mining environment, the realisation was how huge the demand for these
product line.
The company is already offering specific tools that can be used on these gigantic tyres, such as: customised OTR envelopes, its best-
seller extruder gun, which has a dedicated model for OTR tyres, new and more resistant E.M. gouge, an engraving knife etc. From an ethical point of view, retreading OTR Tyres is a conscious choice that will help companies save money and help the environment by delaying the time when these giant tyres will have to be disposed of (although Salvadori has a solution for that as well).
Furthermore, mining
operations need
assistance when it comes
to tyre and wheel service. Monitoring the tyre’s
status with the right
instruments, like TPMS
(which Salvadori is now
offering) and intervening
promptly with the best
tools, like the bead
breaker, can extend fleet
life.
Salvadori Bead Breakers
For several years now, Salvadori has marketed its bead breaker line, with nine variants for different tyre types, tyre sizes and rim pieces. With a high-quality made in Italy product, simple to use and light to
handle, the company has addressed world-wide demand and is looking for new opportunities. One of the strengths of Salvadori is the capability to offer customised solutions to its customers and fulfill their different requests. Salvadori offers a comprehensive after-sales repair service and a complete range of spare parts, listed in the catalogue schematic. Furthermore, on its YouTube channel, people can watch tutorial videos showing the bead breaker’s main functions.
Most of Salvadori’s bead breakers can be used on agricultural and earthmover tyres, facilitating the on-site service, where operators are at a mining site and need a portable tool which is also versatile.
What the future holds
For the second half of the year, the Italian company has already a full schedule that will see its sales team engaged in different trade shows: from Indonesia to Dubai, and from Florida to France. Salvadori is already thinking about what to do next.
With reference to its increasing attention to the mining Industry, the plans are to take part in more mining shows, while keeping on exhibiting at the main retreading ones such as The Tire Cologne, in May 2018, and probably also in South Africa.
OTR envelopes now available from Salvadori
believes in its recovery, the question facing the company, however, is: “What should we do to keep growing? And how to react to a more and more competitive marketplace with a non-indifferent number of players?” Salvadori says its answer has been: “think bigger”, meaning: focus on a market segment that has a lot of potential: i.e. OTR tyre service and retreading.
The choice was driven by two main factors: Salvadori’s
products is, and the enormous number of OTR Tyres in the world. Furthermore, many retreading companies have already switched or added OTR tyre retreading to their process. Hence, Salvadori made the decision to promote specific tools for this market, which are somehow different or have slightly different specifications from those usually used in tyre retreading. The company is now studying what articles could be introduced as an addition to its
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