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Service Tire Truck Centers Purchases Highlands
Tire & Service
the association’s 18- member board.
“We are excited to welcome these new members to the TIA board of directors and look forward to their contributions in helping the association become an even more valuable resource to members and to the tire industry as a whole,” said Roy Littlefield, TIA CEO.
Bethlehem, PA based Service Tire Truck Centers (STTC) has announced the acquisition of Highlands Tire & Service (HTS) with three commercial locations and a Michelin Retread Technologies (MRT) retread plant. Founded in 1943 and continually operated by the Highlands family, HTS of
locations aligns with our growth strategy and gives us the opportunity to bring our industry-leading services to more fleet customers. With the Highlands MRT retread plant, we’ll be able to support our growth with better turnaround time while maintaining our high-quality standards. All of Highlands
Tim Bevier
Travis Glidden
TRIB Partners with DKE Enterprises to Promote Retreading in California
The Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau (TRIB) has joined forces with DKE Enterprises Inc., who was awarded the California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) Retread Tire Services Contract (DRR19084) on July 23, 2020. TRIB, DK Enterprises, and TRIB’s assembled team of industry professionals across the US will provide the expertise to fulfill the scope of the Contract.
Through this multi-year Retread Tire Services Contract, TRIB and DK Enterprises
will assist
CalRecycle in
increasing the use
of retreaded tyres
through effective
education and
training for
potential retread
users as well as
providing relevant
research
information to
business and
government
policy decision
makers.
The Contract and
TRIB’s efforts are designed primarily to: 1) effectively use end- of-life resources; 2) reduce greenhouse gas emissions; 3) reduce tyre disposal and 4) pursue a demand-driven, sustainable, and diversified approach for retread tyre market development in California.
“TRIB has been working with CalRecycle for a number of years to educate various state agencies about the environmental and economic benefits of retreading" said TRIB Managing Director,
David Stevens. “Through this Contract and our partnership with DK Enterprises, we will now be able to expand our efforts to help drive increased retread tyre adoption in California as well as helping California retreaders to continue to grow and expand their businesses."
“DK Enterprises has been working as a contractor and subcontractor to CalRecycle since 2007 in new and existing tyre-derived product and market development. A retread tyre is the highest reuse of a tyre in
the hierarchy of tyre recycling” said DK Enterprises President, Denise Kennedy. “This Contract includes evaluating the potential for certain market segments to use retread tyres, developing an education and training video and digital market collateral, providing education and training webinars, and identification of what standardised testing is necessary to objectively evaluate the attributes of tyre wear performance and the rolling resistance of a retread tyre.”
Carlisle, PA was one of the first MRT retreading plants in North America. The three PA locations are expected to offer more coverage to STTC’s customer base and more opportunities for STTC’s associates. “It’s an exciting time for STTC,” said Walt Dealtrey, President and CEO of STTC. “The addition of the three
commercial business employees have joined STTC and the customer conversion has been very positive.” STTC now expands to 53 commercial service & mechanical locations, 4 MRT retread plants and 1 Oliver retread plant located throughout 8 Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states.
TIA Elects Five Board Members
The Tire Industry Association (TIA) has elected five members to its board of directors. Four will serve three-year terms and the fifth will serve a two-year term filling the vacancy created when Jim Pangle of Fountain Tire was elected secretary of the board earlier this year.
The directors elected to three-year terms are: Scott Weeden - Barnwell House of Tires, Central Islip, N.Y., Brad Feeney - TBC Corp., Palm
Beach Gardens, Fla., Brandy Sielaff - Commercial Tire, Meridian, Idaho, and Tim BeVier – Technical Rubber Co., Johnstown, Ohio. Elected to a two-year term is Travis Glidden - Stellar Industries Inc., Garner, Iowa.
The new directors will take office Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, during the annual membership meeting held via Zoom. They will join an additional 13 directors to make up
Brad Feeney Brandy Sielaff
Scott Weeden
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