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RECIRCLE AWARDS 2021
Best Retreading Equipment & Accessory Supplier
In recognition of the best supplier of manufacturing equipment and/or accessories/consumables for the tyre retreading industry in terms of innovation, product quality and service.
Central Marketing
Central Marketing, based in Colonial Heights, VA, has been a leading distributor of tyre retreading equipment and accessories in North America for the past 35 years. The company is the nominated agent in North America for a number of key equipment and accessory brands, including CIMA, MAE, Matteuzzi, SDS and VMI.
Tech Europe
Tech Europe is the European subsidiary of
Tech Rubber Company (TRC), based in
Johnstown, Ohio. The company is a global
leader in tyre repair field offering products
such as repairs, carbide cutters & wheels,
envelopes, expanding chucks, buffing blades, grinding stones, as well as supporting chemicals and tools such as extruder guns. The company owns several key brands including Tech, Pang Industrial and Salvadori, and has establish a close working relationship with key players such as Bridgestone-Bandag, Goodyear and Kal Tire amongst others.
TRM
TRM is the Marangoni Group’s retreading
machinery division, offering a full range of retreading equipment for both hot and cold retreading including inspection, equipment, shearography machines, buffers, cushion gum and precured tread builders, tread and sidewall extruders, curing presses and autoclaves, as well as the capability of putting together turnkey plants.
Vipal Machinery
Vipal Machinery, formed in 2015, is the
fast-growing division within Vipal Rubber
responsible for developing equipment for
the tyre retreading sector. At this stage, the
company’s equipment range consists primarily of buffing and building equipment, including the now established VR01 Smart Buffer, with sales being achieved primarily in Latin America, North America and Oceania.
VMI
The VMI Group, which is currently celebrating its 75th anniversary, is a major supplier of equipment and technology for new tyre manufacturing and retreading industries. In the retreading sector, the company is best known for its RETRAX extrusion and tread building technology, which it acquired when it acquired AZ several years ago. This technology is used in the majority of truck and bus tyre retread plants in the USA and Europe. The company also has subsidiaries operating in South America and Asia.
Best Tread Rubber Supplier
In recognition of the best manufacturer or supplier of tread rubber, both precure and mould cure, to the global tyre retreading industry in terms of innovation, product quality and service.
Goodway Integrated Industries Berhad
Goodway Integrated (GIIB), founded in 1990, is among the best known of the Malaysian manufacturers of tread rubber and markets its Supercool tread brand to over 60 countries worldwide. With technology derived from an earlier joint venture with Kraiburg, has a strong network of dealers in South East Asia, the Middle East and East Africa in particular, but maintains a profile across the globe.
Kraiburg
Kraiburg Austria, based in Geretsberg in Upper
Austria, has been producing materials for the
retreading industry since 1965, forming part of
the wider Kraiburg Group of companies. The
company is a leader within the European market both in terms of market share and quality positioning, maintaining a strong presence among independent retreaders both in the traditional Western European markets and well as in the newer markets in Eastern Europe.
Marangoni
Marangoni is a world-renowned brand
leader in the retreading industry, and a
major global supplier of tread rubber both
for mould cure and precure processes. The
company’s Ringtread System has been
recognized as an innovation that has helped position the company as a quality leader. The Marangoni brand is a market leader in Europe. However, the company also has manufacturing facilities in Brazil and the USA where strong market positions have also been gained, in addition to subsidiaries and joint ventures in other global markets, in particular South Africa, Australia and India.
Maxrubber Industries Sdn Bhd
Maxrubber Industries Sdn Bhd, based in Klang,
Malaysia, is family-owned business which has become one of the fastest growing tread rubber suppliers in the international market with clients located around the world. The company introduced a fully segmented brand line up in 2017, has recently invested in a new tread press, which will allow the company to target growth in the European market. The company is also an active supplier of tread rubber to the OTR market.
Vipal
Vipal Rubber, based in Nova Prata and Porto
Alegre, Brazil, has established itself as one of the
largest tread rubber manufacturers in the world.
With 13 distribution centres spread across
strategic points of the globe, it is present in over
90 countries and in all continents. It is the undisputed leader in South America with over 300 authorised retreaders, and also has a strong position with independent retreaders in the USA,
Europe and Australasia. To supply this market
Vipal has four factories in Brazil as well as a
strategic manufacturing co-operation in Spain.
IV Recircle Awards 2021