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NEWS EXTRA
Vipal Appoints
New Dealer in Turkey
Vipal Rubber has announced the appointment of Yavuz Lastik K aplama as its latest dealer in the Turkish market, adopting Vipal's identification and products as their main line. Yavuz, founded in 1989, retreads tyres for several types of vehicles, including trucks, buses, trailers and tractors, as well as providing repair and other services. Headquartered the city of Kayseri, in the middle of Turkey, not far from
Ömer Kesinci, owner of Yavuz Lastik Kaplama, professed himself to be ver y pleased with the new partnership, as it opens up a number of opportunities in the Turkish market due to the high quality and technology of the products and Vipal's
deliver y capacity throughout Europe.
The union was also celebrated by Ali Gümüş, Retread Sales Manager at Tatko: “I have known Mr Ömer for a long
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safety-critical nuts and bolts in its website and is looking to promote them to its customers in Italy.
Checkpoint is the original creator of the loose nut indicators, with 30 years of
experience, the British company has developed and designed four product categories: indicators, retainers, maintenance, and security for six different sectors and applications.
Ankara, the company is a partner of the Vipal distributor in Turkey, Tatko Lastik, part of Tatko Tyre Group, which has maintained a successful partnership with Vipal for over 10 years. Tatko is a leading company in the Turkish tyre sector, with a vast experience in tyre sales and production, manufacturing a wide range of products, such as; passenger, light-truck, farm and loader tyres.
time, and it is rewarding to see the solidification of this partnership, which is based in trust and in the good work we have been doing together.” “On behalf of Vipal, I would like to welcome Yavuz and also congratulate the work of Tatko, our long time partner, who certainly worked hard for this union to be consolidated”, added Frederico Schmidt, General Manager of Vipal in Europe.
Lithuanian logistics operator Girteka Logistics were recently presented with the Retread Industry Fleet Award which they won as part of the inaugural Recircle Awards. The award was presented to Mindaugas
Pasilauskas, Transport Asset Management Director at Girteka by Marangoni Area Manager Daniel Brichta during the latter’s most recent visit to Girteka’s headquarters in Vilnius.
Girteka operates one of the biggest and most modern truck fleets in Europe, paying particular attention to sustainability issues. The company has been regularly using retreaded tyres for many years with the goal of
reducing CPK and mainly use retreaded tyres made with Marangoni's RINGTREAD System by local retreader and long-term Marangoni partner, Energija UAB.
Girteka Presented with Retread Industry Fleet Award
VM Rubber is the New Official Distributor in Italy for Checkpoint
At the starting of October, a meeting between Matteo Lapi, Checkpoint’s Business Development Manager for Italy and Pablo Versini and Camilla Raffaelli, from VM Rubber, officialised a new distribution agreement between the two
companies, which sees the Rovereto based company appointed as official distributor of Checkpoint’s well-known loose wheel nut indicators for the Italian market.
VM Rubber will now add a selection of the wide variety of
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