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VEGA TYRES: NEW JKRC RETREADER IN HYDERABAD
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A new retread site has opened as a JKRC outlet in the outskirts of Hyderabad, Capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. The site commenced production in the middle of 2021, when the second wave of the pandemic ebbed in the country and markets started opening up.
“Production levels are still low at 200 tyres per month, but business is slowly improving. We hope that production will further picks-up as the market is coming back to normal now,” said Shiva Prasad, Director, Vega Tyre Industries.
The owner has 15 years of experience working with Hyderabad- based Fortune Tyres, one the most modern retreading plants in the country previously owned by Vamshi Rubber Limited.
The clean and modern site is installed with a monorail system and operates on a 6-tyre autoclave, buffer, builder, inspection spreader and skiving machine etc, procured from JK. The unit consumes 3-4 tons of tread rubber each month. Based about 25 km in the suburbs of Hyderabad, the plant caters to customers within a radius of 100 km of the plant.
On the subject of plans to increase production, Prasad emphasized, “We are targeting to increase production by 10% every quarter. Our main focus remains on quality instead of increasing volumes.
Once fleets identify us with quality, business comes automatically. We are convincing small fleets to get their tyres retreaded at our modern retread plant using the best of machinery, a trained workforce and branded tread rubber. We have been able to
MATA RANI TRANSPORT COMMISSIONS RETREAD PLANT
Odisha based coal transporter Mata Rani Transport has an- nounced the commissioning of its own retread unit in January this year to serves four open cast coal mines in Kulda, Gurjan- bahal, Basundhara and Manoharpur.
“We have been dependent on franchisees functioning in the open market but decided to install a captive retread unit to overcome delayed deliveries,” informed Manoj Padhi, Transport & Repair Head at Mata Rani Transport.
The transporter is using tread rubber under the Indag Cham- pion brand launched last year, in particular the MST mining pa- ttern, which has been designed to prevent tyre failure due to cut-chipping in mixed road usage.
The plant itself was sourced from Rajmahaal Tyre Equipment (Coimbatore) and is installed with a monorail, a 5+1 autoclave along with buffer, builder, inspection spreader, envelop expan- der and cut repair machine.
“Since it is a captive unit, the plant retreads 200-250 tyres per month from our own vehicles, consuming about 3-4 tons of tread rubber,” said Padhi. “We have no plans to serve the open market as we are too preoccupied with maintaining our own
carrying capacity of 28, 36, 45, 52 & 54 tons respectively. The transporter supplies more than 200,000 tons of coal in a month.
Captive retread unit at Mata Rani Transport
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