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MIDAS ORGANISES TECHNICAL TRAINING SEMINAR IN RAJASTHAN
Indian tread manufacturer Midas Treads is continuing to make efforts towards improving retreading standards in the country by helping to update retreaders with information on impending market challenges as well as on new products. of March, which brought all its customers together on a single platform.
“As part of our commitment to improve the quality of retreading in India, we recently held a training seminar in the town of Ajmer to help improve the industry and protect the environment,” said Paulose Varughese, Director, Midas Treads. About 70 retreaders from the central Indian state participated at the day-long event.
According to the Central Road Research Institute, India has added 77,266 km of National Highways (NHs) during the last eight years and has potentially avoided 32.15 million tons of CO2 emissions annually besides saving on fuel costs and tyre usage. Therefore, the changing road
dynamics in India poses a challenge for the industry to adopt best practices in their operations.
For their seminar Midas brought together their knowledge and experience with local retreaders. The seminar covered a
range of topics, including best practices for retreading, quality control, and environmental sustainability. The Kottayam of training is essential to ensure that the retreading industry in India can meet the needs of its customers while also protecting the environment.
FLEECA WINS INNOVATION AWARD FOR TPMS DEVICE
services provider, has been announced as the winner of the ‘Rajiv Gandhi Innovation Award’ for its tyre management services and the design of a Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) for the after- market. The award was announced at a ceremony hosted in Jaipur at the end of March by the Department of Information Technology and Communication (DOIT&C) of the Rajasthan Government. Flee- ca was selected as the top innovative business idea generator in the state’s startup ecosystem.
Fleeca’s TPMS device was introduced for heavy commercial vehi- cles under the name ‘Kawach’ and can be installed in the front and the Pune based premier government owned accreditation agency Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI).
Founder and MD of Fleeca India, Tikam Jain was felicitated by State 7.5 million.
22-23 in terms of revenue,” said Jain, whose company is backed and funded by Bridgestone India.
“Fleeca aspires to expand by three times annually in terms of growth and is expanding its network further by setting-up Fleeca Centres spreading across the country. Our goal is to grow the company by adding Fleeca centres every 20 to 40 kilometres,” he added.
Fleeca India is a tyre management company in the B2B heavy vehi- - chnology to manage the health of the tyres on their trucks. The tech- nology is supported by 1500+ Fleeca Centers along with retreading outlets across the major highways of 18 states in the country.
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