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KRAIBURG Austria has announced the addition of two new employees to strengthen their product management and sales teams. 

Go Energy is an Italmatic Group subsidiary tasked with developing high technology machinery to handle the retreading of tyres from car up to 63”. The company has developed three patented technologies for buffing, regrooving and the repair of craters and imperfections in tyres.

During March, Continental carried out its first onboarding integration programme at the FM Pneus de Várzea Paulista retread plant. 

Tipler recently carried out sales and product training for the commercial team of Marques Pneus, from Sumaré/SP.

The deadline for nominating candidates for the 2022 Tire Industry Association (TIA) Board of Directors is May 9. The association is seeking nominations for four Board positions that will become open in November 2022.  

A new retread site commenced operation at the beginning of March in the district of Gurdaspur, located in the Northern Indian state of Punjab. “This is also the first retreading unit in the whole district,” informed Ishaan Sharma, Director, K K Construction.

Valebridge Media Services (VMS), the Crewe, UK and Madrid, Spain-based media services agency, has announced the winners of the 2022 Recircle Awards, the global industry awards event recognising sustainable innovation, production processes, management and services within the tyre retreading and recycling sectors.

B&J Rocket has introduced a comprehensive, new 2022 product catalogue in conjunction with the company’s 80th anniversary. 

Vipal has completed a training programme with GVT Pneus, a member of the Vipal Authorised Network. During the training session, completed on March 10th, employees of the Paranavai/PR based retreader were able to update their knowledge on one of the key topics involving tyre retreading, namely the Choice of Tread Designs.

On Easter Monday, the long-time former Managing Director of Marangoni Retreading Systems Deutschland GmbH, Klaus Zimmermann, passed away at the age of 83.