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The Comerio Ercole Group via its industrial partnership with COMERC International has become a shareholder in the Italian company SASMAC International srl, the owner of the well-known Saspol brand of precured tread presses. The news was announced on October 24, 2022 at the K2022 Exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Pre-Q Galgo Corporation exhibited at the annual OSBMA (Ohio School Bus Mechanics Association) workshop in Columbus, Ohio, on October 18th, 2022. OSBMA works to improve, promote and develop the professional status of school bus mechanics throughout the state of Ohio.

Vipal Rubber has been working closely with British retreader Vaculug for a long period of time now and to celebrate the success of the partnership and Vipal's rich Brazilian history, the companies held, on September 10, the Brazilian Day.

Latin America’s leading tyre and auto parts exhibition, the Latin Tyre & Auto Parts Expo is returning next year to Panama on June 14-16, 2023

Vulcan Vulcap have announced that as of August 25th, 2022, they have obtained the highly coveted IECEE Certification (International Electrical Certification). This certification guarantees that all Vulcan Vulcap products meet the industry’s highest and most scrutinous safety standards.

KRAIBURG Austria has enjoyed a success­ful partnership with the Turkish company Tatko Lastik for over 15 years. The country's largest independent tyre wholesaler distributes approximately three million passenger car tyres and more than 200,000 truck tyres per year, partly through its own sales network, and is therefore considered to be the ideal partner for the Austrian retreading specialist in a retrea­ding market that is characterised, among other things, by a large number of local tread producers and is therefore very competitive.

From 16 to 18 November 2023, Autopromotec is organising a brand new event in Bologna focusing on the energy transition.

During the IAA for Transportation, we had the opportunity to sit down with Goodyear and interview Marc Preedy, Managing Director Truck Replacement Sales Europe and Maciej Szymański, Director of Marketing Commercial Europe and discuss how retreading fits into their overall sustainability and fleet offer, but also the marketing strategies they are taking to dispel those long held myths about the process.

Tamil Nadu based L G Balakrishnan & Bros (LGB) tyre retread subsidiary Super Transport (P) Ltd says it is currently working on a strategy to operate its retread plants to their maximum capacity.

In our recent analysis of Continental’s van tyre offer, Ralf Benack, Head of Fleet Solutions EMEA for Continental spoke glowingly about the potential that could lie ahead for retreading in the last mile delivery sector of the commercial mobility market despite a number of key challenges.