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NEWS EXTRA
11th CITEXPO is Biggest Yet
After rising to become a leading showcase for the Chinese tyre industry over the past 10 years, the 11th edition of China International Tire Expo will be held at Shanghai Everbright Convention and Exhibition Centre on September 4, 5 & 6, 2013.
According to Mr. Wilko Fong, Managing Director of Reliable International Exhibition Services Co., Ltd., he expects the number of exhibitors of CITEXPO 2013 will be over 320, occupying 24,000 square metres of exhibition space in the three full halls of the Shanghai Everbright Convention and Exhibition Centre. Industry leading brand names such as Cooper, Double Coin, Stamford, Techking, Triangle and many domestic and foreign manufacturers and suppliers in the tyre related industry, including tyres, tubes, wheels, tyre and wheel maintenance equipment, tyre accessories,
tyre production products...etc, will showcase their latest products and services to the buyers coming from over 100 countries.
The number of booked stands and floor space has
already broken records for the history of the show. And it is encouraging to know that CITEXPO has been growing every year over the past ten years since its first show launched in 2003, this against a background of global economic crisis. The show could become one of the busiest shows in the worldwide tyre industry not only because it is held in the largest tyre production and consumption market of China, but also because the highly internationalised buyers at this show are of high quality and a quantity that exceeds the exhibitors’ expectations.
Mr. Fong believes that CITEXPO 2013 will continue to provide an excellent and important platform for the worldwide tyre industry professionals to meet and that it will create tremendous business opportunities.
Marangoni Opens a New Plant in Latin America
Marangoni Retreading
Systems has announced the inauguration of a new manufacturing plant in
Argentina, in the city of
Alvear, Santa Fe. This new
plant brings the total
number of sites operating
around the world and featuring RINGTREAD lines to five, all part of the Marangoni Group division specialising in cold retreading. Marangoni Argentina S.A. currently has a market share of 30 per cent, which makes it a leader in the Argentine retreading market. It operates a network of 11 authorised Ringtread dealers covering the entire country, as well as numerous other customers for the marketing of Unitread and Precauch strips and for business
development in the Spanish- speaking countries of South America.
The opening of this new factory, replacing the previous, smaller, plant located in Rosario, required important investment in terms of infrastructure and equipment: the 4500 sq.m structure is located on
a site covering 10,000 sq.m. The objectives of the new plant in terms of productivity and quality include bringing an improvement in service while at the same reaching a 20 per cent growth in volumes over the next two years, in all Spanish-speaking South American countries.
Néstor Llaino, Vice-President of Marangoni Argentina S.A., during the inauguration of the new plant, underlined the three main benefits that retreading can bring to the
country: “tyre retreading extends casing life, allows lower mileage costs, thus keeping expenses down, something that is extremely important in a country where 80 per cent of transport is by road, and, last but not least, retreading helps protect the environment”.
The Llaino family, minority stakeholders in
Marangoni Argentina S.A., has, since the early 1990s, been one of the drivers in the development of the rubber sector in Argentina: firstly through the distribution company Quimica del Caucho S.A., the mixing company Causer S.A. and subsequently with the retreading materials production plant Distribuir S.A. in Rosario, now Marangoni Argentina S.A.. Massimo De Alessandri, Marangoni SpA CEO, highlighted how this new opening represents “the third most important step made by the Marangoni Group in Latin America: the first was the start of operations in Brazil, subsequently the partnership with the Llaino family, and now this new plant in Argentina".
The objective of this new plant is further growth of the Marangoni Group’s position in the Latin American retreading market: forecasts are for an initial production of 5000 tonnes annually to be increased over the years, with additional extensions to be made until production capacity has doubled.