ST. LOUIS (July 8, 2016) — Community Tire Retreading has donated the $5,000 it won at the North American Tire & Retread Expo's (NATRE) retread apparance contest to a variety of causes, including the ...

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Two congressional Democrats from northeast Ohio want to incentivize consumers to purchase retreads as a way to encourage buying American made tires and promote jobs at retreading ...

MEXICO, Mo. — Marvin Bozarth, a retread industry mainstay for the better part of six decades, died Sept. 1 at the Missouri Veterans Home in Mexico. He was 85. Considered one of the retreading industry ...

In the early 1990s, the American Retreaders Association, which preceded ITRA, believed that hands-on training led by an experienced instructor was the best way to teach what was then a much more ...

Retread giant Bandag’s recent announcement to reduce the headcount of its U.S. workforce by 15% and freeze pension plans for U.S. and Canadian workers reflects the new competitiveness of the retread ...

Retreaders inspect casings to determine their suitability for retreading. Well-maintained and properly repaired casing will go on to fight another day. If retreaded tires are such a bad idea, why do ...

Retreading, recapping, or remolding is the process of removing the worn-out treads of an old tire and replacing them with new ones. The treads are the grooved parts that touch the ground and will wear ...

In the mold cure process, uncured, untreaded rubber is applied to the casing in much the same way as in the precure process. Since tires typically represent a fleet’s biggest maintenance expense, and ...

Retreads account for about half of all the truck tires on the road today, according to Michelin Americas Truck Tires and Oliver Rubber, which it acquired in 2007. “Retreading is paramount to our ...

The disposal of tires represents a significant burden on the environment, so companies like Marangoni developed methods to recycle and reuse old tires. Watch how retreading machines make old tires ...