Tires are a major expense for truck fleets. Replacement tires are often the second-highest expense after fuel. But there are strategies to make tires last longer, reducing the expense to replace them.

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 ...

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Continental Tire the Americas (CTA) has opened its Retread Solutions Development Center, a unit focused on retread process improvements and technology development. The goal of the ...

Dublin, May 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Retread Tire Market, By Vehicle Type (Commercial Vehicle, Passenger Car & OTR Vehicle), By Retread Process (Cold Process & Hot Process), By Region, ...

If retreaded tires are such a bad idea, why do North American retreaders sell more than 15 million of the things every year? More to the point, if they are so unreliable and failure-prone, why do ...

•Retreading contributes to the productive life cycle of a tire using fewer materials•Less energy is required to build a retread tire•Conti Urban an urban concept tire will be retreadable Tire Retread ...

AKRON — By most industry metrics, the commercial trucking industry — and by direct association, the commercial tire and retreading sector — is on track for a solid year as the North American economy ...

Mississauga, ON., Dec. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tire quality is an essential part of road safety. When tire tread depth has worn and is no longer adequate for safe transportation, retreading can ...

Low-cost truck tire imports, particularly those from China, have cut into domestic new-tire sales over the past five years. But they’ve had an even more dramatic effect on the U.S. retread tire ...