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RETREADING

Pre Cure (Cold)

• Low capital expenditures at producer level
• Close to customer- fast turnaround- reduce cost in stocks
• High degree of flexibility
• Fast to market- cover all tyre sizes at no added cost
• Modern precure appearance equal to new tyre
• Improved wear performance

System evolution

• PRECURE (or Cold) increase steadily market share year by year
• > 70 % of world truck tyre production is precure
• Europe app. 60 % is precure- and growing
• Bandag is the world market leader in retreading truck tyres (+/- 20 000 000 tyres/year)
• Bandag only produce PRECURE TREADS

Why Precure ?

• Endusers get more end more specific transport needs requiring a bigger variety of vehicles types
• This drives tyre size variation. Thus fewer tyres to retread by tyre type!
• Fewer tyres per type increase cost for individual mold cure operations , while precure can split mold investments over the whole market.
• Only sustainable cost alternative for the future
• Performance demands increase - wear/service/reliability
• Environmental demands increase
• Modern precures looks like new tyres
• Big batch precure tread production allows high tech compound solutions, not available to regular mold cure material suppliers
• RESULT: Improved enduser performance
• Proof: Evolution trend and New tyre mfg. interest for precure systems!
• Future tyre legislation will put precure in advantage over mold cure in certification procedures
• ECE 109M
• Noise
• Wet traction
• Rolling resistance
• Mold cure operation will need to certify (= cost) by each operation and product. Precure suppliers will certify for all producing partners. (Cost reduction)
• The Bandag network will have instant access to certified products

Enduser choice

• Enduser is primarily interested in
• cost/km
• reliable products
• fast - reliable service
• lowest cost of ownership ( outsourcing)
• Precure systems ( decentralized) offers advantages in all this area over bigger centralized operations.
• Product performance of precure treads in general higher than average mold cure products.