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Michelin Retread Tyres

Protect your bottom line and the planet with Advantage. The innovative Michelin retread process delivers reliable retreads, designed for your application to help you maximise your tyre assets, saving your business money, and preventing more tyres from ending up in landfill.

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The Michelin Retread Process

When it comes to retreading tires, the Michelin retread process stands out as a trusted and dependable solution. Our process is meticulously designed to deliver reliable retreads that cater specifically to your unique application needs. We understand the importance of maximizing your tire assets, and that’s why we take great care in every step of the retreading process. From selecting the right materials to employing advanced techniques, we ensure that each retread meets the highest standards of quality and performance. With Michelin retreads, you can have the confidence and peace of mind knowing that your tires are revitalized to their full potential, providing optimal performance and extending their lifespan. Trust in the Michelin retread process to unlock the true value of your tire investment.

The Technology

Michelin’s innovative retread process creates retreads you can trust to save money and keep your trucks on the road. Utilising Michelin’s new-tyre design technology, proven tread designs and new-tyre manufacturing standards, the Michelin retread process delivers reliable retreads, designed for your application to help you maximise your tyre assets. The MICHELIN® Retread Technologies process produces high-quality retreads that are consistent, audited and, of course, backed by a robust warranty.

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Reduce Costs

  • Maximise your assets – Retreading extends the life cycle of your tyre assets which reduces costsÂą
  • Premium quality casing – Casings are retreadable multiple times
  • Michelin and Recamic Retreads – Manufactured using Michelin new tyre patterns and tread compounds
  • Low cost per kilometre – MICHELIN® tread quality helps provide more kilometres per dollar

Superior Quality

  • Michelin Proprietary Technology In Both New Tyres And Retreads – Dual-compound treads, matrix siping technology and fuel-efficient compounds are just a few examples of features used in both MICHELIN new and retread tyres
  • Michelin Manufacturing Excellence – Our retread facility uses the Michelin Quality Management System to ensure retreads are manufactured to a very high and consistent quality.
  • Consistent, Nationwide Retread Warranty Comparable to a New Tyre – All of our retreads are backed by the Tyreline Retread Warranty.

Earth Friendly

  • No aromatic oils – The right choice for the environment
  • Conserves oil – Retreading saves 57 litres of oil per tyre
  • Reduces landfill volume – Retreading saves thousands of casings from being dumped into landfills each year
  • Supports sustainability – Recycling and reusing are critical to the future of sustainable transport

The Best Way Forward

Michelin knows retreading is the best way forward for goods transportation.

In this video, Michelin’s Guy Heywood (commercial director, UK and Ireland), Claire Dorland Clauzel (executive vice president, brands and external relations) and Antoine Pinneau (senior vice president, R&D) present the reasons for choosing to retread to the Wall Street Journal.

Why Retreads For Your Fleet?

Michelin’s innovative retread process creates retreads you can trust to save money and keep your trucks on the road. Plus, the environmental benefits of retreading are substantial.

Compared to an entry-level tyre that cannot retread, for example, a retreaded tyre makes it possible to save 24% CO2 emissions and 70% natural resource extraction due to the fact that the steel casing is reused! A retreaded tyre also means less waste to recycle. At equivalent use, a retreaded tyre generates 4.3 times more jobs than a tyre that cannot be retreaded, since, in addition to the actual retreading operations, associated maintenance and logistics services are also provided (collection, inspection, maintenance, and distribution).

Lastly, a tyre that lasts two and sometimes even more than three times longer and costs 40% less per kilometre than a new tyre enables customers to make significant savings.

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What Does Retreading Involve?

Retreading involves giving a lease of new life to a worn tyre in order to minimise the use of raw materials without compromising safety. Once truck and aircraft tyres come to the end of their life cycle, their casing structure is retained and their tread – the part of the tyre in contact with the ground – is replaced. A truck tyre designed for retreading can be retreaded at least twice which means it can be used to cover many more kilometres during its life cycle!

The process itself is straightforward and can be broken down into eight key stages:

1. Initial Inspection
Non-destructive tests are conducted on each casing. By running an electric current through the tyre, even the smallest imperfections can be detected.

2. Buffing
The tyre casing is inflated to its normal shape. The old tread is removed, and the surface is prepared for retreading by ensuring it is round and smooth.

3. Repair
Any damage found during the inspection that can be repaired is carefully addressed. The goal is to restore the casing, extending its useful life.

4. Applying Cushion
A layer of uncured bonding material is applied to the casing’s surface, filling any skives and preparing it for the new tread.

5. Building
A new tread is applied with precision, making sure it is straight and correctly aligned on the casing.

6. Enveloping
The tyre is encased in an elastic envelope to prepare it for the curing process.

7. Curing
In the curing chamber, the bonding layer is permanently set, attaching the new tread to the tyre.

8. Final Inspection
The retreaded tyre undergoes a final thorough inspection to confirm it meets all quality standards.

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Casing Management

Your tyres and tyre casings are a highly valuable asset in your transport business.  Retreads rely on robust, quality casings, and their management is paramount. Our Casing Management service includes storage of your casings, analysis of the casings by position to accept or reject them for retreading, and reporting on why the casings are being rejected.

Reasons for cases being rejected for retreading include bead damage, shoulder wear, visible steel belts and more, and this can identify axle alignment issues, flat spotted tyres, and first life tyre failings. This process allowing operators to adjust their tyre policy and address behaviours in driving across their staff and fleet.

If a casing is rejected, it is appropriately recycled in accordance with Tyrewise.

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