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 ...

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.

Michelin X One Line Energy D2 Pre-Mold, Michelin’s lowest rolling resistance heavy truck drive retread to date, is designed for the long haul market across the U.S. to optimize fuel efficiency. “The ...

Bridgestone designed its new Bandag BDM3 retread for refuse applications. Bridgestone calls the new tire a “next-generation retread” for the drive position, and says it is designed with a new ...

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 ...

The idea that a retread is far inferior to a new tire is a bit like Bigfoot – some people don’t believe in it, some do, and don’t confuse those true believers with the facts because their minds are ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Based on "unprecedented" demand in the market this year, Bridgestone Americas Inc. is forecasting 9% growth in the sale of Bandag-system retreads versus 2021 in North America to ...

“It‘s pretty simple when you lay the facts out about retreads to fleets: they‘ll save them a lot of dad-gum money.” -Robert “Bobby” Ford, assistant center manager, Goodyear Truck Care Center, Dallas ...

ROCK HILL, S.C.—Continental has been in the retreading business in its home European market for decades. But it's only been active in the U.S. retreading sector since 2011, and the firm's Continental ...

I'm going to take a little while to reminisce today, prompted by my recent visit to the new Continental Retread Solutions Development Center in Rock Hill, S.C. You see, my father was the first plant ...