Martins, the tyre equipment and supplies provider, has announced the acquisition of acquisition of Safety Seal, which is known for its tyre repair tools and solutions. According to Martins, this move allows the company to “expand its product portfolio and strengthen its position as a comprehensive provider for the tyre industry.”
With more than 300 million car, light commercial vehicle and truck tyres changed every year in Europe, a lot of potential savings for the environment and mobility costs untapped. According to Rema Tip Top, professional solutions for the repair and retreading of passenger car and truck tyres as well as industrial, agricultural and off-the-road vehicles, will reduce costs and raw material consumption and therefore increase sustainability.
Rema Tip Top advocated for industrial maintenance to prioritise repair and reuse over replacement to reduce material waste at the recent COP 28 summit in Dubai.
“Extending the life of industrial equipment is vital for both sustainability and efficiency,” said Michael Labbé, executive director at Rema Tip Top. Sustainability does not just involve being kind to the environment but also being smart about resources and costs.
And that’s where Rema Tip Top’s maintenance experts come in. According to the company, experts agree
Autogem has inflated its aftermarket tyre safety offering to coincide with National Tyre Safety Month, courtesy of an improved 6mm combination plug patch solution. The upgrades begin with the packaging, which now includes a QR code linking to a product training video. Two ‘cut-out and keep’ guides can also be detached from the box and used to help identify safe and repairable areas of tread as well as tyre injury angle of penetration.
A survey commissioned by Apollo Tyres has found that a clear majority of European motorists would not attempt to deal with a tyre puncture at the roadside themselves. Just 46 per cent say they would use the car’s supplied spare tyre or inflation kit, compared to 32 per cent that say they would instead call on a vehicle breakdown service for assistance, and 16 per cent who would seek help from a family member, friend or colleague.
Defective tyres do not have to be replaced immediately, if they are repaired professionally. In many cases, mid-life tyres can be repaired professionally and remain in safe use for a significant length of time. This helps to protect the environment and the car owner’s wallet, according to Ludwig Ketzer has been working at tyre repair specialist Rema Tip Top for almost 40 years. Ketzer and Rema Tip Top aim to ensure that tyres are used for as long as possible in order to avoid waste, CO2 emissions and raw material consumption. Here he explains common methods and limits of tyre repair and what workshops need to offer for professional tyre repair.
After a break due to the pandemic, the Rema Tip Top Academy resumed training operations for users of Rema Tip Top repair systems in March 2022. In the course of the re-start, the classroom training programme was expanded to include webinars. In short, Rema Tip Top has taken a step towards the virtualisation of its course, with “a smart software solution and state-of-the-art video technology.”
Volvo Car UK is offering a free repair service covering both windscreen and tyre damage. Volvo reports that the service is the first of its kind in the UK car industry to cover both tyres and windscreens. Where “viable”, Volvo retailers will the service on Volvo cars “of any age” and work will be carried out by “qualified Volvo technicians”.
OTR tyres that last longer save users money, observes Monaflex Repair Systems. An important factor determining tyre lifespan is the quality of repairs made to tyres. The company behind the Monaflex system thus poses the following question – how do you achieve the best possible tyre repairs? It encourages everyone undertaking OTR tyre repairs to consider six key points.
TECH Europe’s channel sales manager, Jon Bartholomew and VP of sales and training, Walter van Loon, have visited distributor, Altaroda, SA. Based in Paredes, Portugal, Altaroda has been a key player in the tyre repair industry for more than 12 years, building its customer base through customer service and product development.
Vipal Rubber, one of the world’s top manufacturers of tyre retreading products, has participated in the ProfiAuto Show 2019 (8-9 June in Katowice, Poland) in partnership with exclusive Polish distributor, Arko-Gum. The partnership between the companies, vital in ensuring Vipal provides the most relevant solutions for the Polish market, has been in effect for nine years.
After almost eight years, Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. (SRI) has won the lawsuit it filed against Italian manufacturer TEK Automotive S.r.l. concerning the infringement of SRI’s patents on emergency tyre puncture repair kit technology.
Motorists from Oxford are the unluckiest drivers in the country – picking up the most punctures, dents, scrapes and parking tickets than anyone else, according to a new study. Researchers polled British drivers and discovered that people from the university city, home to Jaguar driving Inspector Morse, consider themselves to have the least luck when it comes to motoring.
Tyre Industry Awards 2015 winner Rema Tip Top has opened its new tyre repair and garage equipment training centre following significant investment in Leeds headquarters. Hosting Tyres & Accessories at a launch event in October, immediately after its NTDA 2015 Tyre Industry Award for Tyre and Aftermarket Supplier of the Year, the company showed how the site has been entirely refitted, having lain derelict for around half a decade before the acquisition of Doncaster’s Ace Conveyor Equipment in 2008 and subsequent consolidation of the industrial business. The new centre will provide accreditation for the new generation of tyre technicians, with an expanding variety of courses delivered over one or two days. Rema Tip Top chief executive Mark Insley stated: “We recognise the importance of education and training to an industry which is responsible for the safety of millions of people on our roads on a daily basis. With this well-equipped and highly professional facility we will provide an invaluable resource for our customers.”
If you’ve needed to change a tyre lately, you may have been confronted by a space saver in the boot – or no spare tyre at all. Pressure to reduce vehicle weight, combined with increasing tyre reliability and a growing reluctance (or inability) amongst motorists to actually change a flat tyre, has seen the number of new cars equipped with a full-size spare fall dramatically in the past few years. Previewing a new market research report during last month’s Tire Technology Expo conference, Notch Consulting Inc president Paul Ita noted that while 68 per cent of cars produced in 2008 came with full-size spares, this number had slid to 48 per cent four years later, and he projects that by 2017 only 41 per cent of new cars will still be sold with a full-size spare.
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