WHY MICHELIN RETREADS?
Benefits Of Michelin Retreads® Retreads
Our 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.
Reduce your running costs
Maximise Your Assets – Retreading extends the life cycle of your tyre assets which reduces costs¹
Premium Quality Casing – Our casings are retreadable multiple times
Michelin & Recamic Retreads – Are manufactured using Michelin new tyre patterns and tread compounds
Low Cost Per Kilometre – MICHELIN® tread quality helps provide more kilometres per dollar
Environmentally friendly
No Aromatic Oils – The right choice for the environment
Conserves Oil² – Retreading saves 57 litres of oil per tyre²
Reduces Landfill Volume² – Retreading saves thousands of casings from being dumped into landfills each year²
Supports Sustainability – Recycling and reusing are critical to the future of sustainable transport²
Superior quality and Michelin new tyre technology
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. The factory is internationally audited annually, and follows the Michelin accredited manufacturing process which follow a consistent, audited, manufacturing process to deliver uniform results
Consistent, Nationwide Retread Warranty Comparable to a New Tyre – All of our retreads are backed by the Tyreline Retread Warranty. Find out more here.
¹Average cost of a retread is significantly less than the average cost of a new tyre. Please contact Tyreline for specific pricing.
²www.retread.org/#!about-retreading/c1srn
THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: RETREADING AND SUSTAINABILITY
Retreading is the cornerstone to our circular economy strategy in the transport sector. It increases the life of a truck tyre three-fold and has indisputable benefits: a very low cost per kilometre, saves raw materials, supports local industries involved in maintenance operations and more. Despite these many advantages, retreading must compete with low-end tyres which represent a lower investment at purchase.
Optimizing the use of resources to enhance our customers’ mobility in a sustainable manner
The boom in the demand for road mobility (expected to double and maybe even quadruple by 2050 compared to 2010) raises undeniable environmental and human issues: congestion, pollution, natural resource preservation, etc. Michelin are convinced that we should not go against the development of mobility but instead mitigate its social and environmental impacts. It is for this reason that Michelin are developing techniques such as retreading in order to market products which, from their design until the end of their life cycle, use fewer resources while delivering better performance.
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!
Retreading: three times the benefits
The environmental benefits of retreading are substantial. Compared to an entry-level tyre that cannot be 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, distribution).
Lastly, a tyre which 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.
Why Considering Retreads For Your Fleet?
SIMPLE. To make savings, play a role in sustainable transport and benefit from flexible use. Without compromising on safety.
SAVINGS
PEACE OF MIND AND FLEXIBILITY
All of our retreads are backed by the Tyreline Retread Warranty. Find out more here
Adapt your tread to suit your needs with multiple combinations available between the original tread and the replacement tread
PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT
Retreading doubles the life span of your tyre and saves natural resources¹
A retreaded tyre has 70% less raw materials than a new tyre³
1Internal tests IN 2013. Life span of a MICHELIN Remix tyre = 97% of the life span of a new Michelin tyre of the same dimension.
²European average, internal pricing information in 2014 and Internet price study carried out by an external organisation.
³MICHELIN Remix retreading only requires adding, on average, 20kg of raw materials, equivalent to a saving of 70% compared with the purchase of a new tyre.
Why Consider Retreads For Your Fleet?
SIMPLE. To make savings, play a role in sustainable transport and benefit from flexible use. Without compromising on safety.
SAVINGS
More kilometres¹
40% cheaper than new tyres and multiple retreads are possible²
PEACE OF MIND AND FLEXIBILITY
All of our retreads are backed by the Tyreline Retread Warranty. Find out more here
Adapt your tread to suit your needs with multiple combinations available between the original tread and the replacement tread
PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT
Retreading doubles the life span of your tyre and saves natural resources¹
A retreaded tyre has 70% less raw materials than a new tyre³
1Internal tests IN 2013. Life span of a MICHELIN Remix tyre = 97% of the life span of a new Michelin tyre of the same dimension.
²European average, internal pricing information in 2014 and Internet price study carried out by an external organisation.
³MICHELIN Remix retreading only requires adding, on average, 20kg of raw materials, equivalent to a saving of 70% compared with the purchase of a new tyre.
Retreading: the best way forward
Michelin is convinced that retreading is “the best way forward” for goods transportation. Guy Heywood, Michelin UK & Ireland Sales Director, Antoine Pinneau, Michelin Senior VP Pre-Development and Claire Dorland Clauzel, Group General Director, head of Brands, Sustainable Development and External Affairs, present the reasons for choosing retreading to the Wall Street Journal.
