Tyre Retreading Plant

Abstract

Nowadays highly industrialized countries just as developing countries more and more consider the process of tyre retreading under favourable aspects • saves raw materials • saves foreign currency • recycles products that otherwise would go to waste • helps the economy of the country • and finally creates jobs. Retreading of tyres is a recycling job. While it takes 26.5 litres of crude oil to manufacture one new passenger tyre, a retread requires only 9.5 litres. The savings in truck-tyre retreading are even greater. In 1986 for example, Americans saved about a quarter of a billion gallons of crude oil by buying retreads. With today's oil prices being what they are, this is an important point. The described retreading plant is a standard plant with a capacity of 22-24 truck tyres in one 8-hour-shift.