Daventry, UK, 24 May 2022 – #hankook continues to focus on its significant retreading business for commercial vehicle tyres by expanding its own retread brand “Hankook Alphatread”. Together with #vaculug, #hankook has signed a five-year agreement today. #vaculug, one of Europe’s largest independent retread producers, will manufacture Hankook’s Alphatread retread brand in the UK. #vaculug will also work with #hankook product as a premium fitment for all its fleets.
“To offer our fleet and dealer partners a cost effective and ecological solution, #hankook continuously invests in its range and volumes of production of premium Alphatread hot-cured tyres. Our new #partnership with #vaculug will support our mission to offer attractive and sustainable products. This new agreement also ensures maximum value for our fleet customers,” says #guyheywood, Vice President Marketing Truck and Bus tyres, #hankook Tire Europe.
On behalf of #vaculug, Jorge Crespo, Managing Director, commented “We are very proud of our association with #hankook and look forward to growing this relationship to new heights. While this agreement is only for an initial period of five years, we as a family have had a relationship with #hankook that goes back over four decades. We look forward to building on that #partnership where the next generation of both #vaculug and #hankook help the environment through more sustainable initiatives such as this one.”
The #hankook SmartLife Solutions concept demonstrates the advantages of a hot retread for fleet companies. All #hankook commercial vehicle tyres are designed in such a way that they can be regrooved, while the high-quality carcass can be retreaded several times. These features allow fleet companies to be able to achieve significant economic benefits: 5-9 mm of additional base rubber under the tread delivers up to 25% more mileage after regrooving. #hankook Alphatread hot retreads can deliver up to 100% of the mileage achieved with a new tyre and equivalent performance for around 60% of the cost. If the regrooving and retreading process is continued in line with the #hankook SmartLife Solutions concept, the service life of a new tyre can be increased to 250%. As well as these financial benefits, there are also various benefits for the environment. One of them is the fact that around 70% of the raw materials used in new tyres can be saved during retreading.
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