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.
