Apollo enters retreading business

Gurgaon, Haryana, India - In another move designed to take Apollo toward its goal of becoming a full-service, international tyre business, the Indian company has launched the DuraTreads brand of re-treading material for commercial vehicles in Southern India.

Manufactured in Apollo's Kalamassery plant near

Cochin, DuraTreads will subsequently be available across the country by leveraging Apollo's

operations network.

In a statement, Apollo said, "DuraTreads is part of Apollo Tyres' larger forward integration plan. This initiative follows the introduction of a range of alloy wheels for passenger cars called Acelere Wheelz, the training and setting up of Tubeless Service Points for the correct repair of tubeless tyres and the training and establishment of expert tyre fitters for proper fitment of commercial vehicle tyres.

Neeraj Kanwar, APollo board member, said, With better road infrastructure and the arrival of multi-axle commercial vehicles, this is the right time to offer our customers high quality re-treading material that will extend the life of their tyres. The market is largely unorganised, but has shown consistent growth every year. With our presence we hope to bring in quality standards in both the product and the process of re-treading. For this we will undertake extensive training of re-treaders. We have begun with re-treads for light and heavy commercial vehicles, but will expand our portfolio to cater to the export market and the high demand re-treading of Off-The-Road (OTR) vehicles.”