There are companies who "retread" tires. They have been around for a while. The OTR truck industry uses it quite a bit. Although, they are no longer "retreads", as the technology has allowed them to be much more better. They are truly remolded. This is very similar to how tires are made, they are just recycling the carcass and re-vulcanizing the tread cap to the carcass.
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Mr. Clark is correctà
While itÆs always been moving along, retread technology has improved
dramatically in the last 5 years alone. --- New and vastly improved rubber compounds have been developed; buffing machines are now far more accurate at removing the old tread from the casing; the curing/vulcanization process in the molds is now an exact and thoroughly predictable science; etc.
ItÆs still miserably and oppressively
HOT in a recap shop û they havenÆt managed to improve that any û but the products themselves are leaps & bounds ahead of what they were even a few short years ago.
Interesting. I wonder why they're so much cheaper than what I'm looking at a GDT's own site?
Assuming that there are in-fact two (or more) different shops making and selling the same tire - more than likely, theyÆre all buying their stock rubber from the same distributor, and all using the same tread forms in their moldsà ItÆs just that one of them is maybe running less overhead (or simply isnÆt quite as greedy) û Compared to manufacturing a tire from scratch, recapping is dirt-cheap`cause most of the money is in the casing.
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