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TME Complete Move to New Facility
TME Tyre Retread Sdn Bhd are preparing to capi- talise on their recent investment and relocation to a new operating facility, which has freed up additional production capacity and opened new mar- ket opportunities for the Port Klang-based retreader. As a retreader, TME has only been active for three years, having been created when Edmund Teng left Kit Loong Commercial Tyre.
As of today, this leaves Teng with 11 years’ experi- ence in the industry and an abundance of knowl- edge and skill to fall back on as he plans to take TME into the future following the move to the new facility.
Teng is expecting the current production level of 3,000 pre-cure TBR retreads per month at the Telok Gong site to jump to a projected level of 4,500 by mid-2020, representing 70 per cent capacity.
“Once we are fully up and running and operating smoothly we are projecting a monthly production level of 4,500 pieces per month. At full production we will be looking at 7,000 pieces, but we clearly would require the market demand to optimise and satisfy this production level.”
Despite having healthy current and projected pro- all retreaders and not just TME is that of casing supply. Teng opines that high-quality casings are becoming sparse.
more and more a thorn in our side. We are currently being supplied from Japan using the typical Japa- nese brands (Bridgestone, Yokohama, Falken and Toyo) .”
As things stand TME currently has 38 employees in the operation with 15 accounted for by production.
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