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retreading
Deauto Recycle & Retread Industry Sdn Bhd has committed itself to a strategy of continues to prove to be a complex battleground.
Deauto Recycle & Retread Industry is a retread- ing and recycling operation located in Telok Pan- glima Garang in Selangor. The business had Seng started the retread factory following chang- es in the casing import licensing.
“I worked for 15 years as a casings wholesaler and 5 years with Kit Loong (Commercial Tyre), but once the import licensing changed regarding the importation of casings, we were obliged by the regulations to have our own factory. This led to the initiation of our retread business.
“We have a team of 21 workers today and are planning to add to that with two drivers. The plan is for these drivers to operate the two trucks we will be buying to collect stock retreads and customer-owned casings. This is all with the ob- jective of aiding us to cover the south and east coast of Malaysia better.”
As of today, the company is producing between 1,500 to 1,800 pre-cure retreads per month in the road applications for long and short haul journeys. This output presently covers Central, Northern and the East Coast of Peninsula Malaysia.
basis between 1,500 and 1,800 retreads. This represents approximately 60 per cent of our pro- duction capacity, thus showing our room to grow using the resources we already have available.”
This production is supported by one fourteen- that sees Deauto utilise two autoclaves with ca- pacity for 16 and 12 tyres respectively.
Furthermore, Choon Seng disclosed that the casings that supply the production are about ’60 per cent stock retreads and the remaining 40 per cent customer-owned casings’. These casings are mostly well-known brands such as Bridges- tone, Toyo and Yokohama, imported from Japan due to the high levels of retreadability.
“We want to see our volume gradually increase so that we can plan accordingly. We are currently renting out additional space in Malaysia which is
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Dato Lim Choon Seng, Managing Director for Deauto Recycle & Retread Indsutry Sdn Bhd
