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one hot cure mould. Chan Boot Liat revealed that “approximately 95 per cent of production is pre-cure with only 30-40 hot cure retreads being manu- factured per month”.
As for machinery and materials, it should come as no surprise considering from a complete portfolio of Newera retreading equipment which is head- lined by a 22-tyre autoclave that boasts a curing time of 2 hours 30 minutes. their client base.
In addition, Chan Boot Liat spoke at great length about the product options to four options for customers, with one of them being Gummitread’s own in-house pattern.
Boot Liat explained, “we developed our own in-house pattern, which has unsurprisingly become an in-house advantage for us since this pattern is completely unique and can’t be found anywhere else on the market.”
These unique patterns are then supported by an independent high-pressure test conducted by Gummitread. These tests are not required by law, but Gummitread carry them out to ensure quality and performance. If the prod- ucts do not reach the performance threshold required of them, they will not
The future for Gummitread is one littered with challenges, but also one that presents opportunities, as seen by the fact that the retreader will be changing locations in 2020.
“We should be moving to a facility that is double the size of what we have now,” explained Peter Soon Kok Eng. “The completion of the new site
“We are analysing the need to add new machines to our portfolio. For in- stance, we want to produce as much as possible but we struggle to pick the
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