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This past year we also invested in R&D software to improve our retreading processes. For example, our team of internal experts explored the development of a Casing App which is designed to give us enhanced visibility across our supply chain. The industry leading App, which was developed internally, allows us to ensure that when tyres are removed by our customers the casings will be returned to Vaculug for re-processing.
This gives us a closed loop casing system on all our managed contracts. More than this, it helps us keep casings out of landfill sites, in line with our ‘zero general waste to landfill policy’.When it comes to innovative thinking, we are determined to go the extra mile for our customers.
Driven by a manufacturing process that values quality and excellence, through our R&D efforts
we are committed to working towards continuous enhancements and improvements of all our products and services.
We remain the first and only retreader
in the UK to utilise high-pressure, 12-segment matrices which are used to produce our Logistik range. We applied the same technology used from aircraft retreading technology, leading
to the idea for the 12-segment matrices.
With regard to the reduction of noise limits for tyres Vaculug is committed to develop tyres with the lowest noise level. However,
in agreement with the ETRMA position, the industry demands more attention should be paid to improving the accuracy of the noise measurement method, which is a crucial point for a reliable policy that benefits the entire noise ecosystem, as no requirements n road pavement noise exist at the moment.
Having recorded a remarkable reduction
on noise level in last 15 years, tyres
naturally reached their physical limits for improving noise performance. Hence any further improvement in noise emissions
will negatively impact other significant tyre performances, for instance rolling resistance, which and wet grip, which are crucial to fuel efficiency and traffic safety purposes. As these latter are the key priorities in achieving ambitious goals for stopping climate change, reducing accidents and fatalities. Before potentially tightening rolling sound limits for tyres, attention should be paid to improving the accuracy of noise measurement method, which is crucial for a reliable regulation that benefits the entire noise ecosystem (recall that no requirements on road pavement noise are existing).
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This innovation has resulted in tyres which exhibit both excellent wear characteristics and lower rolling resistance. In addition, our Duramold range now houses the 245/70R17.5 WXY2, a tyre with a specially developed kerbing band to provide extra sidewall protection to urban vehicle tyres which become worn from sustained kerb damage.
In 2022, at a time when the economy was anything but predictable or stable, driven by our entrepreneurial spirt we became the world’s first retreader to accept cryptocurrency. The move positions our company to be ready for the future growth potential of the cryptocurrency space.