Desser prefers to buy its cores in numbers on pallets, but the company also has a group of owners who send their tires in for the retread process.

For that reason, the tires on these vehicles have specific requirements that retreads don't meet.

The deal will see the Shanghai-based airline receive new tyres made at Dunlop Aircraft Tyres' factory in Birmingham, UK, that will be distributed from and retreaded at the manufacturer's joint venture company, Dunlop Taikoo (Jinjiang) Aircraft Tyres.

The plant is the first precure tread facility the Bridgestone Group has built since acquiring the U.S.-based tire retread operating company, Bandag Inc., in 2007.

The signs are that the market for retread and recycled tyres will grow, as world demand for rubber grows, particularly in China.

The state-of-the-art retread facility, which has sophisticated machinery and equipment, has a capacity to retread 26,000 tyres in two shifts, Shoichi Sakuma, President of Bridgestone Middle East & Africa, told Times of Oman yesterday.

Bridgestone Corporation announced its decision to construct a new plant for the production of Aoprocure 1Ao tread for retread tires.

Seen from the tire types, China mostly retreads tires of heavy duty trucks and passenger transport buses, while it does not retread tires of saloons.

The facility will support airlines based in the Asia Pacific region by distributing new tyres that have been manufactured in Birmingham and by providing a retread service.

The retread business has grown so much over the past few years that the plant is moving into a new, 80,000 square foot facility in October 2008, said Foley Tires can be retreaded up to three times after they come off the assembly line, he said.

The Wales Environment Trust is urging businesses to use retread tyres to cut 26,000 tonnes of waste.

With Ferry's help, Blocker cut the fleet's tire costs in half by switching from new tires to retreads. Blocker found that by using retreads from Bandag Inc.--a global supplier of tire retread products based in Muscatine, Iowa--he could maintain high performance, extend the wear on the tires, and reduce costs.

Maxsport Competition Tyres plans to eventually retread more than 50,000 tyres a year,primarily for the motors port and off road vehicle markets.

RETREAD Once common nationwide, retreading tires (instead of replacing them) fell out of favor as the price of both oil and tires plummeted.