2025: Awards Categories

The Nominees for the 2025 Recircle Awards were announced in our Nominations Ceremony on January 20, 2025. Video highlights can be viewed immediately below and further down the page you can start voting for your chosen candidates.

Best Tread Rubber Supplier

In recognition of the best manufacturer or supplier of tread rubber, both precure and mould cure, to the global tyre retreading industry in terms of innovation, product quality and service.

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The Nominations Period is now closed and the 2025 Recircle Awards Nominees Shortlist will be announced on January the 22nd.

Meet The Winner

Marangoni

Marangoni is a world-renowned brand leader in the green tyre retreading industry, in the design and construction of tyre retreading machinery, in the production of TBR and OTR retreaded tyres, and in the manufacture of compounds for technical products. With more than 70 years of experience, the brand is present with its own industrial and commercial facilities on all continents. Marangoni continues to invest successfully in innovation and environmental sustainability.

Nominees

Leader Tread

South African tread rubber manufacturer Leader Tread was nominated for its levels of quality and innovation in tread rubber manufacturing and supply. Key performance characteristics are claimed to be exceptional traction, even wear, and extended mileage.

Midas

Indian tread rubber manufacturer Midas was nominated for its history which stretches back to 1969 combined with a claim that Midas is now India’s most popular brand of tread rubber from Africa to Europe and to Australia.

Silvercap

Silvercap was nominated due to its proven track record of servicing the diverse needs of customers worldwide and its commitment to innovation, sustainability, and performance. A recent milestone for Silvercap was its successful entry into the U.S. market, a significant achievement that highlights the brand´s global expansion and underlines its status as a global player in tread rubber solutions.

Vipal

Typical of the nominations of the nominations received for Brazilian tread rubber manufacturer, Vipal, was one which pointed out that Vipal has been one of the principal suppliers of tread rubber worldwide and is a company oriented and driven by retreading with great experience from several countries, being the leader in many of them. Also mentioned was Vipal’s position as the only company in the world to offer a complete line of products for retreading, its distribution strength with 14 strategically located Distribution Centers worldwide, and the benefits of Vipal’s corporate university, UniVipal.

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Vipal

Vipal

Vipal Rubber, based in Nova Prata and Porto Alegre, Brazil, has established itself as one of the largest tread rubber manufacturers in the world. With multiple distribution centres spread across strategic points of the globe, it is present in over 90 countries and in all continents. It is the undisputed leader in South America with over 300 authorised retreaders, and also has a strong position with independent retreaders in the USA, Europe and Australia. To supply this market Vipal has three factories in Brazil as well as one in Argentina and a strategic manufacturing co-operation in Spain.