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.

Lifetime Achievement Award in the Tyre Retreading Sector

In recognition of an outstanding contribution by an individual over the course of their career to the tyre retreading sector.

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The winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in The Tyre Retreading Sector will be announced on May the 22nd, 2025 at Autopromotec

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

Previous Winner

Chen Jet How

Chen Jet How is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Kit Loong Group, which is known as being one of the pioneers of the tyre distribution and retreading industry in Malaysia. Mr Chen enjoyed a career that spanned over 60 years and oversaw the Group’s rapid growth from local retreader to international manufacturing and trading group. Some of his key achievements include and are not limited to: establishing its first retread plant in 1959, starting South-East Asia’s first tyre industry publication The Tyreman, overseeing the production of the country’s first precured truck retread and opening the Kayel tread rubber factory in Prai