Retreader of the Year Award

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.

Retreader of the Year Award

In recognition of a particularly outstanding contribution to the tyre retreading sector during 2024

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The Voting Period for the 2025 Recircle Awards has now closed. You can find out the winners of the 2025 Recircle Awards at the upcoming Autopromotec in Bologna

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

Nominees

Colmec

Swedish retreading Group Colmec has made several organisational investments over the course of the current year. Earlier in the year, the company combined operations with Finnish tyre group Lapin Kumi to create a new sustainable tyre services group in the Nordic countries. Colmec made a similar arrangement with Swedish company Centrala Gummi in the Spring and acquired Finnish Bandag dealer Pentep Oy in January. The Combined Group now operates across Sweden, Norway, Finland and Poland and aims to have 700 staff and turnover of EUR 250 million by the end of 2024.

Kal Tire

This year, KAL Tire in Canada became a licensee of Tyromer devulcanisation technology and now showcase the best in downsizing; and then in the same facility, it is devulcanising the rubber. KAL Tire also uses devulcanised rubber in their own OTR tyres in significant portions.

Marangoni

Reasons for the nominations received by Marangoni, a previous winner of this category, focused on the company’s level of service, the fact they are still independent, their experience and global reputation, as well as product quality areas such as mileage performance and performance on snow and ice.

Rigdon

German retreader Rigdon made the news In July when it won 2.4 m Euros worth of funding from the German government to build a new passenger retreading plant with a capacity of 300,000 tyres. The company has made significant investments in automation recently, including the development of automatic conveyor systems, the development autonomous vehicles for transport of green tyres around the plant, and several automation projects in conjunction with Italmatic including the development of a shearography prototype using AI technology. The company has also become a leading supporter of Germany’s AZuR Network, and earlier this year hosted AZuR’s Retreading Summit in Günzburg.

Vaculug

UK Retreader Vaculug has continued to be very proactive in 2024 with a variety of sustainability-related activities designed to increase the company’s profile. The Vaculug Sustainability Forum, launched two years ago to promote sustainability in the tyre industry, is growing in terms of attendance and recently hosted the fourth such event. Meanwhile, the company also hosted the BTMA Retread Forum Day. Other activities this year included an investment in Pure Electric – an e-scooter venture, the launch of an in-house production system called ZEUS, and continued involvement in charity work including the Hankook Hopes programme, which helps to educate girls in India.

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.

Retreader of the Year Award

Delivered by

Vote for a nominee

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

Nominees

Colmec

Kal Tire

Marangoni

Rigdon

Vaculug

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