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Hillhead 2024
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Transforming the Off-The-Road Sector: Introducing Vaculug, the Future of Sustainable Tyre Management
Established in 1950, Vaculug is Europe’s largest independent retreader producing high quality OTR and truck retread tyres for fleets across the UK and Europe. As well as this, they offer effective and practical fleet management solutions which are tailored to meet their customers sustainability goals and objectives, whilst offering substantial cost savings.
Over the last few years, Vaculug have focussed their investments on people, processes and their ESG strategy. Sustainability is at the heart of Vaculug’s ethos, as they minimise waste, recycle where possible and make efficient use of energy and other important resources. They do this by extending the lifespan of tyres through their retreading process. This reduces the need for new tyre production and thereby conserves resources, as well as minimising waste by giving tyres a second life before disposal.
Alongside manufacturing their own retread tyres, Vaculug are exclusive UK distributors for long standing partners Yokohama (37 years in partnership) and the Magna Tyres Group (17 years in partnership), allowing them to offer their customers a wider range of tyres.
Vaculug work with their customers to maximise the life of the tyre asset. They invest in monitoring every tyre asset throughout its operational life so that they can manage costs and forecast replacement schedules, with the aim of reducing overall machine operation costs and downtime. The different options available include:
Fixed Price Solutions: Based on a monthly fee charged for each machine, ideal for accurate budget management.
Managed Solutions: Based on monitoring equipment over a given time period. This enables data to be analysed in order to predict wear rates, replacement cycles and ongoing costs.
Pay-as-you-go: Customers opt for services as and when they require them e.g. tyre supply, repair or Tyrfil.
Vaculug have also strengthened their offering by opening a regional distribution warehouse in the south of England, enabling them to distribute stock to customers and contractors. This
gives Vaculug the ability to offer same-day or next-day delivery solutions to their customers.
Vaculug's Off-The-Road team have established themselves as a leader in the tyre industry through a combination of expertise and exceptional customer service. With a focus on heavy-duty applications, their OTR team caters to industries such as construction, mining and agriculture, providing reliable tyre solutions that meet the challenging demands of these sectors.
Michael Evans, OTR and Operations Director at Vaculug added “We now have a market leading team of OTR specialists consisting of four UK Sales Managers, a National Key Account Manager and a OTR & Operations Logistics Manager.”
Vaculug will be co-exhibiting alongside Magna Tyres at this year’s Hillhead event, which will showcase the latest innovations and advancements in the quarrying, construction and recycling industries. Vaculug and Magna have been in partnership for over 17 years, working together to successfully provide high-quality tyre solutions and exceptional service to their customers.
Visit Vaculug at Hillhead on Stand W19 to discuss how they can transform your OTR fleet!
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