Tire Laurent

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Tire Laurent
legal form SNC ( Société en nom collectif )
founding 1952
Seat Avallon (headquarters)
management Bernard Pottier
CEO
Number of employees 800
sales 130 million euros (2009)
Branch Chemical industry
Website [1]

Pneu Laurent is a French company that industrially retreads tires . It is also a subsidiary of the Michelin group. The headquarters are in Avallon ( Burgundy ). The only German plant was located in Oranienburg , Brandenburg , north of Berlin . The company is the largest French retreading service provider and European market leader in the reconditioning of truck tires.

Company figures

Around 800 people are employed at the two production sites in Europe, 210 of them in Oranienburg. The company's total production capacity is more than 5000 units, or around 82 tons of recycled tires per day. On a yearly basis, around 1.4 million truck and EM tires and prefabricated treads are sold. There are sales offices in France, Germany , Austria , Poland , Denmark , Belgium , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , the Czech Republic and Switzerland .

Special technology

The Pneu Laurent company uses the RCL cold retreading technology to manufacture the treads . RCL stands for recycling . Together with RECAMIC, also a subsidiary of the Michelin group, these are sold on the world market under the name MICHELIN Retread Technologies .

The RCL cold retreading process is only used for truck tires. For this purpose, the tire is given a tread that has already been vulcanized in a flat press. This is then placed on the carcass with a binding rubber compound and vulcanized in an autoclave . With this process almost all types of tires on the market can be retreaded and specific market needs can also be taken into account. This process, developed by the company itself, is unique in the world and increases mileage by up to 14 percent compared to conventional cold retreaded tires.

Company history

Laurent company

The company was founded in 1952 and initially dealt with the industrial retreading of car tires. This remanufacturing was later extended to truck tires. From 1964 the company was integrated into the Michelin group and has been its subsidiary since 1973. In the 1970s, the company also had a location in Rhineland-Palatinate . Due to increasing sales figures, Laurent Reifen Vertriebs GmbH was founded in Germany in 1981 .

From Reifen-Müller via VEB Berliner Reifenwerk to Scanrub

The VEB Berliner tire plant ( " Pneumant ") was created in 1968 from the pre-war manufacturers Tire Müller , who already in the 1930s with tire retreads had begun, preferably for trucks in the Wehrmacht . In 1990, the year of German reunification, the Viborg company took over the Schmöckwitz and Oranienburg locations . The Scanrub Reifenwerke GmbH was formed from these . In Oranienburg, the management had a modern, fully automatic tire processing plant built in 2002 with a total capacity of around 55,000 t per year.

Mergers

The Scanrub tires Werke GmbH and the company Laurent merged finally in 2004 and formed the German Laurent Reifen GmbH , headquartered in Oranienburg, the plant in Oranienburg end of November was closed 2016th

Incidents

During the construction work for the new tire processing plant was established in April 2002 through arsonist the prepared tires bearing on the former military airfield of GSSD in Germendorf set on fire. The fire affected an open area of ​​approx. 30,000 m² with approx. 8000 t of tires, which corresponds to an estimated 1.5 million pieces of tires. The clouds of smoke could be seen as far as Potsdam and Neuruppin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Communication from Sept. 29, 2010, accessed on Oct. 7, 2010 ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyonne.fr
  2. ↑ Michelin: Comprehensive Retreading Operations  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.tyrepress.com@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tyrepress.com  
  3. ↑ Laurent: Retread from Germany for all of Europe ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Reifenpresse.de from 20 Sep. 2007, Retrieved Oct 7, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reifenpresse.de
  4. ↑ 14 percent more mileage for retreaded truck tires , website of the trade journal STEINE + ERDEN, accessed on October 7, 2010
  5. ↑ The world's most modern tire recycling plant is being built in Oranienburg , notification dated April 11, 2002, accessed on October 7, 2010
  6. ↑ Business crime at the Berlin tire factory. In: Neue Reifenenzeitung 9/2000, pp. 95–97 ( PDF document via yumpu.com ).
  7. ↑ reifenpresse.de of November 30, 2016, Laurent-Reifen-Retreading has delivered the last tires - dismantling in progress , accessed on September 12, 2019