New Tyre life: regrooving
TYRE LIFE EXTENSION SOLUTIONS
Tyres represent a significant operational cost for your fleets. Maximizing their lifespan is essential to improving operational efficiency while reducing environmental impact.
Michelin help fleets extend tyre lifespan and optimize total cost of ownership through proven techniques such as regrooving and retreading.
3 key figures:
- +25% mileage(1): Possible additional mileage through regrooving
- Multiple tyre lives: Michelin casings are designed to support retreading
- Reduced environmental impact: Extending tyre life reduces raw material consumption and waste
DISCOVER OUR RANGE OF TYRE LIFE EXTENSION SOLUTIONS
Michelin offers solutions designed to help fleets extend tyre life while maintaining safety and performance.
MOST COMMON QUESTIONS
Tyre life extension solutions are methods that extend a tyre service life while reducing cost-per-kilometre and environmental impact.
Discover our solutions :
- Retreaging - replaces tyre's worn tread is replaced with a new tread.
- Regrooving - involves removing rubber from the layer of existing rubber to restore tread pattern depth.
Regrooving is a surface modification while retreading is a full tread refurbishment.
Regrooving extends the potential life of both new Michelin tyres and Michelin Remix® tyres by restoring tread depth, delivering on average an increased mileage potential of up to 25%(1).
Tyre life extension solutions lower cost-per-kilometre by delaying new tyre purchases.
WHY CHOOSE MICHELIN?
- It’s more than a tyre
- 130+ years of industry expertise
- 50,000 customers worldwide
Michelin designs tyres with a multi-life approach to help fleets maximize tyre performance and sustainability.
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(1) Compared to a worn, non-regrooved MICHELIN tyre. Information based on the recommendations made by the French tyre manufacturers’ federation (TNPF) in 2019, according to which the regrooving of worn tyres increases tyre life by using all the available rubber
