Take a Retread Plant Tour
See how a truck tire is given a new life, step-by-step, through one of our world-class retread facilities.
These Aren't Just Retreads. They're Kal Tire Retreads.
For more than 50 years, Kal Tire has been helping Canada’s toughest industries and biggest fleets keep equipment moving with retread tires made right here in Canada. From mining to construction to transportation and industrial applications, our retreading expertise runs deep across our network of world-class repair and retread facilities.
Our wide range of application-specific tires offer like-new performance and reliability for the conditions you face – at a fraction of the cost of new tires.
The Value of a Retread Program
A Kal Tire retread program delivers many benefits:
Up to 50% Cost Savings
A casing can still be good long after your tread wears. With proper maintenance, your casings can be retreaded multiple times, running for as many kilometers or hours as a new tire.
Performance & Reliability
An extensive range of application-specific treads that deliver performance & reliability comparable to that of a new tire. So much so that approximately 44 percent of all commercial tires on the road in the U.S. and Canada are retreads.
Safety
Think retreads aren’t safe? Today’s retreads are so reliable, the largest trucking fleets, school buses and airlines rely on them every day. Our technicians inspect every tire thoroughly to ensure retreading suitability & best performance.
Recycling & Reduced Carbon Footprint
Reducing your investment in new tires reduces scrap and your carbon footprint as fewer raw materials & energy are used to give a tire another life.
Watch our video to learn more about Kal Tire’s extensive retread program capabilities.
Retreads Made in Canada the Kal Tire Way
Kal Tire retreads are the evolution of more than 50 years of retreading innovation. Our highly skilled retread technicians and world-class facilities have been delivering premium retread tires and custom solutions that can’t be found anywhere else for the value.
- Industry’s highest safety standards
- Advanced retreading technology & processes built on decades of proven success
- Highly trained & certified technicians with deep expertise & tenure (some 15+ years)
Our team members are hardworking Canadians who take great pride in their tires and their communities. Our commercial stores and our retread facilities are important employers and contributors to each of the local economies.
OTR Retreading
Whatever the tire size, whatever the injury, whatever the conditions you face, Kal Tire’s retreading and repairs can save you a lot of rubber – and uptime. Our experts are ready to help with your tire management program to ensure proactive planning from inspections to maintenance services to inventory management.
- Kal Tire operates 2 OTR retread plants & 2 repair facilities in Canada
- Kal Tire operates a fleet of OTR service trucks to get the tire & expertise you need on your site
- Our highly trained technicians are committed to safety & efficiency
- We are a team of OTR tire & service experts with global experience. Kal Tire serves more than 150 mine sites across five contents through our Mining Tire Group.
Market-leading Process
Kal Tire utilizes the Bandag retread process to ensure the safety, durability, and quality of every retreaded tire. Bandag, a Bridgestone product, comprises of a rigorous quality assurance program to ensure safety, reporting and an unmatched Bridgestone level of quality finish.
We also offer the MaxTread ready-to-roll Bandag retreads for maximum savings & exceptional quality. MaxTread retreads offer the lowest priced product for its performance level on the market, enabling you to capitalize on the reliability and profitability of retreads.
Quantify your Carbon Savings with the Carbon Kalculator
As your tire partner, we want to help you achieve your goals for performance, total cost of ownership and ESG. That’s why we developed our proprietary Carbon Kalculator to enable you to quantify the carbon savings your organization is realizing by using Kal Tire’s commercial tire programs and retreading services. It includes data about the carbon emissions, rubber, and other tire materials saved by making the best environmental tire program choice.
- Accredited documentation of your sustainability achievements
- Sourced data that is based on an ISO 3rd party validated Life Cycle
- A proprietary calculator verified by SCS Global, a leader in sustainability standards
- Savings calculations that can be used in RFPs, as well as environmental & stakeholder reports
Peace of Mind. Free.
High-performance tires you can count on backed by Canada’s best retread road hazard & casing warranty.
Retread Road Hazard Warranty
Full replacement, repair or credit is based on original invoice price and provided within the first:
- 25% of wear of highway use
- 15% of wear for on/off-road use
Retread Warranty
Kal Tire warranties all our retreads to be free of defects in our workmanship and casing failure to 2/32 of an inch of remaining tread.
The Environmental Impact
Only 26 litres of oil are used to retread a medium truck tire while 83 litres of oil are used in the manufacture of a comparable new tire. The energy saved in each tire is enough to power an average home for more than a month!
On Budget & on Time Confidence
There’s no worry of supply challenges with Kal Tire. Our retread facilities are located across the country, and we ensure reliable & efficient delivery by our own transportation fleet.
Talk to one of our retreading specialists about how your company can benefit from a custom retread program with Kal Tire.