Kal Tire

Servicing mining’s newest frontiers

As miners advance into emerging markets, many are requesting the support of trusted service partners. Kal Tire’s Dan Allan speaks to the challenges and opportunities that small- and mid-sized service firms face in establishing businesses abroad and shares some important lessons. As global demand for metals rises—fuelled by the energy transition, urbanization and infrastructure […]

‘Demand will only grow’: High quality OTR tire recycling feedstocks fueling greener tires and a greener supply chain

As thermal conversion tire recycling and refining technology transforms stockpiles into valuable commodities, Kal Tire’s Mining Tire Group is shifting end-of-life tires and the tire side of reclamation from environmental challenge to circular opportunity. When a mining tire is recycled by way of thermal conversion, the list of recovered outputs is simple but valuable: alternative […]

Kal Tire | May 3, 2024 - 10:56 am

Kal Tire launches KalPRO: innovative mining tire management solutions that improve safety, sustainability, productivity and more

At an open pit gold mine in Australia, a Kal Tire technician tightens the nearly 50 lug nuts of an earthmover tire with ease and in mere minutes. That’s because instead of his own arms and body bearing the weight of a 36-kilogram torque gun, the GATR (Gravity Assist Tooling Rig) supports the weight of […]

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Time is money: Why it ‘pays’ to be strategic with mining tire service work

Data driven insights are providing new possibilities to optimize the servicing of mining tires, cutting downtime and costs, and improving safety. Mark Goode, Director for Business Insights at Kal Tire’s Mining Tire Group, presents some eye-opening study results and makes the case for leaning on the data. Tire management is a critical part of safe, […]

Maple Program evolves to help mines prove sustainability

When Kal Tire’s Mining Tire Group launched the Maple Program in 2019 as a way to give customers using sustainable tire solutions a proven way to quantify the environmental benefits, for some retreading and repair customers, the certificates were a ‘nice to have.’ Today, though, as mines ambitiously pursue targets to reduce Scope 3 emissions […]

Turning waste mining tires into value: building a business case for OTR recycling

Many mining companies perceive OTR tire recycling to be prohibitively expensive, but Kal Tire’s Dan Allan argues that it’s possible to build a strong business case that supports profitability today, while helping businesses towards their sustainability goals. The mining industry is one of the biggest global users of off-the-road (OTR), or earthmover, tires. As […]

Sponsored | February 15, 2023 - 11:31 am

How Kal Tire can solve the challenge of scrap mining tires

As Kal Tire completes commissioning a new OTR thermal conversion recycling facility in northern Chile – a first for the country – the company is excited about what this solution at the top of the recycling hierarchy will mean for mines and end-of-life tire stockpiles in Chile, and across the mining industry. KalTireMining.com “It’s a […]

Sponsored | February 25, 2022 - 12:47 pm

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