Bergey’s Truck Centers Acquires Cumberland Truck

Bergey’s Truck Centers Acquires Cumberland Truck

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Tire Retread Services

Maximize tire life with retreading

When it comes to fleet operation, tires are one of the highest expenses. To cut costs while providing drivers with quality tires, many businesses choose commercial tire retread options for their fleet.

Our plant can handle any tire issue, from full retread on casings to properly repairing tread on damaged tires due to brake skid. Retread can save you considerable money.

Bergey’s Commercial Tire Centers provides retread tire services for trucks, OTR vehicles, and agricultural equipment. We offer premium and economy tread brands that will meet all applications/vocations in all sizes. This unique retread capability gives you a total commercial tire solution that is dedicated to Keeping Customers on the Road™ since 1924.

continental retread

Prima retread

Tire retread process

The commercial tire retread process is a series of steps that improves safety by ensuring only quality tire casings are used. We inspect, mechanically buff the casing to the correct radius and diameter, attach a new tread to the casing, and paint the casing before returning to you.

Join us as we walk you through the process of commercial tire retreading. From receiving and initial inspections, to buffing and skiving, to tread building and vulcanizing, we ensure quality production to provide our customers with safe, reliable and cost effective tire options.

Inbound Receiving

We follow a documentation process as soon as tires come into our plant for repair, tagging them with barcode stickers that include all details of the repair for that particular tire.

Watch the Inbound Receiving stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Initial Inspection

Every tire undergoes an inspection to identify if it is eligible for retreading. During the inspection, a technician will determine if repairs are necessary. Tire casings with severe damage are not suitable for the process. In this event, we can return the tire to you or provide disposal (with casing credits where applicable). If a casing is eligible for retreading but a repair is required, the damage is marked and the casing moves to the next step.

Watch the Initial Inspection stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Buffing of the Casing

The old tread is mechanically buffed away to the proper radius and diameter.

Watch the Buffing Stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Skiving Process

During this step, the casing is inspected and any foreign objects embedded deep in the casing, such as glass or metal shards are removed.

Watch the Skiving Process of our tire retread plant tour.

Repairs and Extrusion

Common repairs include nail holes and road hazard punctures. If the casing steel and fabric are not damaged, spot repairs and section repairs can also be performed. Once repaired the casing moves to the extrusion area to apply the raw cushion gum to assist tread adhesion.

Watch the Repairs and Extrusion stage of our tire retread plant tour.

New Tread Building

The new tread is applied to the casing after the gum adhesion process. Tread application can vary depending on if the casing is receiving a pre-cure tread or mold cure tread.

Watch the Tread Building stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Tire Envelope

Once the tread is applied, the completed tire is put into a curing envelope encasing the interior and exterior of the tire to set it up for the vulcanizing chamber.

Watch the Tire Envelope stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Vulcanizing Chambers

The tire and envelope package is put into a temperature and pressure controlled chamber for a specified amount of time to fully cure and adhere the new tread.

Watch the Vulcanizing stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Final Inspection, Testing and Shipping

Once removed from the vulcanizing chamber the new tire gets a final inspection, put into the pressurizer for testing and is ready to ship.

Watch the Final Inspection and Testing stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Inbound Receiving

We follow a documentation process as soon as tires come into our plant for repair, tagging them with barcode stickers that include all details of the repair for that particular tire.

Watch the Inbound Receiving stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Initial Inspection

Every tire undergoes an inspection to identify if it is eligible for retreading. During the inspection, a technician will determine if repairs are necessary. Tire casings with severe damage are not suitable for the process. In this event, we can return the tire to you or provide disposal (with casing credits where applicable). If a casing is eligible for retreading but a repair is required, the damage is marked and the casing moves to the next step.

Watch the Initial Inspection stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Buffing of the Casing

The old tread is mechanically buffed away to the proper radius and diameter.

Watch the Buffing Stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Skiving Process

During this step, the casing is inspected and any foreign objects embedded deep in the casing, such as glass or metal shards are removed.

Watch the Skiving Process of our tire retread plant tour.

Repairs and Extrusion

Common repairs include nail holes and road hazard punctures. If the casing steel and fabric are not damaged, spot repairs and section repairs can also be performed. Once repaired the casing moves to the extrusion area to apply the raw cushion gum to assist tread adhesion.

Watch the Repairs and Extrusion stage of our tire retread plant tour.

New Tread Building

The new tread is applied to the casing after the gum adhesion process. Tread application can vary depending on if the casing is receiving a pre-cure tread or mold cure tread.

Watch the Tread Building stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Tire Envelope

Once the tread is applied, the completed tire is put into a curing envelope encasing the interior and exterior of the tire to set it up for the volcanizing chamber.

Watch the Tire Envelope stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Vulcanizing Chambers

The tire and envelope package is put into a temperature and pressure controlled chamber for a specified amount of time to fully cure and adhere the new tread.

Watch the Vulcanizing stage of our tire retread plant tour.

Final Inspection, Testing and Shipping

Once removed from the vulcanizing chamber the new tire gets a final inspection, put into the pressurizer for testing and is ready to ship.

Watch the Final Inspection and Testing stage of our tire retread plant tour.

visit our plant

Still unsure of the retread process and what it can do for your fleet? We invite you to come in and visit our retread plant located in Sellersville, PA. Our team will walk you thru the process, explain the benefits of retread and it’s place in today’s commercial truck tire market. Contact us at 215-257-6529 or email us.