As a subsidiary of Continental, one of the world’s largest automotive companies, Bandvulc operates a number of businesses which provide a whole life costs approach to fleet tyre management solutions including new tyres, retreads and casing services. It supplies a retread via Bandvulc Tyres with rubber mixed in its own company, BV Mixing, a full range of bespoke management solutions via Conti360° Fleet Services and a new tyre offering via tyre wholesale division BVF1rst. Bandvulc also provides TPMS and fitting services through Conti360° Network, Tyre Maintenance Ltd. and R & J Strang Ltd. across the UK.
By brothers John & Richard O’Connell
Are managed by Conti360°
Recognised as one of the fastest growing regional companies in the UK
Saves the environment 68 litres of oil
Is manufactured every 2.5 minutes
Developed the first waste tyre to be protected against sidewall curbing
The Sunday Times Track 200 recognises Bandvulc for export growth into foreign markets
Average call answered in 6 seconds, ASAP jobs attended within 61mins, 94% policy adherence
World class UK factory producing circa 200,000 commercial retreads per year with more than 100 different patterns and sizes, including specialist applications. Bespoke compounds developed in-house for the sole use of our retreading operation.
Bandvulc offers personalised tyre and call management solutions for commercial logistic operations. Our innovation and investment, both in people and technology, has made us a key partner and supplier for small, privately owned companies right through to national blue chip fleets.
There’s no question that Scottish aggregates firm, Patersons Quarries, has a strong working partnership with Continental-owned tyre business R&J Strang Tyre Services Ltd. Boasting a staggering 25-year professional affiliation, the pair have recently committed to hitting their pearl anniversary, with a new five-year deal, securing a total three decades of collaboration. For Patersons, an…
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Peter Pritchard thinks he has the best job in the world. He’s a Rubber Technician. He joined Bandvulc, Britain’s largest commercial tyre retreader, in 1992 as a laboratory technician at the company’s headquarters at Lee Mill, near Ivybridge. “I was working in quality control and I was just fascinated,” he says. “I was mainly self-taught…
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The tyre industry doesn’t seem like an obvious place to start when you are looking for examples of environmental good practice. But South Devon company Bandvulc has green policies at the heart of everything it does. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Britain’s largest commercial tyre retreader which was established in 1971, now a…
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