March, 2020
Managing two thirds of the UK’s supermarket fleets we’re working tirelessly to help keep delivery trucks on the roads so that vital groceries can continue to be delivered, especially for the vulnerable and those in isolation. We’d like to thank our colleagues within Conti360° and our distribution teams in Ivybridge, Rugby and Wigan for doing…
Read more +It’s official!! Stacie is in court and being punished with a nice cuppa while she awaits her fate. Today is crunch day as, depending on how much she has talked, yapped, chattered, nattered, negotiated and conversed, her bail could be raised even higher. Even if it only goes up £1 per word, knowing Stacie, she…
Read more +As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to take hold Bandvulc has stringent measures in place to reduce risks to all concerned and is monitoring the situation daily. Currently all foreign travel is cancelled and any UK-based meetings are on a business critical basis only. Furthermore, such plans are being monitored by our parent company, Continental Tyres,…
Read more +On the morning of Friday 13th March 2019, Stacie is to be arrested and charged with Excessive Talking. She is of course guilty as charged but if she weren’t here we would miss her! Our phone bills trebled the day Stacie joined the company and she is the reason Devon was the first county in…
Read more +Major waste management group, CSG, has committed to a further two years with Bandvulc, the specialist retread subsidiary of Continental, as it seeks to reduce both capital expenditure and management time on its vehicle fleet operations, while maintaining high safety and environmental standards. The decision takes the tyre management contract between the two companies…
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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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