In the past year, for example, the company launched the XDN2 retread, which is directly in line with Michelin's XDN2 new tire, a deep-tread drive OTR snow/traction tire.

The G338 retread, notes Goodyear retread product The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has added another retread pattern to its growing line of retreads fashioned after popular new tire tread designs.

“The tread may look the same; for example, our Ecopia M835 has the identical tread pattern as the Bandag B835, but the compounding will be different.

Retreading is the process in which new tread rubber is bonded to a refurbished tire body, or a casing. The retread process is not new — it was invented in the early 1900s.

Today’s retread tires retain all the characteristics of new tires, Totten says. “You can spec the exact same tread patterns on the retread tire that came on the tire when it was new,” he says.

Retreading processes fall into two major categories. The cold cap process, more correctly called precure, uses tread rubber that already has a tread pattern and is partially cured.

New tires and retreads are identical in structure. The original tire manufacturer builds up the casing out of many rubber compounds and then attaches the tread.

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