HIGHWAY TYRES
Tyres in Johannesburg

TYRES 2000 (Heriotdale) (SA) (PTY) LTD, a privately owned company of many years standing, supplies new and retreaded tyres, related products, services, and management expertise to a variety of satisfied clients in Southern Africa. The company has an admirable track record of sustained growth and profitability by forging long-term mutually beneficial relationships with customers, staff and suppliers. Careful monitoring by hands-on management allows cost containment, reduced downtime and stock holdings, and more accurate forecasting for budget and financial controls. During recent years, the company has been split into three divisions being Retail, Manufacturing, and Field Services. This division into separate yet complementary concerns has allowed specific management focus in every area of activity, with the goal of providing superior customer service, quality, and a safe, harmonious workplace. Communication with the workforce is outstanding and the company boasts an extremely low staff turnover. The company welcomes opportunities afforded by responsible affirmative action and is delighted at the progress made by individuals on it’s first tracking program. The company has never experienced a strike or any form of work stoppage, even when unrest has crippled the rest of the industry. This team spirit underpins a commitment to quality. Modern retreading equipment and methods coupled with ongoing training allows arguably the lowest claim or scrap rate in the industry. Staff members have traveled extensively throughout the world to keep abreast of developments that could benefit their clients. It’s client base includes listed blue-chip companies, not one of whom has reverted back to opposition suppliers. The new tyre manufacturers acknowledge TYRES 2000 as a key independent player and endorse its methods and strategies. When a tyre loses a few millimeters of its tread it doesn’t have to be thrown away, but it has to be brought to a new life, as it still maintains its specific structural qualities unimpaired. Therefore, retreading tyres means extending the life time of the product improving its yield in kilometers, valorizing the casing and exploiting completely the investment already done by the purchase of the new tyre. Moreover, every year Customers choosing to use retreaded tyres save money and protect the environment. If the tyre is not retreaded after its first use, this amount of raw materials would be lost through disposal. Instead, by retreading, it is re-covered in great part, adding only a limited quantity of raw materials to replace the worn out tread. 100 years are needed in order for one only tyre to get completely deteriorated and the impact of this procedure on the environment is highly harmful. The need to replace the tyres of circulating vehicles involves the need to get rid of approx. 11 million tyres per year in South Africa with a negative impact on the environment that can be easily imagined. Retreading a higher number of tyres using frames which revealed to be still perfectly entire after accurate controls after the first use, allows to contribute considerably to safeguard the environment.