Let’s review the regrooving of heavy-duty tyres together

In the current context, control of operating costs is essential. Regrooving tyres increases the lifespan of a tyre by 25%, reduces fuel consumption (up to 2L / 100 km per vehicle), thus encouraging savings in raw materials and CO2 emissions. However, regrooving is currently scarcely used in practice.

The regrooving of heavy-duty tyres is currently carried out manually.
This practice poses several problems:

• the ability to organise the business in the workshop or outside at the right time
• user-friendliness:
  • physical difficulties
  • difficult task affecting the attractiveness of the profession
• the quality of the act of regrooving (compliance with multi-brand diagrams, difference in rubber compound per model)

Carrying out the regrooving automatically rather than manually would be beneficial, but there is no solution on the market currently.

We have developed a solution to automate regrooving using a machine, which does not require any human intervention during the operation.


Here are its key features:

• It is mobile: it can be parked in a workshop or brought to a fleet of vehicles
• It is used to regroove a tyre mounted on a wheel or a tyre alone
• It measures the depth of the grooves and manages the regrooving depth 
• It includes a rock removal function
• It allows a large number of tyre brands / models to be recreated

The automation of the re-use allows you:

• To control the process for better safety of road users
• Not to impact the retreadability of the tyre
• To reduce the labour required
• To reduce vehicle downtime
• Not to require specific skills 
• To ensure better working conditions
• To conduct business at the same time
• To improve the attractiveness of recruitment in professions experiencing shortages

Humans are no longer performing but rather supervising the action.