The National Chamber of the Rubber Industry (CNIH) is the business conglomerate from which three industrial branches drive the economic development of Mexico : the tire industry, represented by Miguel Pacheco Ancona, president of Bridgestone Latin America North; the Renewed Industry, led by Jorge Romero, general director of Hules Banda; and the Miscellaneous Articles Industry , led by David Cruz, general director of Maquilados
and Elastomers.
In the country there are more than a thousand companies dedicated to the manufacture of rubber-related articles that generate 62 thousand direct jobs and generate efficiency in the Transport and Logistics sector, with tires being the ones that ensure that all goods and services reach the consumer.
There are nine production plants in the country and capacity is being expanded to 12 with the construction of Yokohama , Aztema and ZC Rubber , which will come into operation in the next three years.
Due to the impact that tires have on transportation safety, as well as the relevance in fuel consumption as a consequence of rolling resistance, T21 in its edition of the 100+ Influential People in Transportation and Logistics included the president of the CNIH, Juan Pablo Ríos y Valles Boysselle , ranked 42nd.
“The tire industry is a source of innovation for all rubber products. The advances that our affiliated brands put at the service of the transportation industry end up in items that we use every day. For example, the capacity that the rubber of an airplane tire has to go from -5 degrees Celsius during flight to over 100 degrees while withstanding friction, kinetic energy and braking is the same as that contained in the rubber compound used in the insulators of electrical transformers that are outdoors and must withstand the winter frosts and summer heat in the northern part of our country,” said Juan Pablo Ríos.
Regarding the challenges facing the CNIH, Juan Pablo Ríos y Valles highlighted that the country is facing a crisis in solid waste management, landfills are becoming saturated and end-of-life tires are taking up more and more space because the Mexican market has not considered that buying a tire that lasts less time triples the number of pieces that end up in the trash, and even quintuples it when considering rolling a tire belonging to the members of the Chamber and renewing it up to three times.
Each retreaded tire is one less new tire in the landfill, there is the possibility of emitting less CO2 because the manufacturing of an additional shell is avoided , fleets and consumers are beginning to reflect on the importance of buying products with a longer useful life to contribute to the environment, and the Chamber must accompany the industry and the government so that the conditions that allow the revaluation of tires allow avoiding the unnecessary importation of tires, at the same time as the retreading industry is raised, which today only uses 23% of its capacity.
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