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  • Februari 02, 2008
    AUTOMATIC MANUFACTURING OF TEXTILE BODY PLY IMPROVES TIRE QUALITY
    VMI Epe Holland is proud to introduce its latest invention for the automatic production of Textile Body Ply for car tires. This system automates an important process which so far always had to be performed manually.  


  • August 28, 2007
    VMI LAUNCHES A NEW RADIAL OTR TIRE BUILDING SYSTEM
    VMI has launched its first radial VMI OTR (Off-The–Road) Tire Building system. This system utilises flat drum building technology and assembles in one process green tires in sizes from 17.5 R25” till 24.00 R35”, including the application of the tread.  


  • Juli 24, 2007
    SECOND VMI PLANT IN CHINA & RADIAL TIRE SEMINAR
    June 9th is an important milestone in the development of VMI’ world business as we officially opened our second factory in Yantai, China.  


  • May 08, 2007
    AWARD FOR DR. GROSCH, INVENTOR OF THE LAT-100 TESTER
     


  • Februari 09, 2007
    VMI EXPANDS ITS ACTIVITIES IN ITALY
    VMI has acquired the assets of the Italian company Sistemi Automazione Industirali (SAI). Under the management of Ezio Facheris, the SAI business will be continued from its offices in Bergamo-Italy under the name VMI-SAI.  


  • December 05, 2006
    VMI AND COLLMANN AGREE ON A STRATEGIC ALLIANCE STARTING 1st JANUARY 2007.
    VMI and Collmann have agreed to form a strategic alliance aimed at an extensive cooperation in sales, production and service, which alliance will become effective on 1st January 2007. From that date, VMI will take over from Collmann all sales and service activities in the important Chinese market.  


  • November 13, 2006
    THE LATEST VMI SINGLE STAGE TBM FOR RADIAL CAR TIRES IS...THE VMI 242!
    The VMI 242 is VMI's new low-cost TBM, especially built for emerging markets with low labor costs. This single stage machine has relative to the VMI 248 a lower level of automation. The new VMI 242 TBM is suitable to build radial car tires in the range 14 – 20 “.

     


  • August 08, 2005
    VMI AUTOMATES BEAD-APEX ASSEMBLING FOR CAR TIRES
    The new VMI automatic bead-apex line assembles up to 10.000 high quality apexed beads per day. A number of these bead-apexing lines are now in operation.  


  • June 06, 2005
    LABORATORY TESTER ACCELERATES DEVELOPING OF TREAD COMPOUNDS
    VMI now offers a comprehensive Laboratory Abrasion-and-Traction-Tester for the development and quality control of tread compounds, the LAT-100.  


  • March 07, 2005
    MODULAR TIRE MANUFACTURING BY MARANGONI & VMI
    Marangoni Tyre and VMI Epe Holland have teamed together to produce the first full scale production version of the VMI MTM (Modular Tyre Manufacturing) system.  


  • Januari 09, 2005
    MECHANICAL CARCASS BUILDING AND SHAPING DRUM FOR CAR TIRES
    VMI has now released its mechanical carcass building and shaping drum to replace bladder drums on its VRP range of TBM’s. However, the new mechanical drum is also suitable for non-VMI tire building machines. 


  • May 19, 2003
    NEW ACCURATE STACKER FOR RUBBER STRIPS AND SHEETS
    VMI has developed a new cooling and stacking system that accurately processes at high-speed unvulcanized rubber strips and sheets. It is suitable for compounds of different viscosity, size and shape, all in one single machine.  


 corresponding article in Chinese