An history
of ideas
1945
The beginning of the tyre retread business in the workshop of Rovereto, in Corso Bettini
1950
First company logo
1955
The beginning of the retreading business in Rovereto
1956
Compounding production. Compounds were a must in order to complete the tyre retreading cycle. This was the responsibility of Carlo Marangoni, the only brother with the knowledge of chemistry needed to produce compounds in-house
1957
Construction of a plant, known as “Società Marangoni Fratelli”
1959
Founding of the company Marangoni Pneumatici SpA (tyre manufacturing), Marangoni Meccanica SpA (machinery for tyre manufacturing) and Pneumarket SpA (tyre marketing)
1960
Transfer of the retreading operations in Follone’s square in Rovereto
1969
Inauguration of the new plant in Rovereto, on via del Garda. The original location on Via Abetone became the site of Marangoni Meccanica
1973
From a Mario Marangoni’s idea, began the study of a new “cold” retreading system based on a precured tread ring for truck tyres.
After only one year of experiments on the prototype plant (made by Marangoni Meccanica), in 1974 it began the production of this new product, called RINGTREAD.
1976
Founding of Marangoni RTS (RingTread System). Opening of the Marangoni Tread establishment in Ferentino (Frosinone)
1977
Started research for a new tyre manufacturing process
1984
Founding of Marangoni SpA, the parent company of the holding
1985
Installation of the first waste-to-energy plant in the Marangoni Pneumatici establishment of Rovereto
1986
Expansion of the product range: start-up of the production for solid industrial tyres
1989
Founding of the company Marangoni Tyre SpA for the production of car tyres in Anagni (Frosinone)
1990
Acquisition of Ellerbrock RT GmbH (Hamburg, Germany), a major manufacturer of precured tread strips for truck tyre retreading
1993
Inauguration of the new establishment in Henstedt-Ulzburg
2002
Inauguration of Marangoni do Brasil, a plant to produce RINGTREAD precured rings and precured strips for retreading truck tyres
2003
Inauguration of a new plant in Nashville, Tennessee, and the creation of Marangoni Tread North America
2006
Inauguration of the new Marangoni Meccanica plant in Rovereto
2007
Founding of the Advanced Research and Development Centre and opening of the representative office in Shanghai (PRC)
2008
Founding of the company Marangoni Trading Shanghai
2009
Inauguration of the Marangoni Industrial Tyre establishment in Sri Lanka
2010
Acquisition of WENZEL Industrie GmbH, a German company specialising in industrial tyres that support the end users in the tyre assembly through the Quick Mont mobile fitting presses network
2012
Marangoni strenghtens its presence in the industrial sector in France through its subsidiary Marangoni Industrie Manutention, leader in complete tyre service for fork lift trucks and similar vehicles
2013
• Marangoni bring to the market two top level building machines called “Black Dragon”, the best machinery available on the market for bead to bead application
• Opening of a new factory in Alvear, Santa Fe (Argentina), bringing the number of manufacturing plants around the world, capable of producing the RINGTREAD line, to five
2014
• Acquisition of Recamax Reifen GmbH, specialists in the distribution of earthmoving retreads
• Marangoni and Tatneft Group agreed to form a joint venture in Russia for tyre retreading of truck tyres
2015
• New investments and technological innovation at the Rovereto plant: – installation of a new, latest generation banbury, capable of meeting demand for increasingly sophisticated and high performance compounds; – creation of a fully automatic and flexible hot-cure retreading production “island”
• Installation in the Ferentino plant of a special press for the production of tread rings up to 450 mm wide
• Joint venture with Leader Rubber Co. S.A., an exclusive distributor of the RINGTREAD System to the South African market and leading manufacturer of precured tread strips and other materials and machinery for retreading
• Marangoni expands its global footprint signing an agreement with GRP, India’s largest and world’s leading rubber recycling company , to establish a joint venture to carry on the business of commercial vehicle tyre retreading in India