Purcell Retread Plant in Cleveland, NC

1. Inspection. The casing is examined for damage, separation and previous repairs. Not every casing passes, and that is the point of the step.
2. Preparation. The remaining tread is buffed away and repairable damage is repaired.
3. New tread. New tread rubber is applied and cured onto the casing.
4. Final inspection, then the tire goes back ready to run.

What comes back is a tire, not a patched version of the one you sent.

Eight casing categories: commercial truck, agricultural, OTR, industrial, light truck, passenger, trailer, and UTV and ATV. Tracks are not retreaded at any Purcell plant.

Retreading is a regional business. Casings are heavy, and hauling them a long way eats the saving that makes retreading worth doing. Seven plants spread across the country is what lets a fleet send casings somewhere sensible.

Cleveland covers the eastern end of that network, which makes it the plant that matters for the Purcell stores in Kentucky and for fleets further east. The other six are in Phoenix, AZ, Denver, CO, Boise, ID, Potosi, MO, Portland, OR and Salt Lake City, UT.

Through the Purcell store you deal with, which collects them and sends them here. You do not need to contact the plant or arrange transport.

What decides whether a casing passes is mostly what happened to it before it arrived. A tire run flat, even briefly, usually ends the casing. Damage left unrepaired works through it. Chronic under-inflation cooks it from the inside. The habit that protects casings is stopping a unit as soon as a tire fails and calling roadside assistance.

A plant works to a schedule, and a fleet gets more out of it by working to the same one.

If you are planning a changeover, say so in advance rather than sending casings and waiting. Turnaround depends on what is already in the plant, and a batch that arrives announced is easier to place than one that turns up. The same applies seasonally: operations that know their quiet months are better off sending casings then, when nothing is waiting on the tires.

The store you deal with handles that conversation. You do not need to call the plant yourself, though the number is above if something specific needs asking.