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RTA NEWS YOU CAN USE

June 4, 2020

There is real movement back toward normal business,
but RTA Members know that safety and security are
first and foremost for their employees and customers.

Here's some News from our friends at Vipal Rubber about
internal training of the Vipal team recently carried out through Univipal.

Vipal Rubber provides online training with the internal team to take advantage of social isolation

During the Covid-19 pandemic, teams from Brazil and abroad update themselves on various topics through classes at Univipal.

This social isolation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic motivated many companies to direct their employees to a home office regime. However, more than just adapting the everyday activities performed in the company at home, Vipal Rubber identified an opportunity for professional improvement for its employees. Recently made available to all audiences, courses at Univipal (the company's corporate university) are also including Vipal's commercial and technical teams in Brazil and abroad, with real-time guidance from Univipal instructors. The idea is to take advantage of the distance to improve and update knowledge and further prepare its professionals to meet the new demands of the market.

Since April, Vipal's internal team has been receiving daily online training on various topics related to the company's business and the tyre retreading segment.  Always under the coordination of a Univipal professional, over 40 training sessions were held covering subjects such as: Tyre Repair Patches; main causes and process failures in truck Tyres;  Tyre Legislation; Scrap Analysis; Rubber Compounds; ECO treads, among others. In addition to these, 16 more contents are scheduled to be transmitted in new classes.

With over 46 years, Vipal Rubber, leader in Brazil and Latin America, is one of the largest tyre retreading companies in the world. With global operations, it has 4 factories, in addition to distribution centers and branches around the world, maintaining regional teams operating both in Brazil and abroad. Vipal's disruptive vision allows it to understand this pandemic period as an opportunity to integrate its teams into the view of this new context. "It has been a very important laboratory for activities that we previously believed to be in a certain way, that is why it is relevant to bring everyone together through online tools. We are aware that this moment in time requires adaptations and a different attitude", says Guilherme Rizzotto, Commercial and Marketing Director at Vipal Rubber. "In doing that", he continues, "we first make Univipal's online courses available to all audiences in order to qualify the segment for after the pandemic. Now, we do it in a similar way with our employees". Rizzotto also highlights: "In addition to improving and updating our team's knowledge, we are taking the opportunity to better understand how to work with the available technologies and test the possibilities of online tools in our market, which should be a trend".

About Vipal

In its 46 years on the road, Vipal Rubber has become one of the largest tyre retreading companies in the world. It is the leader in Brazil and Latin America, with around 300 authorized retreaders, more than 200 in Brazil. It became a specialist in the rubber industry as the only company with a complete line of retreading and repairs for all types of tyres. In addition, it offers rubber compounds, floors and mats, products for industry, motorcycle tyres and inner tubes, and also manufactures machinery for retreading cargo and agro tyres.

To supply this market, Vipal has 4 factories with an installed capacity of more than 19 thousand tons per month and 3 thousand employees who have access to a physical structure of 183 thousand m².

Over the years, Vipal has combined experience with technical knowledge. It has a Corporate University and one of the most robust Research and Technology Centres in the world in the segment, housing 13 laboratories. This entire structure is reflected in products of excellence that are benchmarks for quality around the world.

For More Info Contact:
Martha Becker Connections
Daniel Rodrigues
email: daniel@marthabecker.com.br
Fone/Whats: (51) 99979-0261

You can always reach Jeffrey Parks at RTA by phone at 831-620-5345

or email: jeffrey@retreadtire.org

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
"No matter who we are,
no matter how successful,
no matter what our situation,
compassion is something
we all need to receive and give."
~ Catherine Pulsifer