Tag: VMI

VMI introduces foreign-detection sensor for tyre treads

Dutch machinery firm VMI is focusing on smart solutions that optimise tyre building and address the challenges the industry is facing, with new advanced vision systems, self-learning AI algorithms and self-adjusting processes contributing to improved flexibility, higher accuracy and consistency. Thus,…

VMI opens new service centre in Thailand

Dutch tyre and rubber machinery maker VMI recently officially opened its Southeast Asian service centre in Chonburi, Thailand. The move from smaller premises to the new high-tech facility reflects VMI’s commitment to support the industry in this increasingly important region.…

VMI launches new belt maker for tyres

Dutch machine maker VMI launched its new Unixx belt maker, which it says produces “high quality endless steel belts by means of an innovative and accurately controlled extrusion process that can handle a wide range of compounds”, at the Tire…

VMI expands in Poland with new plant

Dutch tyre machinery maker VMI recently celebrated the opening of three new production assembly halls at its manufacturing site in Leszno, Poland. This will bring the total available floorspace for production of VMI’s machinery in Poland to almost 30,000 sq…

VMI opens global remote monitoring service centres

Dutch tyre manufacturing machinery maker VMI has launched three remote-monitored technical support centres, which it says will provide “consistent service to customers globally”. The company said that three helpdesk units in Yantai, Shandong Province, China; Ape, Netherlands and Ohio, US; Will…