Kal Tire

Over the last 69 years, customers have grown to trust Kal Tire for its commitment to service and integrity. Today, there are more than 260 Kal Tire stores across Canada, with more opening each year. Most of the small rural locations are ‘mixed’, serving both retail and commercial customers.  Most recently, Kal Tire’s growth has been focused on ‘retail only’ stores in major urban centres. Kal Tire offers an impressive selection of tire brands on the strength of long-term relationships with a key group of manufacturers that include: Nokian Tyres, Nordman, Sumitomo, Nitto, Bridgestone / Firestone / Bandag, Michelin / BFGoodrich, Continental / General, Yokohama, BKT, Pirelli, Multi-Mile, RoadX, Carlisle, Goodride and Sailun.

“If we sell it….we guarantee it!” is a sign you will see in every store. Kal Tire’s Customer Care Plan for personal-use vehicles features free tire rotation (rotating tire positions), free flat repairs, lifetime balancing on original assembly, and a 30-day no hassle replacement guarantee.

Kal Tire’s commercial tire programs are designed with the sole purpose of keeping its customers competitive. A broad range of products coupled with an unmatched, 24-hour service keeps customers rolling at the lowest cost per kilometer possible. Some other benefits of partnering with Kal Tire are:

• 24-hour road service (serviced by more than 200 Kal Tire stores)

• ISO Certified retread plants (medium truck, industrial, OTR)

• CORE Safety Certification in every province we operate

• Certified training programs for every level of work (Service, Management)

• Customized billing services

• Wheel refinishing

• Customized tire programs (detailed fleet surveys, tire performance tracking, equipment cost analysis by unit number and purchasing analysis)

Other full service programs also include; Light Duty Fleet, Industrial, Small OTR and Agriculture.

Kal Tire’s Mining Tire Group is one of the world’s leading providers of mining tire management and supply.

At every stage of tire life, Kal Tire delivers proven solutions—from application-specific tire products and a proactive tire management system to technology that extends tire life and a state-of-the-art thermal conversion recycling facility. As a multi-brand dealer, Kal Tire teams lean on a vast selection of trusted brands and nearly five decades of experience as OTR tire suppliers to help customers maximize tire life and keep fleets moving.

Our 2,700 team members support service at nearly 150 mine sites on five continents—across commodities and extremes, from the oil sands of Alberta to the remote Pilbara of Australia.

With international expertise, and innovation in tooling, processes, safety and sustainability solutions, Kal Tire helps customers achieve their goals.

Kal Tire has warehouse facilities strategically located across Canada to service the more than 250 store locations. Products are distributed from the warehouses and retread plants via a dedicated fleet. This distribution system is designed to ensure customers have the product they need, when they need it.

To further enhance the distribution network, construction was completed on a container handling yard in Chilliwack, BC, and an expansion took place at the Brampton, ON, facility.

For more than 40 years Kal Tire has been manufacturing quality retread tires, having always believed that by deferring the final disposal, retreading is recycling. Retreading existing tires provides customers with a significant cost-effective alternative to buying new tires while significantly lowering environmental impact.

Kal Tire is the largest truck tire retreader in Canada. Using the Bandag process, the company is able to offer a variety of application-specific treads that provide superior fuel efficiency and tire wear. The organization has 10 Bandag retread facilities across Canada, retreading more than 370,000 tires a year.

The Mining Tire Group is one of the largest OTR retreaders globally with six OTR retreading facilities; 2 in Canada, 1 in UK, 1 in West Africa, 1 in Chile and 1 in Mexico. A retread tire solution is available to meet the needs of all earthmover tire users in any environment from the more traditional ‘smooth and groove’ form or using state-of-the-art remould technology.