Tonway Tyres (Pty) Ltd was started in 2000 by Tony Kalis and Wayne Sauvage. The name Tonway was derived from a combination of their respective names, Tony, and Wayne. Initially, Tonway was a retail tyre outlet supplying the domestic and commercial market with new and retreaded tyres. In 2003 Capital Bandag, a retreading factory in Rosslyn, Pretoria was purchased and later, the retail outlet was sold. Tonway Tyres became a Bandag Franchise supplying exclusively the quality Bandag retreading products. A second factory was opened in 2013 also in Rosslyn. The Tonway factory is the biggest single Bandag factory in South Africa and has achieved numerous awards and recognition from its franchisor, Bandag Southern Africa. The factory operates 24 hours a day, 5 days a week on 2x12 hour shifts. It retreads on average between 6,000 to 7,000 tyres per month with the capacity to increase to around 8,500. Tonway Tyres has been a household name in the retreading environment since 2003.
Tonway Tyres retreads truck, light truck and bus tyres for the commercial, wholesale and transport industry. We have a wide and loyal customer base consisting of re-sellers and end-users in the Gauteng, Northern Cape, Free State, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and KZN areas. Tonway Tyres also supplies new tyres and manages sites for clients looking after all their needs including CPK management.
The Tonway factory is audited by Bandag’s service engineers on a quarterly basis through a strict and rigorous set of criteria. They certify and audit it’s manufacturing, quality and environmental standards to ensure a high-quality product to clients. The factory has a unique one-of-a-kind scanning system that ensures that all customer casings are scanned at all stations from the time it arrives until its loaded and leaving the premises for delivery. Tonway has a fleet of 14 vehicles that collect, deliver, and service it’s clients daily on dedicated routes. These vehicles cover on average an estimated 86 478 kilometers per month to provide services to clients from Mussina in the North, to Komatipoort in the West, Richards Bay and Durban in the South and Kimberly in the East a fairly large geographical area in South Africa. Tonway has forged strategic partnership with key players in the industry such as new tyre suppliers, specialized site management companies and other suppliers to ensure that we can deliver a turnkey solution to all our clients. Tonway has a highly experienced management, sales and support structure to deliver the best service in the industry to our clients without fail. The business strategy of Tonway Tyres is vertical integration and growth through organic growth hence the new BEE arm, Matla (Pty) Ltd.