Three more organizations join the IRSG

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Three more organizations join the IRSG
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& B- S6 X; W5 V, c8 t5 F5 DSingapore - The International Rubber Study Group announced that three more organizations, Aspinwall & Co., Mitsubishi and Semperit Industrial Products, have joined the IRSG Panel of Associates. Aspinwall possesses over a 142 years of history, becoming a public limited company in 1956 and in 1971 its controlling shares were acquired by the Royal family of the Maharaja of Travancore. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Aspinwall entered in the developing rubber industry, and was among the first to develop organized rubber plantations in north Kerala. The group owns 2,000 acres of rubber plantations and produces high-grade centrifuged latex and technically specified natural rubber. Mitsubishi is Japan’s largest general trading company with over 200 bases of operations in approximately 80 countries worldwide. MC has long been engaged in business with customers around the world in virtually every industry, including energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, food and general merchandise. Semperit is one of the most traditional and competitive enterprises in the international rubber and synthetics industry, with a history dating back to 1824. Semperit AG Holding today operates 21 production factories and numerous sales branches on three different continents: Europe, Asia and America. Semperit’s Sempermed has developed, produced and distributed superior quality medical and protective gloves for many years. Its Semperflex division develops, manufactures and markets hydraulic and industrial hose, rubber sheeting and wear resistant rubber worldwide.