| 词条 | Avon Rubber |
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| name = Avon Rubber PLC | logo = Avon Rubber logo (grey).svg | logo_size = 175px | type = Public ({{LSE|AVON}}) | foundation = Limpley Stoke ({{Start date|1885}}) | location = Melksham, Wiltshire, England | key_people = David Evans Chairman | industry = Manufacturing | products = Rubber and polymer-based products for personal protection (industrial and defence) and dairy | revenue = {{profit}} £140 million | num_employees = Approx. 800 | homepage = www.avon-rubber.com }} Avon Rubber p.l.c. is a British company that specialises in the engineering and manufacturing of respiratory protection equipment for military, law enforcement and fire personnel as well as milking equipment for dairy farmers. Its corporate headquarters are located {{convert|3|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of Melksham in Wiltshire, England, at the Hampton Park West development. It has other manufacturing sites in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin; Cadillac, Michigan and Albinea, Italy. In 1933, the company became publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange. It is now a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index. HistoryIn 1885 Messrs E G Browne and J C Margetson acquired a rubberized cloth mill, known as Avon Mill, on the banks of the River Avon at Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire. The owners of the mill had been timber merchants, but had later diversified into the production of rubber goods.[1] By 1890 the business had transferred to premises in Melksham and was named The Avon India Rubber Company Limited. Products at this time included solid tyres, conveyor belts and components for railways. By 1900, pneumatic tyres for bicycles were being produced, and by 1906 the first car tyres were advertised. In 1915 the company acquired the Sirdar Rubber Works at Greenland Mill in Bradford on Avon. In 1933 the company was floated on the London Stock Exchange.[1] In 1956 the rival company of George Spencer Moulton (founded in 1848) was acquired, bringing with it Abbey Mills and Kingston Mills in Bradford on Avon, and a jointly owned plant in Paris. In 1959, production started on a range of inflatable boats. The company manufactured the S6 NBC Respirator, a gas mask used by the British armed forces, from the 1960s and in 1986 this was followed by the S10. Since 2009, Avon has supplied the M50 mask to United States forces.[2] In 1994 the Llanelli-based marine business Avon Inflatables, Ltd was split-off and sold; since 1998, the company has been a division of Zodiac Marine, France. In 1997 the Avon Tyres business was sold to Cooper Tire & Rubber Company of Findlay, Ohio in the United States, leaving the company to concentrate on its core businesses of automotive components, technical products and protective equipment. The Cooper Tires site remains a major employer in central Melksham. In March 2000, Avon consolidated its activities at a £19 million manufacturing and head office facility at Hampton Park West at Semington, near Melksham and a £13 million purpose-built polymer mixing centre nearby at Westbury. As of January 2008, around 350 people worked across the two sites. In June 2005, Avon purchased International Safety Instruments, Inc. (ISI), based in Lawrenceville, GA USA. Avon-ISI is a manufacturer of SCBA, APR, and thermal imaging systems for fire, law enforcement and industrial applications. In August 2006, the Avon Automotive division was sold to a US-based management team and became a separate entity called Avon Automotive Holdings Inc.; this was the largest buy-out in the company's history. The aerosol division was sold for £1.75 million in March 2008 to Avon Group (an unrelated Bristol-based company), enabling Avon Rubber to concentrate on its core protective equipment, dairy and extrusions markets.[3] In November 2008, the mixing plant at Westbury was sold to ATR Compounding Ltd, a division of SPC UK, a compounder of rubber based in Whitby. Notable people
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References1. ^1 {{Cite web|url=https://gracesguide.co.uk/Avon_India_Rubber_Co|title=Avon India Rubber Co|last=|first=|date=|website=Grace's Guide|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=12 February 2019}} 2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/questor/12004262/Questor-share-tip-Hold-Avon-Rubber-as-gas-mask-orders-rise-on-risk.html|title=Questor share tip: Hold Avon Rubber as gas mask orders rise on risk|last=Ficenec|first=John|date=18 November 2015|work=Daily Telegraph|access-date=12 February 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.rubbernews.com/article/20080225/ISSUE/302259990/crosslinks-to-buy-avon-rubber-unit|title=Crosslinks to buy Avon Rubber unit|last=McNulty|first=Mike|date=25 February 2008|website=Rubber & Plastics News|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=13 February 2019}} 4. ^{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=1927|title=Obituary: George Pargiter Fuller|url=https://archive.org/details/wiltshirearchaeo441927/page/65|journal=Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine|volume=44|pages=65-66|via=Internet Archive}} 5. ^Obituary: Mr C. M. Floyd, The Times, 29 June 1971, p. 17. External links
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