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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



LMav 1, 1914. 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe. 



CONTINENTAL CAOUTCHOUC AND GUTTA PERCHA CO.. HANOVER. 



THE report of the above company for the year 1913 records the 

 exceptional movements of rubber during the year, presenting 

 the following estimates of the world's consumption of rub- 

 ber during recent years: 1908-9, 71.080 tons; 1909-10, 76.026 tons; 

 1910-11. 74.082 tons; 1911-12, 99,364 tons. It is added that not- 

 withstanding the increased consumption shown as above, the 

 future of the article is hard to predict, owing to the largely 

 augmented imports of plantation rubber. 



While .'southern Kamerun has felt the effect of the low prices. 

 it is hoped through the proposed reduction of freights and tlie 

 eventual removal of the export duty to still market the rubber 

 of that district to advantage. 



Business was again extremely active in 1913. the company's 

 turnover having largely increased, while selling prices have 

 fallen. Night work had to be resorted to during a great part 

 of the year in order to keep pace with demand. Ground has been 

 secured for the erection of workmen's dwellings, while posses- 

 sion has been taken of the new business premises at Dresden 

 and Munich. 



Tlie affiliated companies have been doing well, tliuse of Paris 

 and London paying 10 per cent., while those of Stockholm. 

 Copenhagen. Bucharest and Milan have each distributed S per 

 cent. .At Paris a new factory has been erected for the produc- 

 tion of goods hitherto imported, and involving an increase of 

 capital by the equivalent of $200,000 to $600,000. To meet the 

 development of the Australian trade, a new factory is likewise 

 being erected at Sydney. Recent changes in the tariff have im- 

 proved the prospects of the American trade. 



The detailed accounts show gross profits, $3.092,285 ; net 

 profits, $2,188,396. 



THE NETHERLANDS RUBBER INDUSTRY. 



There are in Holland eight rubber goods factories, of which 

 five are somewhat important, altho the total number of workers 

 is said not to equal that of an average-sized German plant. 

 These factories supply only a part of the country's requirements. 

 While this condition is partially due to the low import duty — 

 5 per cent. — it is likewise attributed to the lack of enterprise on 

 the part of Dutch manufacturers. Owing to the keen compe- 

 tition of foreign makers, domestic manufacturers have to sell 



with very small profits. 



Among the principal Xetherlands imports of rubber manufac- 

 tures arc balls, surgical goods of hard and soft rubber, water- 

 proof raincoat materials, rubber shoes, etc., which are not made 

 in Holland. Automobile tires are not yet made to any extent in 

 Dutch factories. It is only within the last few years that some 

 concerns have been trying to introduce an up-to-date tire. 



Suggestions have been made for the erection in Holland of a 

 modern factory for home and export trade. The American ex- 

 ports to that country for the fiscal year 1912 included : Belting, 

 packing and hose, $3,830; boots and shoes (7,658 pairs), $3,442; 

 tires for automobiles. $405; other tires, $100; other rubber goods, 

 $42,810. Total. $50,587. 



CHANGE AT HANOVER SEPARATOR WORKS. 



Herr Heinrich Bormann has retired from his position as one 

 of the business managers of the Hanover Rubber Separator 

 \\'orks. 



NEW RUBBER DEALERS FIRM AT STOCKHOLM. 



Ilerr G. Langborg has opened a dealers' and agency business 

 in rubber goods at Stockholm under the registered firm names 

 of "Gunnar Langborg. .\merikansk Guinmi-Ianport" and "Good- 

 year's Generalagentur. Gunnar Langborg." 



TO PREVENT LOWER PRICES FOR RUBBER GOODS. 



At the annual general meeting of the United Harburg- Vienna 

 rubber factories, it was decided to convene at an early date a 

 meeting of delegates of rubber manufacturers to investigate the 

 steps necessary to arrest the fall in the price of rubber goods. 

 This reduction, it was stated, exceeded the proportionate drop 

 in crude rubber prices. 



WITH THE NORTH BRITISH RUBBER CO. 6.322 YEARS. 



Here is a group picture including about 180 people who have 

 been with the North British Rubber Co. for 6.322 years — not 

 individually, but collectively. But they have all been with the 

 company individually at least twenty-five years (tho some of 

 the girls don't look it). In the group there are nine people 

 each of whom has had over SO years' continuous service, aggre- 

 gating 535 years for the nine, and forty-three with over 40 

 years' service, or an aggregate of 1,919 years. Two of the 

 women shown in the first line have been with the company each 

 57 years, and seven of the men in the second line have worked 

 in this factory for terms running from 50 to 56 years. 



180 Employes — All of Whom Have Beex With the North British Rtbrer Co. Ovfr 2.' ^■E\Rs 



