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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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India-Rubber Interests in Euro 



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THE RUSSIAN AMALGAMATION. 



AST. PETERSBURG correspondc-in of the Financial News 

 ( London) remarks that "even Russia is becoming Amer- 

 icanized, to judge from the tendency developing of late to 

 form Trusts." The despatch describes as an "india-rubber trust" 

 the community of interest established lately between the two great 

 rubber manufacturing companies at St, Petersburg and Riga. 

 [See The Indi.\ Rubber World, August i, 1908 — page 377.]. The 

 Financial Xeics reports the amalgamation with the rubber trust 

 of the important Moscow mercantile house of C. Weyerbusch & 

 Co., a large shareholder in which is A. Bokelmann, who also is a 

 partner in the international banking house of J. W. Junker & 

 Co. (Russian Bank of Foreign Trade), Moscow. Mr. Bokel- 

 mann. with his banking associates, is referred to as having con- 

 ducted, with Baron Friedrich von Krauskopf, the largest share- 

 holder in and president of the Russian-.American India-Rubber 

 Co., the negotiations for the transfer to the latter company 

 of half the share capital of the 



company. 





"Prowodnik" 

 Riga. 



For the purpose of the amal- 

 gamation, according to both the 

 Financial Xcks and the Bor- 

 sen Courier, of Berlin, the 

 Russian-American India-Rub- 

 ber Co, have decided upon the 

 increase of the share capital 

 from 8.000.000 rubles [ = $4,- 

 120,000] to 20,000,000 rubles 

 [=$10,300,000]. Of the in- 

 crease 7,000,000 rubles are re- 

 quired for the purchase of the 

 "Prowodnik" shares, and it is 

 intimated by the Courier that 

 part of the new capital issue 

 will be used for further 

 purchases of "Prowodnik" 

 shares. The Russian-.'\mer- 

 ican India-Rubber Co. had al- 

 ready taken over the St. 

 Petersburg firm of Leopold 

 Neuscheller, controlling a large 

 export trade in Russian rubber 

 goods, at a price stated by the Financial A' 

 rubles [=$1,133,000]. 



The latest balance sheet of the Russian--\merican showed: 

 Share capital outstanding, 8,000,000 rubles ; debentures, 7,079,888 

 rubles; reserve fund. 4,212,839 rubles; second reserve. 3.003,896 

 rubles; total, 22,296,613 rubles [=$11,482,755.70]. The dividend 

 for 1907 was 25 per cent, on the share capital. A Russian news- 

 paper reports that the firm style of the Russian- American com- 

 pany will be amended to include the word 

 "Trigolnik," which is Russian for "triangle," 

 of "three cornered." referring to the com- 

 pany's trade mark now so widely known. 

 The trade mark is illustrated herewitli. 

 *AEPtm, KJiEHiio The initials in it stand for the words wliich 

 form the company's name in Russian, beneath which is "St, 

 Petersburg," in Russian, and below all the words "trade mark." 



THE TRADE IN GERMANY. 



Repcrts from Germany connect the important Harburg-Wien 

 company with a new corporation, capitalized at i.ooo.ooo marks 

 [=$238,210]. the object of which is to obtain rubbers of commer- 

 cial value from minor plants. Every advance in crude rubber 



prices tends to a further study in the utilization of new grades of 

 rubber. Precisely such conditions led to the initial experiment 

 with the Assam and African rubbers, which have been brought 

 into such wide use as to greatly lessen the dependence of the 

 industry upon Para rubber; otherwise the latter quality might 

 now- be selling at double the present figures quoted. The most 

 recent important example in this field was the development of the 

 Guayule rubber interest, in which work the Harburg factory just 

 mentioned took an active share. 



An exhibit which attracted no little attention at the recent ship- 

 building exhibition in Berlin was the display of asbestos wood by 

 Asbest- und Gummiwerke Alfred Calmon (Hamburg). An entire 

 ship's cabin constructed of this material formed part of the ex- 

 hibit. "Asbestos wood" is made with natural wood as a base, 

 covered with the Calmon firm's patented "Eternit.'' It is rep- 

 resented as looking like natural wood, but as having the ad- 

 vantages of being fireproof and resisting heat and cold, while its 



noiselessness is referred to. 

 In addition to its advantages 

 ^_ . lor the construction of walls 



and the like, portable articles 

 made of the new material are 

 not heavier than natural wood. 

 -•Vt a meeting of the directors 

 of the Vereinigten Hanf- 

 >chlauch- und Gummiwaaren- 

 Fabriken Aktiengesellschaft 

 zu Gotha. the president stated 

 that the volume of trading for 

 ihe first five months of 190S had 

 ^qi-.alled the business for the 

 ;anie period of 1907, and all 

 departments of the factory 

 were still active. The pneuma- 

 tic tire factory which the com- 

 [ ; ny opened in the spring was 

 11; ly occupied. 



At a meeting of the Cen- 

 tralverein Deutscher Kaut- 

 schukwaren-Fabriken, in Ber- 

 lin, a proposition from the 

 management of the London 

 Rubber E.xhibition that the 

 German manufacturers be represented by displays at Olympia 

 did not meet with adoption, though supported by a communica- 

 tion from the Kolonial-Wirtschaftliche Komitee. The senti- 

 iTient of the association was that the London exhibition was 

 likely to result in great benefit from the standpoint of the crude 

 rubber and planting classes, but not so much in respect of the 

 manufacturing interests. 



NOTES FROM ATTSTRIA. 



The withdrawal of Josef Reithoffer's Sohne (\'ienna) from 

 the Austrian rubber manufacturers' "cartel," or price convention, 

 will not. the Gnmmi-Zcitung hears, terminate the cartel. Our 

 contemporary regards its continuance as desirable for the trade, 

 from the standpoint of manufacturers and dealers alike, since 

 without its influence the tendency is for so many new concerns 

 to enter the trade as to make profits almost impossible. 



The Vienna firm of Tischler & Co., 4, Werderthorgasse. has 

 become Amerikanische Gimimischuhniederlage Henry H. 

 Holland. The Mr. Holland referred to is the manager of the 

 European depot, in London, of the United States Rubber Co. 



Ludwig C. Henkel. director of the Prager Gummiwaren-Fab- 

 rik. at Vysocan, near Prague, has resigned to accept the position 



\\liRKS OF RuSSI.\N-.\lIERIC.\X IxilLV-RuBBER Co. 



TOBAPIimECTBA POCClflCKO-AMEPnKAHGKOH 

 PESDHOBOfl MAHYOAKTyPM 



[English letter equivalents for the above: towaritchestwa. company; 

 Rossi IS ko-Ameri KAN SKoi. Russian-American; resinowoi. india-rubber; 

 MANUFAKi t'RV. manufactory. ] 



at 2,200.000 



