Hutchinson (company)
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1853 |
| Seat | Paris |
| management | Jacques Maigné (Chairman and CEO) |
| Number of employees | 43,000 |
| sales | 4.12 billion euros |
| Branch | Plastics industry |
| Website | www.hutchinsonworldwide.com |
| Status: 2018 | |
Hutchinson is an international company for the manufacture and processing of elastomer products.
It produces in 96 plants in 24 countries, generates annual sales of 4.12 billion euros and employs 43,000 people.
history
The company was founded in 1853 by Hiram Hutchinson . This was an American engineer who had acquired exclusive rights to Charles Goodyear's patent on vulcanization . He then founded two plants for the industrial processing of rubber in Montargis / France in 1853 and in Mannheim in 1856 . First, rubber boots and rubberized fabrics for clothing and industrial applications, u. a. for airship hulls.
Further branches in Spain and Italy followed. In 1903, Hutchinson became a public company with headquarters in Paris . The Hutchinson Group has been part of the Chemical Division (ATOFINA) of the French Total Group since 1974 .
Today, numerous products are made on the basis of natural and synthetic rubber for the automotive , aviation , industrial and consumer goods sectors , with the exception of car tires. Resistant plastics and metals are also increasingly used in rubber-metal connections.
Web links
- Hutchinson, German website
- Rhein-Neckar industrial culture: Hutchinson in the Mannheim industrial port. Retrieved December 7, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint of www.hutchinsonworldwide.com (English)
- ↑ a b Hutchinson: Our Group. Retrieved January 19, 2019