MRF

The MRF or Madras Rubber Factory is India's No.1 tyre manufacturing company which was started in 1946 by Mr. K M Mammen Mappillai as a small toy balloon unit. And much later in November 1960, it ventured into the manufacturing of the tyres, and soon it entered into a technical collaboration with the Tire & Rubber Company of USA.

In 1964, the company established its first overseas office at Beirut, Lebanon to tap the export market. It was among India's very first efforts on the tyre exports. In 1989, the company collaborated with the US-based Hasbro International which is the world's largest toy maker and then launched Funskool India. In the same year, the company entered into a pact with the Vapocure of Australia to manufacture the polyurethane paint formulations and with Pirelli for the Muscleflex conveyor and the elevator belting.

Currently, the MRF exports tyres are spread across 65 countries, which include America, Europe, Middle East, Japan, and the Pacific region as well. It presently has overseas offices in countries such as Dubai, Vietnam, and Australia.

It manufactures various types of tyres for the passenger cars, and two-wheelers, buses, trucks, tractors, and light commercial vehicles and the off–the–road tyres.

The company manufactures its Muscleflex brand of conveyor belting in one of the most advanced state of the art facilities situated across India. By incorporating the latest manufacturing techniques in processes beginning with mixing, and calendaring & the like to manufacturing of the finished products in which all are the in–house, and Muscleflex – conveyor belting has gained rapid acceptance in markets across the globe.

It is the most advanced precured retreading technology system which is available in India. The MRF has also forayed into retreading as far back as in the year 1970. Currently, MRF has perfected the art of recured retreading with its extensive knowledge in both tyres and rubber.