History

1935 - origins - from the United States to the Lyon region

Plymouth Française SA was born of an original idea and the meeting of two continents: Europe and North America.

Five textiles manufacturers, weavers and ribbon makers in the Lyon region, who were large consumers of elastic thread, turned to the US. They decided to join forces with the Plymouth Rubber Company (Massachusetts), a specialist in rubber processing, to create a facility in Feyzin, south of Lyon to meet the demand for elastic thread Europe-wide.

The fifties - New techniques, new materials

After 1945, Plymouth expanded its industrial rubber base and spawned a wide range of products.

The gap is quickly bridged between rubber and plastics since both these materials, one natural, one synthetic both require the same industrial in formulation and transformation know-how.