Plymouth
- Leading INDUSTRIAL FACILITY in RUBBER AND PLASTICS PROCESSING
- Based in Feyzin, LYON / staff of 90
- Site covering 100,000 m² including 25,000 m² of buildings
- MULTIPLE STRATEGIC SECTORS:Rubber, Recycling, Construction, Coating/lamination fabric treatment
- INNOVATIVE BY TRADITION for over 80 years
- Registered capital: €1,761,000
- 1935: Plymouth Française founded
- 1997 Plymouth Tunisia founded
- 100% Independent French ownership
- Turnover: €12 million
- International dimension: 45% turnover on Export market
- 3000 Tonnes of materials processed
- Integrated R&D and Laboratory
- ISO 9001 – CERTIFIED SME
Plymouth is a centre of expertise and know-how in the rubber and plastics processing sectors:
1. Elastic support for manufacturing woven, non-woven textile apparel and disposable diapers
2. Flat seams and thin rubber sheets for industrial and medical applications
3. Underground network markings, protection and detection
4. Textile substrate coating and complexing
5. Production offcuts recycling
Cool Timeline
- 1997
- Jan 03
Plymouth Tunisia founded
- 1950
Jan 031950s – New technologies, new materials
After 1945, Plymouth’s rubber industrial base expanded and created an extensive range of products.Taking the leap from rubber to plastic was a natural choice, as both materials, one natural, the other synthetic, require the same industrial formulation and processing know-how.
- 1935
Jan 03foundation – from the USA to the Lyon region
Plymouth Française SA was the result of a novel idea and the meeting of 2 continents, Europe and North America.Five firms in the textile industry – weavers and ribbon weavers from the Lyon region, heavy users of elastic yarn – turned to America; they decided to join forces with a rubber processing specialist:Plymouth Rubber Company (Massachusetts) to set up a facility at Feyzin, to the south of Lyon and serve the elastic yarn markets throughout Europe.