Trivandrum Rubber Works

{{Short description|Indian manufacturing company}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}} {{Infobox company |name = Trivandrum Rubber Works |logo = |type = |foundation = 1963 |location_city = Thiruvananthapuram |location_country = India |key_people = |num_employees = 163 (As on 2005) |industry = Manufacturing |products = Tread rubber, Cycle tyres, etc. |revenue = |location = |locations = |area_served = |services = |parent = |divisions = |subsid = |dissolved = |footnotes = |operating_income = |net_income = |homepage = }}

'''Trivandrum Rubber Works''' is a public sector manufacturing industry in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pillai|first=V. Gangadharan|title=The public sector in Kerala: administrative problems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kp4EAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Trivandrum+Rubber+Works%22|year=1980}}</ref> Its manufactured products include, retreaded metals, bonding gum and unvulcanised sheets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpe.kerala.gov.in/pages/BPE%20Doc/66.pdf|title=TRIVANDRUM RUBBER WORKS LIMITED|publisher=BPE Planning & Economic Affairs Department, Government of Kerala|accessdate=22 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Modern Technology of Rubber and Allied Industries|date = January 2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dyPxF2JHtzoC&dq=%22Trivandrum+Rubber+Works%22&pg=PA496|publisher=National Institute of Industrial Research, New Delhi|isbn = 9788186623244}}</ref> It was promoted by Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ksidc.org/KSIDC-assisted-units.php |title=Untitled Document |accessdate=2010-05-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326091255/http://www.ksidc.org/KSIDC-assisted-units.php |archivedate=2010-03-26 }}</ref>

==History== The factory was opened by Sree Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, the then King of Travancore Kingdom, to manufacture rubber sheets for tents for the soldiers of the Second World War.<ref name="hindu_jan06">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/25/stories/2006012508330400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022112300/http://hindu.com/2006/01/25/stories/2006012508330400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 October 2007|title=Trivandrum Rubber Works on the verge of closure|date=25 January 2006|work=The Hindu|accessdate=22 May 2010}}</ref> It is located on {{convert|13.28|acre|m2}} of land at Chakkai, Thiruvananthapuram.

Trivandrum Rubber Works was the first factory to be set up in the public sector in Asia.<ref name="hindu_jan06" />

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Category:Companies based in Thiruvananthapuram Category:1963 establishments in Kerala Category:State agencies of Kerala Category:Indian companies established in 1963 Category:Rubber industry Category:Government-owned companies of Kerala