an active year of business comes almost to an end. While the rubber production is at its peak, most companies in Europe are on Christmas vacations already. We would like to use a moment in peace to put our work at the side and send you our special thanks. Your support and accuracy is what we are building our business on and what we need to fulfill the continuous growing requirements on especially quality and reliability. We sincerely hope to count on your support in future, to continue and further grow our business relationship. Thank you, for your ongoing efforts!
Our business plan for the next year is fully packed, there is much to do and we are looking forward to it. There is one special thing we would like to call your attention to. We are supporting the “Sustainable Natural Rubber – Initiative” [SNR-i] under the framework of the International Rubber Study Group [IRSG]. The initiative is promoting sustainability along the value chain of natural rubber. A working group has established a self declaration document with following criteria:
• Support improvement of productivity
• Enhance natural rubber quality
• Support forest sustainability
• Water management
• Respect human and labour rights
The mentioned topics are not only taken up by industrial consumers, but also from NGOs who are asking for an industrial standard for rubber.