Plasson Industries Ltd. is a global manufacturer of plastic fittings for plastic pipes used in water distribution systems, gas conveyance systems, industrial fluid transfer and wastewater systems, and mines. Additionally, its division 'Plasson Poultry' is a leading manufacturer of systems for

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. The company’s shares are traded on the

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and are included in the TA-100 Index.

History

Plasson was founded in 1964, by the members of the Maagan Michael

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, a collective community located 30 km south of

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, on the

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coast. Realizing that farming was becoming more dependent on technology, Plasson developed transportation cages and drinkers for poultry and later, a range of fittings for plastic pipes now used in agriculture, industry, mines, sewage, municipal water systems, gas conveyance and telecommunications. The driving force behind the founding of Plasson was Itzik Kantor, who brought in injection molding machines for the production of plastic products, initially household items such as buckets and waste bins. One of its original patents was the

dual flush toilet A dual flush toilet is a variation of the flush toilet that uses two buttons or a handle mechanism to flush different amounts of water. The purpose of this mechanism is to reduce the volume of water used to flush different types of waste. The d ...

, a plastic toilet tank which could be emptied using two different quantities of water. The company’s headquarters and one of its manufacturing plants is still located at Maagan Michael, an additional production plant is located at Kabri in the north of Israel. In 1996, Plasson had an

initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investm ...

(IPO) and listed its shares on the

. Proceeds from the IPO were used to expend its operations globally, acquiring or establishing manufacturing plants in

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and

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. Additionally, the company opened sales and marketing offices in the

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and

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. Over the years, Plasson has been investing heavily in

research and development Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in some countries as OKB, experiment and design, is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products. R&D constitutes the first stage ...

activities, registering dozen of patents, which has given the company a

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in international markets.Plasson Industries Ltd Patents
on Patent Genius

References

External links

Plasson global website

Plasson UK website

Plasson poultry systems website
{{TA 100 companies Agriculture companies of Israel Companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

History

See also

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