Ansell Limited can look back on more than a century of leadership and product innovations. Our story spans the globe and brings together companies and technologies, all in the service of meeting protection needs.
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1888 |
John Boyd Dunlop invents the pneumatic tire in Ireland and sets up the successful Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company. It will quickly expand worldwide. |
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1893 |
Dunlop UK establishes a bicycle tyre manufacturing plant in Melbourne Australia. |
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1899 |
Dunlop UK sells its business in Australia and the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company of Australasia Limited is established. |
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1905 |
Eric Norman Ansell acquires the condom machinery owned by his employer the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company of Australasia Ltd. and founded what was to become the Ansell Rubber Company. |
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1920 |
On 16 August, 1920 the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company Of Australasia Ltd changed its name to the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australia Limited and became a listed public company on the Melbourne Stock Exchange. It would subsequently become Ansell Limited. |
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1925 |
Ansell’s rubber product range by now includes household, surgical, and industrial gloves. |
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1929 |
Eric Norman Ansell establishes the first Ansell entity: E. N. Ansell & Sons Pty. Ltd. |
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1933 |
Foundation of the Edmont Manufacturing Company (to become a world leader in industrial hand protection and later an Ansell company). |
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1934 |
The company changed its name from E. N. Ansell & Sons to The Ansell Rubber Co. Pty. Ltd |
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1941 |
Ansell increases research into synthetic rubber compounds and produces gas masks, surgeon’s gloves and meteorological balloons in support of the war effort. |
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1946 |
Ansell develops the first automated glove dipping machine. |
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1960 |
The acquisition of the Nutex Rubber Company of Sydney is the start of a large-scale expansion into the US and European markets. |
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1965 |
Ansell introduces its Gammex® gamma-sterilised disposable surgeon’s glove. |
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1969 |
The Ansell Rubber Co. Pty Ltd is acquired by Dunlop Australia Limited (previously the Dunlop Rubber Co of Australia Ltd). The Group continued under the name “Ansell Rubber company”. |
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1975 |
Start-up of the first offshore manufacturing plant in Melaka, Malaysia, in the midst of a period of explosive growth. |
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1976 |
First exports of household gloves from Melaka to UK. |
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1980s |
A decade of acquisitions worldwide and the establishment of factories in Thailand and Sri Lanka, plus the purchase of factories in the US, UK, Mexico, Germany and France. |
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1989 |
Ansell takes over Edmont, a US-based industrial glove manufacturer, thereby doubling its size. Edmont brings a wealth of expertise in plastic, chemical and synthetic industrial gloves. |
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1991 |
Ansell becomes the world’s largest provider of medical, household and industrial gloves. |
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1995 |
Acquisition of the Perry Glove Division of Smith and Nephew, a leading manufacturer of advanced medical gloves. |
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1997 |
Take-over of Golden Needles Knitting, the largest glove knitting facility in the world. |
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1998 |
Acquisition of Suretex (Thailand and India) condoms and gloves. |
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2000 |
Ansell acquires the Johnson & Johnson medical glove business and acquires the Shah Alam factory. Launch of HyFlex®, the flagship product line in occupational. |
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2002 |
Pacific Dunlop Limited (previously Dunlop Australia Ltd) changes its name to Ansell Limited. Ansell Limited continues to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). |
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2005 |
Ansell celebrates 100 years of protection. |
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2006 |
Ansell acquires Wuhan Jissbon Sanitary Products Company Ltd. (Jissbon), a leading Chinese condom marketer. |
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2007 |
Acquisition of condom businesses in Brazil (Blowtex). Acquisition of condom businesses in Germany /Poland (Unimil). |
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2008 |
Acquisition of military glove maker, Hawkeye Glove Mfg. Inc., in the US. |
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2010 |
New strategy and organization focused on accelerating growth |
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2011 |
Ansell acquires Sandel Medical Industries LLC, an innovator in surgical safety solutions |
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2011 |
Ansell Limited acquires a minority share in Yulex corporation |
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2012 |
Ansell settles acquisition of Trelleborg’s Protective Products Business.Ansell Limited invests in Lakeland Industries, Inc. |
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2012 |
Ansell entered into a multi-year agreement with Koreca Industries, based in Korea |
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2012 |
Ansell settles acquisition of Trelleborg’s Protective Products Business |
| 2012 |
Ansell acquires Comasec SAS and its subsidiaries |