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| | MRF Exports | Corporate | Milestones |
 | | A young entrepreneur, K. Mammen Mappillai, opened a small toy balloon-manufacturing unit in a shed at Tiruvottiyur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. |
 | | On June 12, 1963, India's first Prime Minister, Late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone for the Rubber Research Centre at Tiruvottiyur to commemorate the inauguration of the factory. |
 | | The main plant was commissioned in 1964; MRF ventures into the export market by setting up an overseas office at Beirut (Lebanon) to develop this market, which was amongst India's very first efforts in export. |
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