![1946](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1946.png)
1946
K. M. Mammen Mappillai started MRF’s journey as a toy balloon manufacturing unit in a shed in Tiruvottiyur in Madras in 1946.
![1949](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1949.png)
1949
By 1949, the company was making latex cast toys, gloves and contraceptives and established its first office at 334, Thambu Chetty Street, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India.
![1952](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1952.png)
1952
MRF’s venture into the manufacture of tread rubber in 1952 put them on the road and into the big leagues.
![1956](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1956.png)
1956
By 1956, within 4 years, MRF was the market leader of tread rubber in India with a 50% share.
![1961](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1961.png)
1961
1961 proved to be a fruitful year. MRF became a public company, established a technical collaboration with the Mansfield Tyre & Rubber Company based in USA and then the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Mr. K. Kamaraj released the first tyre from MRF’s new pilot plant at Tiruvottiyur.
![1963](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1963.png)
1963
Pandit Nehru laid the foundation stone for the Rubber Research Centre at Tiruvottiyur on June 12, 1963, commemorating the inauguration of the Tiruvottiyur factory.
![1964](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1964.png)
1964
MRF set up an overseas office at Beirut in 1964, one of India’s first efforts at exporting tyres and to build an identity. The MRF Muscleman was born.
![1967](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1967.png)
1967
MRF became the first Indian company to export tyres to the very birthplace of tyre technology, the United States.
![1970](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1970.png)
1970
MRF opened its second plant at Kottayam.
![1946](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1946.png)
K. M. Mammen Mappillai started MRF’s journey as a toy balloon manufacturing unit in a shed in Tiruvottiyur in Madras in 1946.
![1949](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1949.png)
By 1949, the company was making latex cast toys, gloves and contraceptives and established its first office at 334, Thambu Chetty Street, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India.
![1952](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1952.png)
MRF’s venture into the manufacture of tread rubber in 1952 put them on the road and into the big leagues.
![1956](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1956.png)
By 1956, within 4 years, MRF was the market leader of tread rubber in India with a 50% share.
![1961](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1961.png)
1961 proved to be a fruitful year. MRF became a public company, established a technical collaboration with the Mansfield Tyre & Rubber Company based in USA and then the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Mr. K. Kamaraj released the first tyre from MRF’s new pilot plant at Tiruvottiyur.
![1963](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1963.png)
Pandit Nehru laid the foundation stone for the Rubber Research Centre at Tiruvottiyur on June 12, 1963, commemorating the inauguration of the Tiruvottiyur factory.
![1964](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1964.png)
MRF set up an overseas office at Beirut in 1964, one of India’s first efforts at exporting tyres and to build an identity. The MRF Muscleman was born.
![1967](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1967.png)
MRF became the first Indian company to export tyres to the very birthplace of tyre technology, the United States.
![1970](https://www.mrftyres.com/images/history/1970.png)
MRF opened its second plant at Kottayam.