I have bought 4 washing machines from Lohashilpi for lot rubber sheet washing being done at various locations. We wash rubber sheets which are affected by fungus and sell them as RSS 4. After I started using Lohashilpi’s machine, there are tremendous savings in labour. I need only 2 workers in the place of 10 (that I used to previously employ) to meet my daily requirement of washing rubber sheets. Moreover, the sheets are cleaner when washed using this machine than when the cleaning is done manually. I am able to wash 7 tonnes of rubber sheets per day on one machine operated by a single worker. The time required to wash one sheet is only 1 second. The machine supplied by Lohashilpi barely requires any service.

Saleem
Al-Ameen Traders

The conventional rubber sheeting machines were affecting the labour force at our estate. The tappers used to do the sheeting in the afternoons and then they were pretty tired for the tapping. This was also affecting the yield of the trees. These machines took nearly 3 hours to produce about 100 – 150 sheets. I have the first Rubber Sheeting Battery of Lohashilpi at my estate. A huge problem was solved for me because the tappers don’t do the sheeting anymore; my ordinary labourers do the sheeting. Using this machine, I can do about 500 – 600 sheets in an hour. Now I also collect latex from outside and do sheeting and sell my sheets at RSS 1X grade. I plan to buy one more of this machine from Lohashilpi shortly so that I can increase the production in my estate. The quality of sheets has improved so much. You get even kind of sheets with a beautiful shape and the ribbing of the sheets is to the maximum. On a manual rubber roller or a motorized rubber roller, you cannot rib the sheets as much as you rib on this machine. I produce RSS 1X sheets which give a premium above the RSS 4 rates. Another big advantage of this machine made by Lohashilpi is that the sheet made out of this machine can be smoked out of the smoke house much earlier than a sheet made from the conventional machine. Normally it would take about 4 to 5 days for a sheet to be smoked out of a smoke house whereas the sheet made by this machine can be smoked out within maximum 3 days.

K. J. Thomas
Mannarkkad