The
year 1946, an enterprising entrepreneur, Shri. Lallubhai
Makanji Patel, ebullient with his ideas, identified
the need for Plant Protection. Shri. Patel took over
a small workshop under the banner, "American Spring
and Pressing Works", retained the same name and
began the production of Rotary Dusters in the year 1947.
He went on developing more and more sophisticated Agriculture
Sprayers, Dusters and other Appliances needed for agriculture
and public health. This he did with the help of its
own R&D Department.
Economizing pesticide dose for
environmental consideration, reducing drudgery in operation
and increasing the efficacy of spray suspensions received
uppermost considerations in design and development of
spraying appliances. The large array of such appliances
developed by M/s American Spring and Pressing Works
Ltd. Earned immense popularity among farmers of India
throughout the length and breadth of our country with
the result that a sapling planted by Shri. L.M. Patel
became a full-grown tree in about half a century in
his own lifetime.
Shri. L.M. Patel himself being a
son of a farmer leading a simple life, always considered
his obligation to work for the welfare of farmers from
whom he earned. He therefore established the ASPEE Agriculture
Research and Development Foundation and ASPEE Research
Institute with the funds of Rs.7.90 crores to conduct
research in agriculture and agroequipment and extended
the technologies to the farming community.
The origin, developed and revolutionization
of crop protection appliances in India have become synonymous
with Shri. L.M. Patel and M/s American Spring and Pressing
Works Ltd. So pioneering and rich are the contributions
of Late Shri. L.M. Patel to this field that the Annals
of Crop Protection Appliances in India would be incomplete
without the name Shri. L.M. Patel in red letters. Head
Office
The ASPEE Group of Companies
comprises of:

Mumbai.

Bilimora - May, 1972.
A subsidiary company was launched at Bilimora, a cozy little
village of Antalia in Gujarat state to assist
M/s. American Spring & Pressing
Works Ltd. to meet the increasing demands.

Tansa - September, 1978. The need to
manufacture Spare Parts at economic prices lead to
the inception of this plant at Bilimora. to manufacture
spare parts of equipment manufactured by American
Spring and Aspee Agro.

Tansa - May, 1982. In a bid to further production,
Aspee set up this new unit in the heart of picturesque
Tansa. The unit aimed to enhance supply of equipment.
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