1976 December
ASPEE Multicrop Axial Flow Thresher

Knowing ASPEE's potentiality, International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines who developed an Axial Flow Thresher, offered their know-how to manufacture the threshers in India for the benefit of the farmer. 

ASPEE's Technical Director, Shri. Sharad Patel and other two engineers went to manila to study the threshers. ASPEE soon launched the first high speed Axial Flow Paddy Thresher, which was subsequently modified. Thresher threshes jowar, bajra, soyabean, sorbhum, wheat and pulses.