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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17430, 15 April 1922, Page 15

A NEW INDUSTRY. PUNTS AND VARNISHES FROft FLAX WASTE. An interesting and effectively* »r----raoged exhibit in the window of Mr R.. B. .McKenzie'a auctioneering premises. Gaßhel atreatj has been attracting ft considerftMe amount of attention for* Bbnie days ptet;lt consists ; of eamplej of paints and varnishes, and the object is to get the public interested ill- a' new industry about to ■ bjs started in 'Ohrotchurch by Flax Byproduct Ointptrnj. The , pwnte and vafnishe# which are exhibited iwre based on the tttilisatiott of the waste products of flax and, affording, ■ • to tsstS" which have been made, the®© paintsand valmishes £r* much superior * imported. ®ie''green vegetation and ©utinous 'wastei which flaxmillers in the past have had difficulty in disnosihk of, can now be looked upon as an asaet of considerable value. Fwra these waato products the Flax Byproduct Company is able to build: ap tin oil of bu<& density as only to require three pounds of pigment to the nUon of paint, as compared with 9lbs pigment required for linseed .oil tn«l An important additional feeis* thatthe oost of manufacture is leaa than one-half of the coet of maatt*. factoring linseed oil-paints. The camples ou exhibition show a and erftat penetrating and coverthe fabta lit oormexion wyh paints toredsfrom flax by-|«roduCT« is ! TiiM>'!6f 'White toad ia entirely t is attached \*&iinSa^'Posaßaßed ; bytw jati&uoed next eeraion of Pariiathe w of whito tnr inside oirticulara, and ; oopiea ot the prosjSSaToftho . - • -*■ "»■—'- 1 - 4*