CHROME-TREATMENT OF STEEL
REPORTED NEW ZEALAND VENTURE Three plants to exploit a cheap warhorn British method of chrome-treating steel are to be built in New Zealand by a £300.000 company with New Zealand capital, says a dispatch to the “Melbourne Herald" from its Wellington correspondent. published early this month. “This method.” continues the report, “gives mild steel a surface which can be polished as stainless steel and resists corrosion and high temperatures. Holders in the New Zealand concession say that while a stainless steel sink now costs £9, a chromised steel sink would cost only £2 ss. Plans have been completed for factories in Wellington.'Auckland, and Christ-
church, with production in 12 months.'
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25903, 8 September 1949, Page 6
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