MILL TO WORK ROUND CLOCK

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31634, 21 March 1968, Page 22

MILL TO WORK ROUND CLOCK

(New Zealand Press Association)

AUCKLAND, March 20.

U.E.B. Industries, Ltd, will put its new Napier woollen mill on to a seven-day week and a 24-hour day, to produce sufficient carpet yarn and carded sliver, mostly for export.

The s2m mill at Awatoto works five days a week at present. As the mill has not yet achieved full efficiency, the

increase in production could ultimately reach 50 per cent. The extra output at Awatoto would not only provide the yarn for the company’s carpet manufacturing plants, but also make available yarn and sliver for export to overseas carpet and yarn manufacturers, the company’s man-aging-director (Mr J. H. Gemmell) said today. Th; carpet plants aimed to export nearly s2m worth of carpet in the next year, he said. The Awatoto mill would have worked to round-the-clock operation by mid-July, and blanket and fabric production at the 50-year-old Napier Woollen Mill would be phased out in the next few months and the factory closed.

The Napier weaving activities would be transferred to the group’s Ross and Glendining mill in Dunedin. Everything the Napier mill made now could be done more efficiently and faster in Dunedin, Mr Gemmell said. The first major export order for 60.0001 b of carpet yarn would be shipped from Napier this week. It was valued at $53,500 and would go to Taiwan, he said.