TINNED FOODS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1934, Page 11

TINNED FOODS

GROWTH OF INDUSTRY

"f The growth of the British tinning industry, which began to be marked in 1927, has continued steadily since, and again was a feature' in the past year," writes Mr. Percy W. D. Izzard in the "Daily Mail Year Book. "' ; .

"The industry now not only supplies a vast quantity of home-produced .fruit and vegetables to the home population, but also sends the products of: its fifclds and orchards increasingly to.all parts of the Empire. •

"la 1932 the number of tinning factories in England and Wales was .72; in 1933 it exceeded .80. These factories were handling nearly twenty different fruits arid as many different vegetables, as well as the popular baked beans with pork, and tinned fish and roasted fowls. A feature, of 1933 was the fine quality of the fruit which reached the tinners, experts describing the, season's output as 'a vintage pack.' ~:''.. ' ■ "The tinning season begins with gooseberries, followed quickly by, strawberries, and it ends with danisoiis and, in the few factories dealing particularly with apples in large quantities, solid paeksof that fruit in gallon cans.. The' industry has1 been of immense benefit to the tinplate trade, as .well as to fruit and vegetable growers. In addition, it has beguni through its exports, a flow of overseas trade which may well become highly important, in '"future years. ■ ■ , , : ■ ■::.;,, '.■.'.

"The_ scope for expansion of the industry in the United, Kingdom can be gathered from the fact that in 1932 record figures of imports of canned fruit in syrup, totalling over 3,200,000 cwt, were attained. Considering the quantity of fruit now tinned in Britain, this would seem to show that people are consuming much, more tinned produce than formerly." v . ."They are, in fact, doing so, arid there has been,undoubtedly a strengthening of confidence in tinned foodstuffs generally, following public knowledge of the work of : scientists to render such produce perfectly safe and wholesome. 'The following figures'show clearly how our tinning industry has grown since arid including 1927•-£- ■■■:.'■

'■'■■■■ .■'•' .■'■ ,I^-uit. , Vegetables. ':' .■'■ '-; Tins. : /Tins. mi 5,540,000 2.300,000 : iooo' ■••-,'" 6)370' 000 1,560,000 "23 -.!.'.;. 10,920,000 6,420 000 1930 ........ 19,160,000 u'o4o 000 27,000,000 56,000,000 193.2 ........ 36,000,000 60,000,000-,. "The output in 1933 will considerably exceed 100 ; 000,000 tins. These figures are for England and Wales "