RAYON INDUSTRY

Evening Star, Issue 23665, 27 August 1940, Page 6

RAYON INDUSTRY

NEW BRITISH ORGANISATOH PROMOTION OF WARTIME EXPORTS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, August 25. Bristol rayou manufacturers are organised into one of the strongest export groups formed with the approval of the Board of Trade for tue promotion of Britain’s wartime exports. The vitality and initiative of this young British industry hold consderable significance for that part of the world which has been cut off by Hitler’s war from other centres of supply for rayoji goods. Rayon piece goods or their equivalent in yarn to the extent of nearly 250.000. square yards are exported every year to the rest of the world from countries in Europe which are now isolates! by Nazi aggression from these markets. About three-fifths of this trade, which is valued at about £10,000,000, was formerly held by Italy, Germany did part of it and the rest belonged to her now helpless victims—the Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Czeeho-Slovakia, apart from the share taken by Switzerland. The outside world is how dependent upon Britain, the United States and Japan to make up the supplies of which Hitler deprived - it. In the case of countries in the southern and central American continent it is estimated that they will want something approaching 100.000. square yards every year to replace what they can no longer obtain from their former suppliers so long as Hitler’s decree keeps idle the valuable plant and trained workers of Europe’s continental ravon industry.