Mom faro Wax: New British Export
Three thousand tons of montan wax, a valuable lignite by-product, are expected to be produced annually from a large deposit in Bovey Tracey, West England.
This output will prove a useful addition to Britain’s exports to hard currency areas, since shipments of the material to the USA and Canada will probably reach a yearly value of 2,000,00,’) dollars.
> There are vast fields of lignite in the USA, Canada, Australia and other countries, but most of them are barren of montan wax, which, because of its special uses in insulation, commands a high price—about £3OO a ton. A new undertaking, British Lignite Products Ltd., has been formed to develop the deposit. The plant is now being built at Bovey Tracey at a cost of £500.000, but it may be some time before it is completed and some nine months before the montan wax is derived on a commercial scale.
Montan wax will be a new export for Britain, which has hitherto obtained supplies of this material from overseas at a cost of some £5,000 monthly.
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Northern Advocate, 28 August 1947, Page 3
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