South, Wales is sharing .with. America orders for the equipment of new tinplate • mills abroad. The high price of Welsh ! plates has apparently had the effect of ' inducing foreign capital to e,mbarK ; rather extensively m the tinplate Indus- ' try. At any rate France, which ban long : been one of qur best customers, la now ■ arranging to piaKe pIAW6 for herself and ' has ordered fpom Welsh, firms the neces- > sary machinery for fitting out mills. 1 Plant is also being obtained In Wa*es j for the pappose of .establishing works In ; India, Rumania, and several s of our j Colonies. Jn each case the moat up-to-date eqqlpm e nt is stipulated for. Jt *8 not pj-pbable that any of these undertakings will become very productive for at lpagt t\vo years. But each Of them represents a future competitor for south Wales to relpkpn !
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15321, 17 September 1920, Page 6
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