SILK OF GLASS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 304, 12 May 1941, Page 3

SILK OF GLASS

USED FOR SAVING HEAT BEING MADE FOR BRITAIN Glass silk is now being, sent overseas from Great Britain in increasing quantities. The manufacturer exported 250 per cent more of it last year than in 1939. It is used for saving heat. Not less than 75 per cent of the heat created cach year by millions of tons of fuel is wasted. This specially manufactured glass silk is, perhaps the most efficient material for stopping such wastage in domestic quipment like boilers, pipes and stoves. In the past few months, this glass silk insulating material, which is unaffected by temperatures tip to 900 degrees Fahrenheit, has been shipped from. Great Britain to South Africa and Calcutta in the Icrm of balnkets; as mattresses to hast India (for railway locomotives) ?n/d to North-West India (foi insulating petrol wagons); in rigid sections to New Zealand, Trinidad, and Portugal, and, in sheets, for separating the positive and negative plates of electric accumulators, lo Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Eire. Various other glass silk products have been recently despatched to Arabia and the whole of the l insulating material required for the new Bulawayo Hospital 1 and Nurses' Home, Rhodesia, will consist of British-made' silk.