RAYON YARN INDUSTRY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 9, 19 September 1944, Page 6

RAYON YARN INDUSTRY

BRITISH FIRM MAY START IN

AUSTRALIA

Ihc big British textile and rayon manufacturers Courtaulds, Ltd. were prepared to spend £5,000,000 to establish a factory in Australia to make rayon yarns, ? the chairman of directors of Bond's Industries Ltd., Mr W. He rman Slade, said recent ly. ' The factory ? he said would employ 5000 workers directly arid at least a similar number indirectly, and would be one of the largest industrial concerns, in this country. Some of the raw material would be but much wo.ukl he Australian»groAvn ( particularly that from which cellulose Avas derived. In England Courtaulds had bought an entire testing plant for in Avhich they had installed more than 100 s OOO spindles. They had also taken over a wool-spinning plant for experimentation on woo] fibres. Mr Slade, was speaking at a dinner to chiefs and, Parna-« matta-Granville industrialists held in Parramatta ToAvn Hall, in aid of the Anzac House Appeal. He warned Australian manufacturers against post-war complacency and said that the public AA'ould not always be satisfied A\ 7 ith goods, of war-time quality.

"There will fiave to lie very great changes in Australian manufactures after the war," lie reuarketl. "The public will demand better quality goods, f and manufacturers who do not produce them will get nowhere.. 5 '

Furniture makers -would, have to be prepared to meet big competition Mr Slade added. American manu-' faeturers -were expecting the production of aluminium at 7 ccnts a pound alter the Avar. On those fig' ure.s ) I'urniture makers would uiv al)ie to cojnpete with their plywood products.