HALF-YEAR RECORD SET
RAYON PRODUCTION IN AMERICA
Domestic rayon production, in the first six months of 1946,. set a new half-year record with a total of 425,000,000 pounds, an increase of 8 per cent, over 1945 and 7 per cent, over the final half of last year, Rayon Economics Bureau, Inc., reported recently.
' Second quarter production, adversely affected by the’ coal, rail and other strikes, was estimated at 212,200,000 pounds, slightly below the record first quarter. level and 5.8 per cent, ahead of the second quarter of 1945.
Rayon • filament yarn production at 166,900,000 pounds during the second quarter was 1 per cent, 'below first quarter output. Second quarter viscose cupra yarn output was 2\ per cent, below first quarter level. In contrast, second quarter acetate yarn production attained a new quarterly record, exceeding the former peak level established in the first quarter by 2 per cent. Similarly staple fibre output set a new record, 4 per cent, above the first quarter.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 54, 25 November 1946, Page 10
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162HALF-YEAR RECORD SET Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 54, 25 November 1946, Page 10
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