DOMINION PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3195, 20 September 1917, Page 8

DOMINION PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY

,'A New Zealand'- industry of considerable value is the manufacture of cement aB carried on by the Dominion Portland Cement Company in; North Auck fnd It is claimed for Dominion Portland cement that its quality will bear conparison with'-the weld's ■beet. It_ wi 11 a so'compare with - the otherjfiretfCla.s cements as regards to cost TM company has great advantages as to material and manufacturing power. The rock supply and the Wairua Falls supPies the motive power at. a rate Assists in the cheapening of the manufac faring cost. The manufacturing plant has iLn designed by. men whe.have, profited bv large experience. Before start fnfupon thf erection of their worto the Sectors' engaged a cement exsert and sentto and one of their own number on an extended tour through all the leadtag cement manufacturing countries in Europe and America-Great' Britain the United States, Canada. Germany, Aurto and Denmark. The iMssumen.interviewed the most prominmi experts of those countries and obtained riband nropoeitions from many sources, i Ulti- , SlTit ™ 4«ded by the director.i to v entrust' the designing of the mill to the ' Fuller Engineering Company, of -America, which has designed and erected a number of .the most successful nulls now m operation in the United States the mill has been proved capable of produc300 tons of finished, cement per diem, and the facilities provided for the shipment of its output are of the very handiest, large Tcssels beinj; able to.be h at the company's wharf and con\ey the cement to any port where it may be xe- - qu?red of the mill at- its full capacity demands 2200. horse-power. The generation .of that amount of steam-power would involve an. expenditure of MM annually upon '££. Hence the determination of the company'to utilise the Wairua Falls and Z obtain hydro-electric power at a frac- ■■■ tionof the cost of steam. That the imil- . 1 tude of mechanical devices employed in hworks has reached the hwhert stage of mechanicalperfectmn by the fact that the very first bag of cement turned out by the company proved to be of the highest quality and passed the British'standard. In the six months during which tho mill has been running, not one bag of inferior cement has been proceed by tho machinery-a testimony alike to the excellence of the raw materials employed and to tho (boroughSo of the company's methods of manu-faeturc.-(Published by Arrangement).