Dr Jt 0. Porster, a member and director of the technical committee of British Dyes, Ltd., sjioko in London recently on the decay and renascence of British dyemaking. Ho said that as ion? ago as 18<8 the coal tar colours produced by the world were valued at 4:3,150,000. 1 ranee and Switzerland each produced .tJdO 000; worth, England £150,000 worth, and Germany £2,000,00fl worth, of which folir-, fifths were exported, forty years ago the Germans were four times as powerful a* we were in the matter of this industry. It would take us 10 or 15 years of unremitting labour, extraordinary • patience, and what a few years ago would have been called prodigal expenditure on chemists and chemistry betoro wc could hope to reach a position at all approaching that of the Herman before the war in this industry. Germany had three times ns many professors of chemistry as wo had, nn'd it would mean a great effort on our part if we were going to catch up with the Germans. "The dye industry is not an Eldorado in which one has to dig once in order to make countless thousands,"! he added. "Money must be spent on experiments. That is how Germany built up the industry."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 76, 24 December 1918, Page 6
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