A NEW INDUSTRY

Shannon News, 29 November 1927, Page 3

A NEW INDUSTRY

METAL CHEESE CONTAINERS

The manufacture of metal contain :rs for cheese is to be commenced in Hawera next month, and for this purpose the company handling the containers has arranged a lease with the Winter Show Co. for a space in the main hall of the Winter Show build iugs, where the plant for manufacturing the containers will be installed. The plant is being manufactured in Sydney, and Mr. Reynolds, a representative of the company, w'ho has hern in Hawera for some time, will proceed to Australia next week an 3 return, with the plant.

Supplies of sheet metal will be received in Hawera, and bo stamped in two halves, and the containers made -lightly convex across the top, , that when the containers are evacuated the outside air pressure will convert the convexity into a concavity, thereby consolidating the cheese.

After being stamped .at the Hawera depot the containers will bo delivered to the factories at a cost of 2/6, which includes the royalty charged, and every facility is to be given dairy factories ro make use of the process and test it out, especially in the way of making trial shipments by dispatching portions of their outputs packed in containers to allow of a comparison being made.