Ihe SHELL NEWS GOLUMN The biggest steel mill and steel works in Europe; and one of the biggest in the world in fact, is now being built in Wales. It is going to cost L60,000,000, will be five miles long; and will turn out 1,000 0oo tons of steel every Year. For chis enormous undertaking, news has just been received that Shell lubricants are to be used in every stage, beginning wich the quarrying equipment (which will Produce the necessary building material), through- ouc che operation of che mill; and down to the packing and delivery of the finished products The suppliers of the intricare machinery are being instructed that ic must all be initially filled wich the appropriate Shell grades, and these wiil also be used in subsequent operation. The very wide variety of plants invol- ved includes power station machin- ery, locomotives; compressors; more than 6,000 electric motors, crans- formers and other electrical equip- ment; blast furnaces, and many ocher ficments_ Wales may seem a long way from New Zealand, but the establishment of this mammoth undertaking there is news that is of international appeal for throughout the world there is a shortage of steel and once this new mill starts producing ic should help tremendously [Q alleviate So many urgent projects at present held up in numerous different count- ries. The Shell lubricants that are being supplied run into hundreds of differ- ent grades; all of these; however, are available to exactly the same specific- ation in New Zealand and the same research and knowledge that lies behind each one of them applies to every product marketed by Shell throughout the world_ E7.9 Another in the Series ThE SKELL COMPANY OF NZ: LTD (Incorporated in England)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 4
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