Haichow Road Plant Equipped wth the latest and most up-to-date machinery from Germany, anew board mill; which has been hamed "Volth," was formally opened on Jan, 24 by' the China Fibre Container Ca., Fed. "Me, US.A., at 11:30 am. at 273 Haichow Rond." A large crowd of foreign and Chinese officials and businessmen Interested. In the manufacture of paper attended the reception which preceded a tour of the: works, Dr. F. Bauer, of Carlowitz & Ca, which furnished the machinery and equipment for the now mill, made a brief speech describing the new plant, Mr. A. E. Mandel, president of the China Fibre Container Ca, replying. "Among those present' were 'Messrs. A. E. 'Schumacher, second 'Vice-president and manager' of the Chase Bank, H.W. Trick, assistant manager of the Chase Bank, E.G. Zacharias, also. assistant manager of the bank, H. Klyhn, vice-president and secretary of the China Fibre Container Ca., a representative of the Wenchow paper mill project of the Chinese Government, who expressed great interest in the plant, and repre—Sentatives of the Yee Tsoong Tobacco Ca,, and of the major printing houses in, Shanghai, The Chinn Fibro Container Ca. maintains that its new mill is one of the finest, If not the finest, paper mills in the Far Bast. Housed Ino solid concrete, two-storey building, it equipped with the latest type of machinery, and actually began to operate we months ago. A. well, 500 feet deep and one of the deepest
Aurora Company (0 supply the mil Shanghai, "was sun by the with the million gallons of water It Foqulres each day.
Two Shitts The mill now produces an aver of twenty Jong tons of the fr trade Duplex board a day, its star 6 120 men working in two shifts, a day shift and a night shift. The tw storey building was erected by Zee Kow Tal, contractors, to the. plans the architects, Messrs. Graham Painter, Limited, of Shanghai, The piping and the boiler house" were Dulle by King Chang, the automatic stokers in the latter being provided by Mr, Carl A, Bauman, msc, of 133 Yuen Ming Yuen Road.
Although the mill has been working. steadily for the post two months oF 50, the occasion yesterday was the formal opening of the plant and its handing over by Carlowitz & Ca. to the China Fibre Container Ca. The latter, "a large American concern with offices at 273"Halehow Road, manufactures thre shipping cases, corrugated boxes, paper boxes, toilet paper, waterproof packing materials, une Hospital, paper bandages "The electrical motors for" driving! the "plant, some" of which are fof particular" interest inasmuch "as they have automatic features pocu-Var to" paper' machinery, were supplied by Messrs, H. J. Moy-sey, & Ca, Lid. There are some 30 motors amounting to nearly 1,000 lip. and the largest motor driving the paper machine itself is a three-phase communator motor, with speed reg~ ulation of 100 to 800 reams an hour.
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