Yearly production Runway in the Skoghall yards Skoghall Sulphite and Sulphate Mills. The sulphite mill was erected in 1914, followed in 1919 by the building of the sulphate mill, previously at Stjerns fors. These two mills are the most up-to-date in the world in their respective branches. Wood goods, sawn and planed: 24,000 standards, 75 % Red, and 25 % White. The chemical industry is also strongly represented at Skoghall, as the company has a large plant for extraction of sulphite spirit, resin, turpentine, etc. from the by-products obtained in the manufacture of wood-pulp. Other works of the company are engaged in making chloride of lime, both for own requirements and for sale, as well as caustic soda and other chemical products. From the charcoal-kilns at Stjernsfors are obtained the following products: tar, turpentine, wood spirit, several special oils, acetate of lime, etc. All the Skoghall products are shipped from Gothenburg and Skoghall (Lake Vänern), rated as the Swedish East Coast shipping district. As the canal connecting lake Vänern with Gothenburg has recently been enlarged, vessels of over 1,000 tons can be loaded at Skoghall for direct shipments. The Uddeholm company also owns six steamers totalling about 4,300 tons DW used for carrying the company's goods to foreign ports, and four motor vessels for the traffic between Skoghall and Gothenburg. Shipping Manufacturers of Heavy Guns and Armourplate Engineering Works and Steel Foundry Norway: Denmark: Principal Agents: Aktiebolaget Bofors Salgskontor, 1, Uranienborgveien, Christiania Kaptajn Th. Erhoff, 1, Christiansborggade, Copenhagen Telegrams: Boforsco, Copenhagen Great Britain: Vernon Proctor & Co., Foster's Buildings, 22, High street, Sheffield France: Holland: Spain: Japan: Telegrams: Bofors, Sheffield Bureau Technique A. Raigorodski, 54, Rue de Clichy, Paris Joh. J. Boelstra, 10, Jan van Nassaustraat, The Hague H. J. Dahlander, Apartado 857, Madrid. Telegrams: Dalander, Madrid The Bofors Works are situated in the Karlskoga mining district of Wärmland, 19 Situation miles north-east of the Lake Vänern. The shipping facilities include railway connection with the mainline to Gothenburg, and the port of Otterbäcken on the Lake Vänern where goods may be loaded direct on seagoing craft. Situated in a celebrated old Swedish iron district whence iron and steel has been sent out to all parts of the world for the past three centuries or more, Bofors itself is one of the oldest works there. The first works of which there is any record was erected in 1646. It is the great expansion of late years, however, since the ordnance department was added to the works in 1878, that has spread the fame of Bofors in wider circles. The installation of the open-hearth Siemens Martin plant, undertaken about the same time, was followed the year after by the discovery of a new method of casting absolutely homogeneous ingots for steel guns. Since that time the Bofors guns have enjoyed an exceptionally high reputation, and during the war the company was obliged to enlarge the works and the facilities enormously in order to supply the noncombatant states with ordnance equipment. All the other departments of the works were at the same time systematically organised and equipped on up-to-date lines. No gunmakers and amourplate manufacturers have at their disposal such fine and suitable rawmaterials for their production as Bofors. Besides the celebrated Central General Mines and ores Swedish ores close at hand, the company owns a large share in the Tuollavaara deposits in Lapland. The excellent properties of these ores may be seen from the following analyses: Departments and annual production The ore from Tuollavaara contains about 34% TiO2, but usually only a couple of thousandth percents of sulphur. The Bofors Works comprise the following departments: 2 Blast Furnaces, output per annum Steelworks with 3 open hearth furnaces of 12, 20 and 30 tons; output 15,000 tons 22,000 |