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expected to be in operation by the end of this year. The following table shows the local production and consumption of cement during the years 1939-1946:-

Production, Deliveries to local markets, net imports and apparent consumption of cement, up to April 1947. (in tons)

Period

-I Total local production | Assumed local
(a)

(1) 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946

(2) (3)

110,119 107,207

136,675 148,015

114,935 113,621

217.387 213,031

175,548 162,943

158,579 170,495

151,022 140,220

254,780 261,429

(a) Total deliveries less exports. (b) Imports less re-exports.

Net imports (b)

Apparent consumption

(1)

96,681 9,765 H,U26 2,292

9 1 15 lG,787

(5)~(3 4) 143,888 157,780 117,547 215,323 162,952 170,496 140,235 278,216

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A new cement factory is being erected at Har Tuv by Messrs. Shimshon Ltd. and the erection of two ancillary factories, one for asbestos cement materials and one for paper bags, is also contemplated by the company. The Arab Cement Works Co. Ltd. is undertaking the erection o[ a cement factory at Ramleh.

New factories for the manufacture and supply of concrete blocks, slabs and bricks, artificial marble and marble face blocks, were erected in Haifa Bay by Messrs. Isaac Mandelblit Ltd. Some 140 workers are employed.

GLASS.

The following table shows the output of glass over the past four years:-

I Sheet glass not I % or

Year less than 4 mms. total

thickness output

1942/431 866.21 I 51 51 344.43 I 48.5
1943/44 250.90 28.5 631.18 71.5
1944/46 598.31 31 4 1,306.86 68.6
1945/46 911.20 28.8 2,254.76 71.2
Metric tons


Total

Metric tons

710.64 882.08 1,905.17 8,165.96
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