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842
x. manufacturing industries of 8wedbn.
ing 10,337 workmen. The
manufacture, estimated in
value at 10,412,000 kronor,
included 1,158,084 quintals
of fire- and facade bricks,
1,964 quintals of floor- and
wall tiles, 225,601 quintals
of pipes and parts of piping
as well as 286 million
ordinary bricks and clinkers,
and 28 million pan-tiles. —
There were 10 stone- and
earthenware factories, with
436 employees and a
production value of 1,238,00(1
kronor.1
Sweden is now able to
dispose of more bricks than
it requires to purchase. The
imports of earthenware
goods are nevertheless very
considerable. Apart from
china and kindred ware
of a higher quality, treated
in the following paragraph,
the imports in 1900 had
a total value of 1,319,000
kronor, consisting for the most part of all kinds of bricks, the coarser
qualities coming from Norway, and the finer from England. Moreover,
the raw material, clay, is imported, chiefly from England, to a value
of 514,000 kronor (included in the above figures). The exports in 1900
were as follows: clay to a value of 185,000 kronor, bricks 1,977,000
kronor (fire-bricks, etc., 737,000 kronor, ordinary bricks and clinkers 1,237,WW
kronor, pan-tiles 3,000 kronor), and pipes, parts of piping, etc., to a value
of 727,000 kronor, making a total of 2,889,000 kronor, or considerably
more than the imports. Fire-bricks are sent to the adjacent countries
(including Russia), ordinary bricks and clinkers chiefly to Denmark and
Germany, pipes and parts of piping chiefly to Denmark.
Chinaware (Pottery).
Chinaware is made at two large factories, Rörstrand and
Gustafs-berg, the former in Stockholm city, the latter in its vicinity. The
Rörstrand factory was founded in 1726; in 1782 it was united with the
1 A krona = 110 shilling or 0 268 dollar. A quintal = 197 cwts.
Specimen of Rörstrand Pottery.
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