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Tainionkoski, near Imatra, chloric acid kali is now
manufactured, a product which also requires considerable
power.
We have mentioned the decrease of tar manufacture,
which has now sunk in value to 1½ million marks,
greatly to the advantage of the forest. The boiling of
pitch, manufactured from tar, is an industry which is
worth mentioning, and again some new factories
established for the manufacture of other chemical products,
notably two new factories erected at Kotka and
Björneborg, connected with the unfortunate Trebertrocknung
Company of Cassel. They were intended to produce
charcoal, wood-oil, methylated spirit and acid-chalk,
but failed at the outset. The total output of the
chemical industries in 1898 was estimated at 7½
million marks.
One product of the forests, bark, and especially
willow-bark, which was once exported, is now mostly
used by the tanners of the country, who are allowed
to import all kinds of tanning materials from other
countries without duty. Half of their hides come
from the country; half are imported free of duty.
They produced in 1898 leather to the value of 14
million marks (nearly double the output of 1887),
one single factory belonging to Åström Brothers in
Uleåborg being responsible for over 3 million marks.
This factory also exported about 250,000 marks’ worth
of saddlery. Other large factories have been
established at Raumo, at Helsingfors (where the new
electric tanning method is used), and at Korkeakoski in
Orivesi. This latter is in connection with the only
shoe factory which so far has been established in
Finland, and which in the future will take a large
part in the manufacture of the two million marks’
worth of boots and shoes now made in the country.
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