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412 vii. manufacturing industries.
Table 90. Stone Export. Value in kronor.
Annually To Germany To Denmark To Great Britain To other countries Total
1890 ........ 2 603 029 597 365 278 803 205 071 3 684 268
1895 ........ 4 299 328 376 238 273 825 311 729 5 261120
1900 ........ 7 553 249 1 402 764 855 961 575 414 10 387 388
1905 ........ 9 333 163 1 122 267 1135 561 1 273 352 12 864 343
1910 ........ 7 472 086 1036 943 941082 3 510 826 12 960 937
1911........ 8 213 908 1 239 896 821 876 3 691 856 »13 967 536
1912........ 8 343 561 1 225 348 686 398 3 876 703 214132000
1913........ 316 083 000
1 Felspar and qnartz to a value of 741 444 kr. not included.
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country, but it chiefly results from the fact that the stone in question received
its final preparation in the foreign market, where it was employed on a steadily
increasing scale, chiefly in Germany. At the present day, Sweden is one of the
principal stone-exporting countries in the world. Apart from the fluctuations
of the market during the last few years, the value of the Swedish stone-export
has, on the whole, increased, as is seen by Table 90.
With respect to a number of geological questions connected with the stone
industry, the reader is referred to the article on the geology of Sweden, where
it has been considered advisable to give also some fairly detailed information
respecting the employment of the various classes of stone.
Cement and Mortar.
The manufacture of cement in the form known as Portland cement is
not of very old date in Sweden, though a sort of hydraulic mortar, made
of burnt alum shale powder and lime, was formerly used in connection
with earlier canal structures. Cement was employed as early as 1860 but
then only to the extent of 1 180 tons. The first cement factory in Sweden
was established at Lomma in Skåne in 1871, on the initiative of professor
Otto Torell and Otto Fahnehjelm,, an engineer. Clay of suitable quality is
to be found there in unlimited quantity, and lime was obtained from the
neighbouring place of Limhamn and sent by sea to Lomma. This was the
beginning of the Scanian Cement Company (Skånska cementaktiebolaget),
the first manager of which, R. F. Berg, has done a great deal towards
furthering the development of the cement industry in Sweden. In Sweden the
natural conditions necessary for the manufacture of cement are amply
satisfied, owing to the great resources of suitable raw material, and, after
the Lomma factory (which was closed in 1904) other factories were started
at Limhamn (established by the Scanian Cement Company), Visby 1885,
Öland 1888, Hällekis 1892, and at Klagshamn and Maltesholm 1898. The
latest factory is the Ifö Cement Factory (1909). The sale of the products
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