UDDEHOLMS AKTIEBOLAG scientific control of the manufactures has been introduced, and the Company's laboratories for this purpose represent the high water mark of modern development. Among the Company's other manufactures the wood products play a dominating part. These industries have been centralized during the last few years, the pulp industry having been transferred from several sulphate- and sulphite factories to Skoghall, on Lake Venern. Not only have up-to-date factories with scientific laboratories been erected, but works have been added for utilizing the by-products of different kinds. Finally we may mention the great efforts made during the last few years to improve the workmen's conditions of living, the workmen's dwellings satisfying very great demands as regards comfort and convenience. The "garden city" movement, too, has been warmly supported by the Company. In the following sections we shall give a short account of the Company's various works and manufactures, etc. HAGFORS STEEL WORKS. Hagfors is one of the largest and most modern steel works in Sweden. It comprises 5 electric and 2 blast-furnaces, 2 electric furnaces for the manufacture of ferro-manganese, 1 electric steel furnace, 4 Siemens-Martin furnaces, 2 Bessemer converters, ingot-, universal-, strip-, merchant-, and wire rolling mills, a steam-hammer forge, a foundry, a machine shop and a screw factory. The latter was erected in 1884, but has since been extended several times. Its production is not only sufficient to cover Sweden's annual requirements, but also leaves a considerable surplus for export. MUNKFORS IRON WORKS. To Munkfors is entrusted the making of cold-rolled iron and steel, of which goods these Works are one of the largest makers in Sweden. Their products are of the highest quality, and are exported on a large scale to all countries of the world, and are used for -----------------------...................................................................................i,,.....»!...........i.......i.........i......,i.......mrnww..................lUiviitas&eammmimwmK&BmKSSBsssaemuaaaem Open Hearth and Blast Furnaces, Nykroppa.