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Interior of welding shop.

From 1825 to 1916 the works have belonged to the Timm family, a part of the estate
being entailed. In the year last mentioned the works were purchased by the Avesta
Steel Works Company.

For a number of years back there has been at Avesta a factory for the manufacture
of sulphate pulp in close proximity to the iron works and the Little Falls already
mentioned. This factory was purchased by the Company in 1918 and the manufacture of
paper pulp stopped. Modern works for the production of charcoal were started instead,
with arrangements for collecting such by-products as tar, turpentine and
methylalcohol. The annual production of charcoal is calculated at 480,000 hectolitres (1,320,000
bushels).

After this short survey of the development of the Company we shall now proceed
to examine its present resources more closely, and commence with

MINES AND ORES.

Avesta has access to supplies of several spendid iron ores. The Company is, for
example, the largest shareholder in the world-famed Norberg field and is sole owner of
the Nyberg field. The latter contains calciferous ore low in phosphorus.

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