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-266 vi. mining and metallurgical industry.
The diagrams will bring ont the fluctuations still more easy to
survey.
Import. The import of unwrought or only partially wrought iron and
steel was during the same periods as follows:
Table 48. Import of Iron and Steel (unwrought or half-wrought).
Million
Annually kronor
1871-75 ..........3-15
1876—80 ..........3-47
1881—85 ..........4-29
1886—90 ..........4-04
1891-95 ..... 3-50
1896—00 ..... 5-05
1901—05 ..... 6-78
1906-10 ..... 12-71
191 1..............13-52
191 2..............15-07
191 3..............18-22
Thus the import of iron and steel (see the diagrams further down)
exhibits an advance.
Import and Export of Iron and Steel (unwrought or half-ivrought).
Mill. Kr
60
53
50
’/5
S5
30
25
ZO
15
10
5
Year lf
- Export. –––Import.
Fuels.
In the Swedish iron industry the following fuels are employed: wood
(splitwood, twigs, stumps, saw-dust), charcoal, coal, coke, and peat.
Wood. Wood in various forms is used mainly as fuel in gas producers
for reheating furnaces, Siemens-Martin furnaces and other furnaces, often
mixed with coal and peat.
Charcoal. The making of pig-iron in Sweden, as has been mentioned,
is based on the use of charcoal in the blast furnaces, and this is one of the
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