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joinery- and furniture factories. 401
Table 89. Manufacture, Imports, and Exports of Matches.
Annually Factories Hands Production Imports Exp o r t 8
Value in kr.1 Kg Kg Value in kr.
1866—70 ..... 19 1858 1 294 000 3 027 1 739111
1871-75 ..... 30 3 578 4 377 000 1319 6 188 671 3 640 000
1876-80 ..... 32 3 755 6 301 000 12 725 8 303 090 5 860000
1881-85 ..... 33 4 920 8 176 000 5 092 11894 943 8 329 000
1886-90 ..... 30 5 059 7 875 000 3 316 13 066 366 8 656 000
1891-95 ..... 29 5 494 7 923 000 2 996 14 104 983 8 602 000
1896-00 ..... 22 5 697 8 342 000 1801 15 990 035 7 196 000
1901-05 ..... 19 5 948 9 968 000 4 875 17 835 161 8 097 000
1906—10 ..... 20 6 558 13 904 000 1670 24 397 362 11141000
1910....... 20 6 758 16 709 000 790 28 547 800 .11854 000
1911....... 20 6 551 14 985 000 652 28 212 815 11 787 000
1912....... 18 6 592 16 573 000 467 33 030 194 15 693 000
1913....... 609 34 614 924 16 413 000
1 The figures for the exports, in the last column, show that the value of the output in
certain years has been put at too low a figure.
easy to cut up and is sufficiently porous to admit of impregnation
with sulphur or paraffine.
A most serious obstacle to the progress of the match industry in
Sweden, or even to its continuance in its present proportions, consists,
not so much in foreign competition, as in the excessively high
protective duties imposed by other countries, to the benefit of their own
manufacture — duties often so high as to preclude all import — and
also the State monopoly on the manufacture of matches established by
several countries, e. g., France, Spain, Greece, etc.
The largest match-factories in Sweden at present are: The Vulcan
Factory at Tidaholm, the Old Factory and the West Factory at Jönköping,
besides which, some other factories are owned by the "Jönköpings och
Vulcans tändsticksfabriks A. B."
The exports of matches go —- chiefly via Hamburg and London
— to all parts of the world, Of the exports in 1912, amounting to a
total of 33 030 000 kg, 12 099 000 kg went to England, 2 752 000 kg
to the German Empire, 887 000 kg to the Netherlands, 709 000 kg to
Belgium, 10 136 000 kg to the East Indies, 1 336 000 kg to Africa,
3 789 000 kg to North- and South-America, 406 000 kg to Denmark, etc.
The total value of the exports was estimated at 15 693 000 kronor.
Joinery- aiul Furniture Factories.
In many parts of the country, joinery as a handiwork employment is
very general, and on every farm there is usually one man able to
undertake at least rough carpenter’s work and any necessary repairs of
agricultural implements. In some provinces it was the general thing in
former times, in the long winter-evenings, when no outdoor work was
26 —133179. Sweden. II.
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