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fors works manufacture blooms, ingots, rolled bar-iron, war material, such as
cannon, projectiles, armour plate etc., and steel castings (propellors, etc.). The
value of the output is about 5 million kronor per year, and the number of
employees is about 1 300.
AGA Lightbuoy from the Aktiebolaget Gasaccumulator, Stockholm.
The Fagersta iron works in Västmanland manufacture, in addition to rolling
mill products, also saw blades, springs, drawn wire, steel ropes, etc. The
Lesjöfors iron works in Värmland produce hoop and horse-nail iron, drawn wire and
steel ropes. The Hagfors iron works, in Värmland, produce tube billets, wood
screws, horse-shoe nails, and frost-nails. The Surahammar iron works, in
Västmanland, manufacture shafts and wheels for railway carriages. The Kolsva iron
works, in Västmanland, produce various steel castings, such as propellors. The
Hallstahammar bolt factory, in Västmanland, manufactures exclusively bolts, nuts,
fish-plates, and rivets. The Iggesund iron works, in Gävleborg Län, manufacture
saw blades, planing steels, stone and mine implements. The Ankarsrum iron
works, in Kalmar Län, produce projectiles. The Skultuna brass works at Svartån
in Västmanland, which were established as far back as 1611, are owned,
together with Granefors and the Nordiska metallverken by the Nya Aktiebolaget
Svenska Metallverken and manufacture copper and brass plate and wire, bolts,
tubes, etc. The Granefors copper and brass works, Blekinge, with sheet rolling
mill, wire-drawing factory, etc., manufacture tubes, bar-copper, wire, etc. The
Nordiska Metallverken, of Västerås, manufactures the same kinds of products
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