PRODUCTION AND MARKETING
to spin yarns of finer counts. Some of the factories are equipped for weaving and use the latest type of automatic looms.
There are 152 weaving factories, employing over 9,000 workers, in the Colony. The cloths produced are sheetings, shirtings, drills, mats, osnaburgs, cellular fabrics, checks and suitings. Tapes, webbing, laces, and other fabrics are also woven. Exports are mainly to Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, Malaya, Thailand, Australia, the United Kingdom and East Africa. Three weaving mills produce brocade silk materials for making up into house coats, tea gowns and other ready made garments. There are 44 finish- ing factories, employing over 1,000 persons, and 292 knitting mills with over 10,000 workers are producing excellent articles of underwear and outer garments, swimsuits, gloves, socks and stockings, in silk, cotton and woollen yarns. In 1954, exports of cotton piecegoods amounted to a declared value of £11,343,023, cotton yarn to £6,048,774 and textile made up articles to £9,945,604.
Enamelware and other metal products. There are 26 factories employing over 4,500 workers producing enamelware articles, and 25 factories making tin cans, 36 engaged in electroplating, 5 producing aluminium- ware, 6 producing vacuum flasks and 204 making needles, nails and screws, hurricane lanterns, brass and aluminium sheets, metal windows, umbrella ribs and other metal articles. Over 14,000 persons are engaged in these industries. During 1954 exports of household utensils of enamelware amounted to £3,831,010 and of aluminiumware to £286,366.
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