HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY ERAY
PRESS RELEASE
新聞稿
Sunday, December 12, 1976
GIANT "TOASTER' MASS PRODUCES PREFAB WALLS
FOR TAI HING ESTATE AT TUEN MUN
Can you imagine a production line where walls go in one
end as liquid cement and come out the other the finished product in
less than three hours?
And where the main part of the process is performed inside a
super-heated oven which acts virtually as a giant "toaster" as it dries
I out and safely solidifies the cement, turning it rock-hard and ready for
instant use?
It sounds like something happening overseas but actually this
ultra-modern production line is working full-time at Tuen Mun turning
out walls for Tai Hing Estate.
Every working day it turns out 220 "quick-built" walls.
The factory, set up at a cost of $3 million, plays an
important part in the phase I construction of Tai Hing Estate in the
developing new town of Tuen Mun.
Its main function is to supply ample prefabricated walls for
the three 30-storey cruciform blocks and one seven-storey block which
will provide a total of 4,446 self-contained flats housing some 29,000
people.
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