NEWSPRINT MANUFACTURING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A000100010045-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: August 6, 1947
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approveal#Wkitia 2004/1041A2-00P80-00926A000100010045-2
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CrINTRAI. iNTEWIENCE GROW !1;POR1 NO,
"14A11 ON REPORT
t'OUT India
SUSI Newsprint Manufacturing,
PLACE:
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DATE
ACQU. 7
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DATE INSTR. 4 August 194-7
i40. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCL.S.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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:rational Newsprint 6- 2aper Mills Ltd., Bombay, a newly oreanised oompe 7, plans
to start production of newsprint from an ordinary Indian softwood knou techni-
cally as 'Iloseeellia &errata* and commonly as asalai."
7,eboratory research has indicated the material will produce setisfacte.e' news-
print. It has been tested at the Indian Forest Research Institute and La
eanada under direction of Robert Ae Renkin & Co., consulting engineere, Offi-
cials of the latter firm are ocheduled to visit India shortly to inspeet the
proposed fetoy site.
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*arveys made by the Indian firm indicate that production coc!;s will be ;n1y
60% of those prevalent in Canada, and thet sale price will be about 2Ce of
the delivered price of Canadian newsprint. Reasons for the expected la caret are:
(A) Law cost of labor.
The camps:ay/a long-term renewable lease of a 575,000-acre forest eestot in
the Ceptral Provinooa. Tho company plans to write-off the anaeal rental of
14 cents pee acre by groine food crops on newly-out sections. "ce the
plant will have a capacity of only 100 tone per day the trot is mere than
edeeuate to eupply its needs indefinitelye
(c) The factory will be ow one of the main railway lines from Bombay Delhi,
and within s. few niles of the Tapti River, which fureishee adequa ester
Amor all year.
(d) Elimination of shipping and other oharees.
The company has been, euthorized by the Indian GOvernment to float a 41 :illion
etook issue. Even if it never produces for export, its domestic marke, r?s
tremendous. Indials present naveprint consumption is 40,0410 tons a yea e, all
from imports but there is an immediate marketefOr at least 90,000 tone Annually.
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The Governmentls efforts to raise the current 13% literacy rate are expected
to:
(a) Increase the 90,0006-toms annual needs of newspaper publishers at
the rate of 25% each year to at least 400% in the next ten years.
(b) Create an additional Freat demand for Cheap books printed on the
SMUG paper.
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The companyos activity is certain to brin- a redirection of attertion to soft
voodoo VhiCh heretofore have been considered unaatiareotoxy for newsprint.
With the morldls spruce forests being depleted and demand for newsprint steadily
rising, a new source of supply may have been found.
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