Kraks Vejviser 1938 Handelsregister

13 The cement industry is also very important. Danish cement has found a market in most countries in the World. Also Danish machinery for making cement e. g. rotary kilns and tube milis are used practically all over the world, and Danish civil engineers have planned and constructed cement works in numerous foreign countries. In this connexion, it should be mentioned that Danislf engineering firms are building bridges, roads, harbours and railways in all parts of the world. The Diesel motor is doubtless one of the most import­ ant products of the Danish engineering industry. Danish industry took up this speciality at an early date and has since contributed valuably and indeed in an epoch- tnaking manner, not only as far as the technical per- fection of this modern motor type is concerned but also with regard to its practical exploitation for marine and railway purposes. The sea-going motor ship and the Diesel electric loco- motive constitute part of the Danish dndustry’s world- known specialities. For a number of years more than half of all the oceangoing Diesel motor ships built in all the world have been provided with Diesel engines of the Danish type. Besides constructing a large number of crude oil and Diesel engines for use in fishing craft, the Danish motor industry is also specializing in large and small stationary plants. Many of the large and small concerns within the Danish machine industry are based on the manufacture nf specialities which are' exported to most parts of tlie World. In addition to those already enumerated may be mentioned for instance laundry machinery, steam kitchcn equipment, grinding miils, refuse destruction plants, stoves of various kinds, sheet-iron radiators, railway trucks, mechanical and hydraulic presses, printing ma- chines, bottling machines, packing machines, road- making machines, machinery for chocolate factories and certain textile machinery. As a natural consequence of the prominent part whicli shipping has always played for Denmark, an important shipbuilding industry has arisen. Danish yards build aunually for home and foreign owners a considerable flamber of large ships comprising passenger liners, cargo vesseis, fruit carriers, tankships, etc., the greater part of whicli are oqnipped with Danish marine diesel engines, electrical steering apparatus, cooling plants and other equipment of Danish manufacture. Also fishing cutters and equipment: auxiliary motors, fishing net winches etc., are manufactured and exported. Concurrently with the unique progress in electrification whicli has taken place in Denmark, a very considerable electro-technical industry has developed. Among the fliore important items produced by this industry may be flicntioned electro-motors, dynamos, electric wiring, elec­ tric steering gear and winches for large motor ships, heavy marine and land cables both power current and telegraph and telephone cables, lifts, radio accessories and parts, telephone equipment, electro-technical porce- Jflin etc. etc. The Danish motor car assembling factories should also be mentioned, as carrying on large scale Sports. A veteran Danish industry is the manufacture of Porcelain and stoneware. By reason of their technical and artistic perfection the products of this industry have Sained unequalled farne all over the world. Danish porce­ lain, distinguished and characteristic, is one of the most widely known products of the Danish industry of applied art and presents the result of an intimate co-operation hetween prominent artists and perfect technique.

Possessing manufacturing methods of its own, this in­ dustry continues on modern lines a centuries old artistic handicraft. In recent years the artistic Danish stoneware has likewise obtained a name known beyond the boundaries of Denmark. Another great industry of applied art is Danish silverware, the elegant products of which also form an export article of importance. The Danish industry of applied art, which in addition to the porcelain and silverware industries also comprises certain branches of the glass industry, textiles, bookbinding etc., the workmanship af which is stamped by the culture of many generations, has gained a large and important circle of friends and admirers among international con- noisseurs. Of other distinctly Danish industrial products which are largely exported may be mentioned vacuum cleaners, dry cells and electric irons and electric tools for special purposes. Cryolite is mined in the Danish colony Green­ land, and is treated and refined in Denmark for export. Besides this tliere is a considerable export of flint, clialk and moler clay. Danish industrial con­ cerns likewise export large quantities of cleaned feathers, pencils, printers’ ink, lacquers, type and bearing metals, and last but by no means least a large number of important pharmaceutical specialities and medicines. Tliere are also many other important Danish industries whose activities, however, are mainly confined to the production of goods for the domestic market, such as, for instance, leather, textiles, ready-made clothes, footwear, paper, glass, indiarubber, cordage, sugar, margarine, cho­ colate, tobacco, flour, fertilizers etc. A characteristic feature of these as well as of the ex- porting Danish industries is their ameliorative character, the finished articles constituting quality products. The definite goal deliberately aimed at has really been to make tlie indication “MADE IN DENMARK" a guarantee for the sterling quality of tlie goods. Denmark’s Fisheries. Fishery is one ofDenmark’s oldest occupations and espe- cially in the early middle ages herring fishing in the Sound was of fundamental importance for the economic life of the country. Gradually, however, this trade feil off very considerably, and only in more recent times a revival has taken place, thanks to the increasing use of motordriven craft. In 1900 there were only 200 fishing craft mechanically driven, whereas at the present time there are over 6000. This development has carried along with it a flourishing industry of building marine engines in Denmark. A considerable export of marine engines now takes place. The value of the annual catcli of fish is about 40 mil­ lion Kroner. The export of fish in 1936 represented a value of 34,5 million Kroner, made up as follows: Plaice and other flatfish 16,0 million Kroner, eels 6,5 million Kroner, cod and haddock 5,3 miil., fish fillets 0,7 miil., roe 02 mili. and herrings 2,2 million Kroner etc. The oyster.fishery in the Lim Fjord, which is a mono- poly, and also the production of unhatched trout-eggs, young trout and other fresh water fish are of considerable importance for export.

In the section B, Financial Institutions, Shipping etc. wfll be found particulars regarding Denmark’s monetary system, mortgage institutions’‘and banks, shipping and