The writer narrates here about the condition of coal gas industry of Japan.The demand for gas along with the rehabilitation of dwelling houses and reconstruction of industry is in ascendancy, and the gas producers are doing their best in reconstruction and improvement of system for supply.
The situation differs in summer and winter, and the difficulty with the manipula-tion responding to the need of extention of equipment for production is no easy job, and as a measure to get over this difficulty, the producer gas using oxygen and oil gas have been adopted as the demand is still increasing.On the other hand, with the developmet of self capitalization, the bond payable and debentures are swelling upand the bank bond payable is reaching twice as much as the capital fund, but for the sake of improvement of equipment, the way for financing the capital is now urgently looked for.
Although the charges for gas has been raised as often as seven times since 1945, the gas producers now look for the system of charges according to the separate use of gas and lessening of gas-tax.On the other hand, rationalization of equipment and control is noticiable and up trend of production by labor has remarkably been promoted.As for the sales of by-products, the demand for coke went down for a time, appreciating the effect of special demand for war goods in relation to the cease fire talk on Korean War, and slump of export business, but again the demand for coke is getting very lively.Tar, in pace with the development of synthetic chemical industry has come to cultivate a new direction in sales but it has come to show a downward tendency since the summer of 1951 as its peak.The cause is attributed to the rise of coal price claiming twice as much as that of in America and urgently call for rationalization of its enterprice.
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