Two German Jewish immigrants, Jacob Gruenberg and William Sand, both formerly of Berlin, announced that they will incorporate the Jerusalem Cigtarette Factory Ltd., with a registered capital of $3,000.
The factory will be equipped with up-to-date German machinery and the work will be directed by experts.
Other new factories to be built here include establishment for the production of alcohol and vinegar,baked goods packed in cellophane, woolen goods, furniture antimacassar, curtains, paper containers, cream and ices, stoves and ironmongery.
A sugar factory whose owners will eventually seek to grow their own suger beet over large areas in the Jordan valley where climate and soil are favorable, is planned. There is some difficulty in obtaining permission from the government officials who are reluctant to make the award. Their reason is that the World Eonomic conference last year decideed that permits for new sugar growing enterprises would be stemmed in view of the overproduction and oversupply of the cane at the present time in the sugar raising countries of the world.
OTHER ENTERPRISES
A group of German capitalists are planning the erection of a tanning factory and are now making arrangements for the acquisition of a site near one of the large cities.
Sevently emplyees are employed by the staff of the Noam candy factories, at Nachlath Ganim, near Bnei Brak, which are producing chewing gum.
Palulum is the name of a factory at Ramat Gan, an aluminum producing plant, which is the first of its kind in the Near East. Exports have started to Egypt and Syria.
Other factories in Ramath Gen, a rural quarter near Tel Aviv, include Hungarian soda-water and fruit juice establishment, a Czechoslovakian concern for the manufacture of carious articles from artificial bone, and bone, and a paper mill.
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