Details of the construction of a $2,000,000 citric acid plant near Haifa, Israel, by the Miles Chemical Company, a division of Miles Laboratories in Elkhart, Indiana, were disclosed here by Howard F. Roderick, president of the company, who was the guest speaker at a dinner-meeting of the Combined Jewish Appeal of Chicago.
Mr. Roderick noted that the new plant, scheduled for completion in the spring of next year, will have an annual capacity of 1,500 tons, 60 percent of which is slated for export. Among the reasons listed by Mr. Roderick, which were behind the company’s decision to build the Haifa plant, were attractive incentives offered by the Israeli Government, the warm climate inductive to citric acid consumption through soft drinks and the good export potential provided by favorable trade relations established by Israel with 22 other nations.
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