Rohtas Industries Limited plant at Dalmianagar, India

In August 1963, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that the asbestos plant of Rohtas Industries Limited at Dalmianagar, India, "has been in operation since 1950 after an unlucky start four years earlier with what turned out to be the wrong kind of fibre and equipment."¹ The same article said it made "between 10,000 and 15,000 tons" a year of corrugated and semi-corrugated sheets, low-pressure pipes and fittings, gutters and roofing accessories, and that "at least 400" of the town's "20,000 citizens" worked there.¹

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What each document says

Every statement about this plant in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1963, August 1963

• Operated: “The asbestos plant has been in operation since 1950 after an unlucky start four years earlier” (Rohtas Industries Limited), p. 3¹
• Products made: “corrugated and semi-corrugated sheets, low-pressure pipes and fittings, gutters and roofing accessories” (Rohtas Industries Limited), p. 3¹
• Workforce: “at least 400 of its 20,000 citizens ... are the employees of the asbestos plant” (Rohtas Industries Limited), p. 3¹

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1963, August 1963 (August 1, 1963), p. 3.