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Hume Industries (Far East) Limited plant at Bukit Timah, Singapore

In December 1967, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that Hume Industries (Far East) Limited was building "a new asbestos-cement sheeting plant at its Bukit Timah works in Singapore."2 In April 1968 the journal reported the new sheet factory completed, calling it "an extension of the present asbestos pipe and sheeting manufacturing plant" that would raise the company's output of asbestos products "by more than 75%."1

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Location

Bukit Timah, Singapore, the city named in the documents. The dot marks the city, not the plant's address.

What each document says

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

Asbestos Magazine, 1968, April 1968

  • Opened: “has completed a new asbestos-cement sheet factory in Singapore ... an extension of the present asbestos pipe and sheeting manufacturing plant” (Hume Industries (Far East) Limited), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 261

Asbestos Magazine, 1967, December 1967

  • Description: “under construction: a new asbestos-cement sheeting plant at its Bukit Timah works in Singapore” (Hume Industries (Far East) Limited), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 72

Other names

Documents call this plant “Bukit Timah works in Singapore”, “new asbestos-cement sheet factory in Singapore”.

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1968, April 1968 (April 1, 1968), p. 26.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1967, December 1967 (December 1, 1967), p. 7.

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“Hume Industries (Far East) Limited plant at Bukit Timah, Singapore.” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/plants/singapore-hume-industries.

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