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Show SHORT SUPPLIES STOP PLASTIC MANUFACTURERS A critical shortage of supplies was the only obstacle this week between manufacturers of cellulose cellu-lose plastics and the greatest production pro-duction peak in their history, according ac-cording to a survey of the entire plastics field in a special issue of the New York Journal of Commerce. Com-merce. Otherwise producers are greatly great-ly oversold, it was pointed out by W. Stuart Landes, president of the Plastics Materials Manufacturers' Manufac-turers' Association, and in some instances have a volume of business busi-ness 4 times in excess of capac-ity. capac-ity. The chief cause of production limitations, Mr. Landes said, is the supply of cellulose acetate flake and the drain on this caused by increased injection molding and extrusion capacity in the United States. Despite this, however,. how-ever,. Mr. Landes pictured the following fol-lowing for the future: 1 A collective 50 per cent increase in-crease for cellulose producers during the next two years. 2 -A new peacetime height, based on currently planned expansion, ex-pansion, by mid 1947. Because of the need for initial completion of construction and tooling, this upward graph will not take hold unil the Spring of 1946, Mr. Landes said. |