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Show New Metal Plant Adds To Utah's Growing Industry Recently, a new and important Industry began operation in Salt Lake valley. This was the tungsten plant of the United States Vanadium Corporation, Cor-poration, which was built by the Defense Plant Corporation, at s cost of nearly a half million dollars. The plant is treating tungsten ores and concentrates originating in many sections of the west. It is designed to produce 150 tons of synthetic tungsten daily. Synthetic tungsten is one of the ferro-alloys used in the manufacture manufac-ture of tank and heavy armor piercing pierc-ing projectiles. Much of the sup ply of tungsten ores needed by the United States in the conduct of the war was cut off when the Japs forced the closing of transportation transporta-tion on the Burma road. Hence the nation is looking to Utah to make up the deficiency in this critical metal. The emergency-has emergency-has brought another important plant to the state and whether it will remain after the war, depends' entirely upon future developments. The plant is a welcome addition to Utah's growing industrial might,, and every effort should be made to make and keep conditions so that industry will want to remain. |