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THE future prospects of the British dye industry, and the organisation of it and other scientific industries, have been the subjects of much attention lately. The developments taking place in Japan, Russia, Italy, and America in regard to the manufacture of synthetic dyes were discussed by Dr. F. M. Perkin in a lecture recently delivered before the Society of Dyers and Colourists at Bradford. The latest American enterprises in this industry were described in NATURE of December 16, p. 429, and the conclusion was drawn that, in a few years, America will be very largely self-contained in the matter of dye wares. This condition may, with reasonable certainty, be postulated of the other industrialised countries, including France, and, one may hope, the British Empire. If this anticipation be realised, it will mean that the synthetic dye industry, with all the allied trades in fine chemicals, will have entered on a new phase of their development. Before the war these industries were very largely a German monopoly. After the war they will be comparable with the brewing and distilling trades in that the wants of each industrialised nation will be supplied almost entirely by manufacturers of the same nationality. Only a few dyes or fine chemicals having specially desirable properties will find their way across, the frontiers, just as is now the case with alcoholic beverages of international reputation.
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Scientific Research and Chemical Industry . Nature 96, 475–476 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096475a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/096475a0