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By ALLAN SWIFT

MONTREAL (CP) —.With
1,800,000 egg rolls tumbling
down his conveyor belt every
week, Marcel Wong Is fairly
beaming.

Fast food outlets and ag-
gressive marketing to take
advantage of growing ‘ap

é pe-
tites for Chinese food haye ©

helped make his family busi-
ness, Wong Wing Food Prod-

Cominco
ally makes
cash. offer

VANCOUVER (CP) —.

Worwit Industries Inc, 2
wholly-owned subsidiary of.
Cominco Ltd., will make a
cash offer to purchase all
outstanding common shares
of Bethlehem Copper Corp.
for $87.50 each. .

The offer will be made on
the Vancouver and Toronto
stock exchanges Feb. 2, Don-

* ald Townson of Cominco said

in a news release.- iS

Worwil purchased about 25
per cent of Bethlehom’s com-
.mon shares Oct. 31 from Gulf
Resources and Chemical
Corp. and agreed an. offer
would be made within 180
lays to purchase all remain-

ing Bethlehem shares.
; Cominco_ and’ Worwi q
‘eady own about 63 per cent
f Bethiehem's shares. He

: VANCOUVER (CP)-— A
designed forest, using com-
,puter technology to get more

‘and better timber: growth, -
will be set up by MacMillan’

Bloedel Ltd at a cost of $90°

million during the next five

years, .
Ray Smith, Mac. Bie ‘a third

ucts, the major Chinese food
.producer in Canada,

It's been 83 years since
Wong and his sister began
turning out egg rolls in the ,
‘snack bar kitchen of an old
* friend, Frank Wing, in Mon.
‘treafs Chinatown, -

“One‘dsy I decided to go to:

Steinberg (a major Quebec
food‘ store chain) to offer
them fresh egg rolls,” Wong
recalled in an interview.

“The buyer was intrigued
by the idea, since ‘people
were starting to cat egg rolls
in Chinese restaurants, and
offered mé space in five
stores ag soon as I was ready.

GIVE US MORE
“It was love at first sight at

Steinberg and they gaked me-
to supply all their stores. I-

couldn't keep up with the de-
* mand and we had to. work
night and day.”

Sales for 1980 were moro
than $15 million, sales man-
ager Raymond Wong —
Marcel’s younger brother —
revealed reluctantly...

Les Aliments Wong King :

(the new name in Quebec as.
of this month because of pro-
vineial “h

industrial cafeterias, grocery,

+ stores: and supermarkets

chains, *
. “We're the largest Chinese
food ‘manufacturer in Can-
ada?” said Wong, with more -
than a hint of ‘Pride in his
voice, “and we're .the \only
one that is all-Canadian,.
Quebec: and family-owned.”
SALES WELL SPREAD
‘Wong said that 40 to 45 per
cent of sales are in Quebec,

five per cent in the:northern | |

United States, and the rest
in other Canadian provinces,
When a federal building
project wiped .out a whole :.
section of Chinatown, Wong
Wing built a modern plant in:
the city’s east end. ‘4+

Tho plant, émployisg 200, A

underwent’. a $1.6 ' million
expansion last year, ‘includ-
ing new ‘controlled: atmos-
here ‘chambers: capable ‘of,
storing f fresh vegetables such
as cabbage’ all winters: They
use 10. tonnes, of sabbage a
day. ‘
Processing is from iserateh,
and only some seasoning is
imported from abroad.: Mar.
‘eel 8 sald he tried importing

now produces a dozen types .
of egg rolls, won ton soup,
fried won ton, pineapple
chicken, diced‘ almond chic-,
ken, chow mein, chop suey,”
plum sauce — anything you
can order’ in ‘your favorite

Chinese restaurant.
“They retail directiy to res-
nt as well as botals,

outright, 60 per cent is’
, publicly: owned and .20 per’
, cent is under a timber licance

‘arrangement which: means

that once logged, the land re- °

verts to public ownership.
Smith ‘asia ‘the firm also
will b

president within a year, says et

the ‘company currently has

enough timber to feed exist- -
ing operations, but not -
r “enough for major expansion.

““The emphasis now is on

“Until recently efforts on
the research side were de-
voted to cost reductions.and
factors, We

:we can
get from the forests.”

The firm currently controls
4.7 million acres of timber-
land in North America, mak-
ing it one of the largest forest
companies.on the continent,
says a recent report by Pem-
berton Securities Ltd.”

The report shows 60 per
cent, of that land is in B.C.
‘About 20 per cent of the
‘company’ 's nena is owned

a

- want to retain that aspect
* plus: get ‘into new product,

development.”

- LUMBER TO FALL
Smith says 1981 will be a
good year for some product
lines such as newsprint and:
pulp, but will start off slowly
for building materials sucli as

“lumber.

ein 3981, newsprint ‘should
Lo

some di from Hong ~

Kong but “It was a fiasco.
The consumers boycotted the.
products.”

Canadians were first intro”
duced to Chinese food in the _
late 1800s by Chinese who
came hero to work on the”
___ railways but often set up”
s-- restaurants alter they were
laid off. ©

Cc Computers help growth
in big MacBlo scheme

hold up reasonably well. De
mand continues and, con-

_ sumption continues. Byt the

market is stronger in the
West thait in the East be-
cause here it's California-
based.

“I expect pulp to firm up
nicely by the end of. the yoar -
and, if the .U. 8; performs. at
least “at the average’ of all

economic. forecasts, then the ..
fourth quarter will bestrong- |

est.”

Smith ‘predicts it’ will be -
tough sledding for’ building
material ‘during the first half -
of the year and the market.
will move as interest rates.

. improve.

The *25- to a6yearcld
group will bulge over the
next three or four years and

they'll be getting into single- ©

family dwellings. It's a mat-
ter of getting the economy
and interest rates into some._
kind of phi :

Good time to sell
to forest industry ~

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Despite a worldwide drop in
demand for B.C. . building
products, it’s a good time to

; be selling equipment to the

forest industry, if exhibitors’

bocths at the Truck Loggers
Agsociation convention were

“any measure,

"| One reason is the lull in

Jogging that followed a drop
in building products produc-
tion and demand for timber,
‘said Bill Marlow ot Manley
“Steels Ltd.

+ Manley makes “arill tods
‘and bits, used in road-build-
dng, which he said usually
increases during a market
‘turndown.

; “The logger knows he will

. sneed the road in five years,”

he said, “He doesn't want to
be building then when he
should be getting wood to the

Another reason is the
distance between bush and
mill,

“The industry logged the
valleys a long time ago,”
Marlow said, “The woods are
getting farther away. And’
they have to build roads in
the mountains which means
more rocks, We provide the
drills.”

Fred Besslich of Rotair
Industries Ltd. agreed.

“It's. (timber) not on the
beach any more. So more.
equipment is required to get
it out, And that's good for the
equipment industry.”

Most ‘popular booth was.

run by ’ Roy. and: Shirley
DeCou, who make and sell
satellite dishes and television
projectors and wide. screens
under the names Satellite
Video Ltd,’ Cinevision. and
Charter Marketing Services.

“Satellite * is’: just-" going
nuts,” Mrs. DeCou said. “The-
camps need our product...
we. have three (customers)
who said:come on up before
the end of the show and we'll

sign.”

, The controversial satellite
reception equipment .costs -
$9,800. and : the’ television
equipment, which includes a
projector and a large screen, -
costs almost $2,100,

The convention, ended Fre.
day. °

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Canadian ‘e ‘economy. is‘ about
to takeia turn for; the wraraen,

‘Scotia's : Monthly ‘:, Review.
Tho: newalotter’ says. the
recent ‘pickup ‘‘in- business
activity/in Canada and ‘the

two, for tl
formaldehyde foam.
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‘predletd the Bank of mye. bout flu-like symptonis’and. * ‘

a:finding that formaldobyde :,
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pressure and severé financial’

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rising consimer price’ Index *

Y and’ barely’ higher Canadian
output! for ‘1981, The’ bank

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BANINSULATION?:
WASHINGTON : (AP)

‘The Consumer Product Bafe-.:

“ty, Comimission has proposed
‘a ban ;on further’ sales’ of. a
type’ of home: insulation. that,

“alread: in’

hel International Labor Org:

anization says,’ with ‘one ‘ aa

four ‘of the’ eight, million"

full-time’ logging ° ‘workers
having an accident : ‘every |:

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