Founded in 1927, this plant originally produced calcium carbide (電石) and ferromanganese (錳鐵) as feedstock for chemical fertilizer. In 1937 it was absorbed into the Taiwan Electrochemical Company (臺灣電化株式會社), supplying carbide to the firm’s Keelung plant for the manufacture of calcium cyanamide fertilizer. After the war the government took it over, and together with plants in Keelung and Kaohsiung it was reorganized as the state-run Taiwan Fertilizer Company. The Luodong branch went on making carbide while exporting ferrosilicon (矽鐵), and in 1951 it added the first fused phosphate fertilizer (熔磷肥料) line in Taiwan. Located immediately south of what is now the Forestry Culture Park, the plant fell into disuse in the 1970s, though the factory and its gatehouse were not fully demolished until the late 2010s.
Note: this location has vanished. Any information presented here is only for reference.
提醒：此地點已消失，本文僅供參考用途。
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- Agricultural History in Taiwan (台灣農業史)
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