Pioneer-Ffintkote $tr000r000 Expansion Program

Pioneer Division. The Flintkote Company, well known manufacturers of roofing materials and box and chipboard, 55th and Alameda Streets. has an extensive program well under way that will entail the expenditure of approximately $1,000,000 in new buildings and equipment. Two hundred men will be employed on the project for the next three to four months.

Plans call for five new buildings which will give the Company I13,645 square feet additional floor space. There will be additions to the chip and boxboard warehouse and the present beater room and a new paper stock preparation room, a new paper mill, and a building to house a new plant for the manufacture of corrugated containers.

About I25 men will be added to the payroll after expansion operations are completed and the increased manufacturing schedule is put into effect, according to L. M. Simpson, general manager of Pioneer Division, The Flintkote Company. The payroll will be increased approximately $225,W a year and employees will total more than 500. Lumber, reinforced concrete, and brick will be used in the construction of the new buildings.

The paper mill will have a 9-foot basement and a first floor with 3O-foot clearance to house the latest type of paper making machinery for the production of folding boxboards and corrugated test liners. The dryers are of the modern "Stack" type arrangement-the entire machine will be 210 feet long. The paper mill building will have a total floor area of 26,104 square feet.

The stock preparation plant-a building of 10,380 square feet-will house modern and efficient Breaker Beaters, Disintegrator Pumps, Jordans, Pulper-Refiner lJnits, and other machinery necessary for the proper preparation of materials for the paper mill.

The most modern and efificient machinery available has been planned for the manufacture of corrugated containers. The complete new corrugated plant will contain the latest type of machinery for corrugating the liners and double facing the corrugated board, for slitting, scoring, printing and taping-all steps in the manufacture of corrugated containers that are now used almost exclusively for packing and shipping all types of merchandise. This new building will contain 49,46 square feet o{ floor area. There will be a total of 65 carloads-2,500,000 pounds-of o€w ln?: chinery and equipment.

Expansion of the box and chipboard division of the Company's operations has necessitated additional warehouse facilities. The new warehouse will have a basement with a 14-foot clearance and one story with a total of 25,4OO square feet of storage area. The building has been designed to allow for the addition of a second story to take care of further expansion in the future.

Pioneer Divisron, The Flintkote Company, is one of the West's oldest and largest manufacturers of roofing materials, having been founded in 1888 by Willis G. Hunt and Harry M. Eichelberger. The firm celebrates its 50th Anniversary next year. Plant and office buildings occupy more than 30 acres of ground. Products manufactured include asphalt shingles, asphalt roll roofing, asphalt emulsions, chip and boxboard, building papers, deadening felt, and one of the new buildings will be devoted to the manufacture of corrugated containers.

The present expansion program is in line with the Company's continuous program of expansion since its inception. Recent additions include an entirely new plant for the production of Asphalt Emulsions, special waterproofing products developed in the Company's own laboratory, and a modern, up to the minute box and chipboard mill.

The million dollar expenditure in Los Angeles is part of a national expansion program recently undertaken by The Flintkote Company. In all, more than $4,000,000 is to be invested in new plants and equipment-$1,000,00o of which is being used here.

L. M. Simpson, general manager of Pioneer Division, The Flintkote Company, states that the continuous growth of Southern California and the Pacific Coast together with the assured future growth of this whole section of the country has necessitated the present expansion project and the