Hillyer Deutsch Edwards Co. Improving and Modernizing Two Big Hardwood Plants

Hillyer Deutsch Edwards Company, of Oakdale, La., one of the most successful, progressive, and rapidly developing hardwood manufacturing concerns of the United States, are busily engaged at the present time on improvement plans that will hugely improve and enlarge their trvo already big and efficient hardwood mills located at Oakdale and Glenmora.

As Oakdale, their headquarters plant, they are equipping themselves to go deep into the remanufacturing of hardwoods in response to one of thb great demands of the times. This is being done through the enlalging and entire reequipping of their "dimension plant", u'here their remanufacturing is done. Every machine in this department is being replaced with the newest and latest equipment, and steam power is being replaced throughout with direct connected electrical equipment, so that each machine will have its own separate power house. Besides the many new machines, a complete glueing plant is being installed. When this plant is completed, which will be by mid-summer, this concern will be equipped to sell cut-ready-for-use hardwoods of any size or character, glued up or otherwise.

This is one of the new thoughts that is coming so rapidly into the lumber manufacturing business, and Hillyer Deutsch Edwards, always one of the most progressive of lumber making concerns, is preparing to stay in the front ranks of service givers. As explained bv Parris Fuller, the keen Vice President of the company, they give their trade three major savings by selling them their stock cut and ready for use in the factory wherever located. First, there is no waste. Second, the freight on the lumber that would go into waste if cut up at the factory, is saved. Third, the cutting is done in the South with low priced labor, a great saving over doing it at high priced industrial labor.

At Glenrnora, their mill located several miles from Oakdale on the same line of railroad, they are doing a general rearranging and re-equipping of the entire plant, putting in roller bearing equipment throughout, and making it as thoroughly efficient as human ingenuitv can devise. Bv so doing they hope to increase their production at this plant more than one third.

By October all their improvements rvill be completed.

They operate a third mill at Mab, Louisiana, rvhere no charges are being made at this time. Their total present production is 75,000,@O feet annually.

This is one of the firms that cater to the trade that wants its hardwoods dried to a certain exact moisture content, and certain exact condition of fiber inside and out. They are unusually successful dry kiln operators. One of their improvements at Glenmora rvill be ten new dry kilns.

Wonderful intelligence and efficiency of operation and merchandising has made Hillyer Deutsch Edwards one of the most successful hardwood operators in the entire countrv.

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