PIONEERT F[INTKOTE EXPANDS

The one million dollar expansion program started several months ago by Pioneer Divisiorr, 'I-he Flintkote Company at its 31-acre general office and factorv site. 55th and Alameda Streets, Los Angeles, is norv practically completed. All nerv l>uildings have been finished; new machinery and equiprnent has been installed and is now in operation.

Although the Company has carried on a rather continuous program of expansion for nearly half a century-"Since 1888"-this latest program is one of the most extensive in its entire history. The large additional investment, according to L. NI. Simpson, general nranager, has been made becanse of the increased building and industrial activity on the Pacific Coast, ancl also to carry out the Company's policy of diversifying its production. Mr. Simpson ar1nounces that one of their veterans, A. E. Carlson, has been named manager of the ner,v Corrugated Container Division.

The new paper nrill, housed in a building with a 9-foot basement and 30-foot clearance first floor, is over 210 feet long; the stack type driers are 23 feet high. This mill is for the production of boxboards and chipboards to take care of the increasing demands in that field and also for ccrrugated test liners, to supply the material for the new corrugated container plant.

Adjacent to the paper mill are the stock preparation plant and beater room, equipped with breaker beaters, disintegrator pumps, Jordan's, and all machinery necessary for the proper and efficient preparation of materials for the paper mill.

The nerv corrugated container bttilding is "L" shapecl with a crane runway constructed or.er the paper storage pit along the entire east side. This storage portion is 44 by 244 {eet and the clear height is 35 feet to the under side of the trusses, permitting a roll paper storage to a height cf 30 feet under the crane.

The manufacturing portion of the building adjoining the crane runway is 78 l'ty 244 feet. The floor of this portion is at truck loading height. The rvestern side of the building provides ample space for finished stock storage and clelivery. The entire building is da1'liglited by saw-tooth roof construction and monitor sash.

This new Pioneer-Flintkote Corrugated Container plant is equipped r,vith the latest type machinery for the manufacture of A arrd B Flute Corrugated Board in sheets, single-faced corrugated in rolls, and for conversion of the board into containers. The Slitter-Scorer, the 2-color Printer-Slotter, the Taping Machine are all high speed machines so that quick deliveries can be assured to meet the requirements of Western merchants and manufacturers.

Pioneer-Flintkote, in addition to the new line of Corrugated Board and Containers, is rvell known throughout the Western States for its other oroducts which include

Asphalt Shingles and Roll Roofing, Asphalt Emulsion Roofing Asphalt, Building Papers, Boxboard and Chipboard, Cane-ite Structural Insulation, and I.-lintkote Hardboards.

Flintkote Cane-ite is a 7C07o cane fibre structural insulation. Cane-ite rvill help materially to fill the ever increasing demand for insuiation in new building. It also has manv uses in remodehng and irnproving of older buildings and homes. Cane-ite is made up in special forms for building board, sheathing, plank paneling, lath, tile, and roof insulation.

Flintkote Hardboarcis are available in several densities. thicknesses and sizes, and have an almost endless number of uses in building, remodeling and manufacturing.

According to Mr. Simpson. this expansion of facilities ar.rd products is another expression of confidence in tlre future of the West-a luture that will see industrial and population lead.ership centiring more and more in the West, u'hich means continued large scale construction of all types of buildings for years to come.

L. I!f. Simpson has been active head of Pioneer Division, The F'lintkote Company since May, 1934. For many years prior to that he directed the national sales activities of one of the largest manufacturing concerns in the country, organizing its branch offices and also cooperating with proriuction and research departments in the development and improvement of product quality and design. His wide experience and extensive contact with dealers, jobbers, contractors and large industrial concerns has given him an unusually keen appreciation of the problems of lumber and building material dealers and he has continually worked to develop the distribution policies and products of his company to give dealers the utmost cooperation.

In addition to his business attributes, "Lou" Simpson, as nrost folks knorv him, has an engaging personality and friend-making ability of rare character that has made him a host of friends in all parts of California.

CHANGES IN McCORMICK'S PERSONNEL

Charlie llenry, who has been connected with the Chas. R. N{cCormick Lumber Company in Los Angeles, has resigned and will enter the wholesale lumber business for himself.

w. E. (Bill) sometime, rvill office.

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Davis, who has been with the company for succeed Mr. Henry in the Los Angeles

Wheeler will represent the company in San Diego, their lumber and steamship operations.

Herbert Moss Of Louisiana Visits California

Herbert Moss, of Rochelle, Louisiana, sales manager for The Tremont Lumber Company, was a recent business visitor on the West Coast. He stayed several days in Los Angeles, and several more in San Francisco, before leaving for the Northwest. He was accompanied by Mrs. Moss.

The Tremont Lumber Company operates a very large sawmilling plant at Rochelle, with a Yellow Pine sawmill, a hardwood sawmill, and an oak flooring department, as separate units. lIr. Moss called particularly on the hardrvood trade in California, offering for sale their Southern harclwoods and Oak flooring. Their flooring is all cut from their own timber growing on Dugdemona Creek, so they call it "Dugdemona Creek Flooring," and boast of its quality and uniformity.

Back From Vacations

Fred Boock, Gilroy Lumber Co., Gilroy, recently spent his vacation at Oroville.

Cliff Kelly, of Gilroy Lnmber Co., has returned from a vacation trip to his old home tolvn in Nebraska.

WHOLE STAFF AIR-MINDED

N{iss Peggy lVlorrell, of the Gorman Lumber Company, San Francisco, recently made a round trip to the TransPacific Lumber Company's mill at Port Orford, Ore., in George Gorman's new 4-place Stinson plane.

Frequent air trips are made from the San Francisco Bay district to the mill by Mr. Gorman in the average time of three hours. This compares with a tiring trip of about 15 hours reorrired bv automobile.

Celotex Announces Eastern Plans

Bror. G. Dahlberg, President of The Celotex Corporation, announces, vrith regard to therr newly acquired plant at Metuchen, New Jersey, that Arthur Landis, formerly Vice-President of the Auburn Automobile Company, will be Eastern Operating Manager at that point. Operating under General Sales Manager Harold Knapp, and making their headquarters in the New l ork offices, George E. Swenson will be Manager of Sales for the Metuchen Division, and Paul D. Close, Assistant. Tlvo new products are being made ai this point, Celotex Cemesto, and Traffic Top. The first is an insulation board with a fire resisting asbestos cement surface, and the latter is a roofins board with a strong lvearing surface.

Carl Moore Opens Office

Carl R. Moore, representative of Moore Mill & Lumber Co. in the East Bay area, has opened an ofifrce at 1924 Broadrvay, Oakland. His telephone number is Hlgate 5028.

On Fishing Vacation

Harry G. Hood, of the San Francisco omce of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. is on a two weeks' fishing vacation on the Klamath River with E. J. Stewart, general superintendent of the Dolbeer & Carson mill.