Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 31

13a rrrrsBUHGn post-gazette! Tuesday, January 195 .1 i Big Expansion Gibson Plant Kept Busy MIXED TRENDS IN 53 Living costs inch to peak: wholesale prices off a bit. 12? Wholesl Prices Living it's big Hard to move Difficult to install Testing Lab Here Expects Active Year Inspection Service Extended to Other Field Examinations By A. K. ELLIS Chairman. Pittsburgh Trstlng Laboratory We handled the greatest volume of business in our history in 1933.

The outlook for 1954 100 uvwu jfZ-J PHiCES 9 1 1 1 1 1 r-sr, hc-W metals, superior electrical contacts could be produced. In addition to contacts made by powder metallurgy processes, Gibson manufactures contacts of silver and silver alloys and assemblies involving contact supports made of copper, copper alloys and other metals. The firm employs S3 and is currently operating on a six-day, around-the-clock basis' at its plant in Frankstown Avenue. The company is now headed by President Herbert C. Graves, Jr.

Mrs. A. B. Gibson, wife of the founder, is chairman of the board and is active as vice president and treasurer. In 20 years a Pittsburgh firm has parlayed a unique method of electrical contact manufacture into a substantial business serving industrial giants in the electrical field.

Gibson Electric Company, founded by the late Dr. A. B. Gibson in 1033, tripled its pre-World War II business volume during the war, and since World War II has nearly tripled what it was doing during the war effort. Dr.

libson began his electrical contact business on one technical premise: By making electrical contacts out of metal powders instead of using conventional alloys or unalloyed 323 JO 50 EST J5 40 1J VtAHLY PAT Call Psfar V. 5. Labor S'oliitirs Morris JCer is Erood. i eciion Allegheny 1-3600 anrt a 1 7- raphy service was extended to the examine i of welded structures in the field, including the three-mile twin 20- i pipe line across In Refractory Trade Over E. A.

AKBE.R- Presidpnt. Harbison-Walker Refractories Company The physical expansion program of the refractories industry, is about completed. Harbison-Walker's expansion and modernization program, which was begun in 1949, has involved the expenditure of over and has increased the company's capacity by approximately 33 per cent. We are now in position to give more prompt deliveries with improved products. The increase in capacity has brought deliveries to a normal basis.

While economic indications point to some slackening of demand, I believe the refractories industry can look forward to a satisfactory year in 1954. Demand for refractory products of higher quality has led to the abandonment of some formerly satisfactory mineral reserves, and has stimulated the search for deposits of high-grade raw materials. Harbison-Walker is engaged in active prospecting both within the United States and abroad. Increased emphasis is being placed on research. The refractory requirements in this atomic and jet-powered age are becoming increasingly severe.

New metals and alloys and processes in the mineral and chemical industries require refractories with improved properties or entirely new compositions. A Sales Effort To Be Factor Br WILLIAM O'NEILL President. General Tire Rubber Company Renewed service selling coupled with new products coming from the laboratory will form a barrier against recession. Salesmen are going to have to get back to selling to meet the test of this transition period. And the competition of increased selling will also inject new life into the national business picture.

Moore-Flesher Hauling Co. INCORPORATED Experienced Specialists in HEAVY HAULING AND RIGGING Covering a 75-Sfofe Area Mr. Ellis Plan for Greater Steel Mill Safety During 1954 HERE ARI JlisT A FEW Of THI JOBS HANDLED IY OUR SKILLED SUPERVISORS, DRIVERS AND CREWS: This Thtrmof type Geagl Volve is ts typien! ftem if Bailey Equipment contributing to lafety in th nation's steal mills. Sales and profits for 1953 will establish new records and pros pects are bright for 1954. Mobile Homes Gain Preble Ave.

and Adams St. Pittsburgh 33, Pa. Delivery into Installation position ef BM Telephone new dial equipment. Houlinq end placing of coaxial cables and TV towers. Structural steel delivery en Gateway buildings, U.

S. Steel Alu-minum Co. Biqe-low Apartments. Transportation and positioning Turnpike Bridge steel units. The two millionth American the Straits of Mackinac; a 190-mile 20-inch gas pipe line across the swamps of Louisiana (another one is in the making) and the largest steel sphere ever constructed, 225 feet in diameter, at Schenectady, N.

for the Atomic Energy Commission. The inspection service was used on many local structures. It is also covering all the construction work on the Ohio Turnpike. The laboratory's branches at Detroit and Cleveland as well as the main laboratory in Pittsburgh are being used on this project. Inspectors are stationed at nearly every point where materials or equipment for this turnpike are being produced.

The laboratory's "soils engineering" service in the exploration of foundations for buildings and bridges is becoming more common. There was increased use of the laboratory's research and testing service. Many tests were made for others conducting research who do not possess the heavy testing equipment, which is available in this institution. moved out of a conventional home and into a house on wheels in 1953, according to the Plus: Plant ditmanfling find relocating, inttlfoitw cl hwy mcthinery, treniporteitien ef huge equipment vnitt. Mobile Homes Manufacturers Association.

Th Importance of taking posttlvo eictlen to maintain steel mill safety at a high level becomes more apparent each year. We get great pleasure from the knowledge that Bailey Equipment contributes in many ways to the protection of men end equipment in the plants of America's steel producers. Along with traditional holiday greetings goes our sincere wish that you and your company may enjoy the benefits of the ultimate in safety. MAKERS OF; Gogol Volvir Clay Guns. Pug Mills, Cinder Notch Stoppers, Pig Costing Machines, Blast Furnace Valves, Blast Furnace Stove Checkers American Is World's Best Credit Manager ARTHUR O.

DIETZ President, C. I. T. Financial Corp. In 1953 the American consumer proved again that he is the best credit manager in the world.

Four out of every ten consumers have no debt at all and only 29 per cent of them owe as much as $1,000. ii Mm i ii ill iii ii in m. ili ii.i.uiiijw iinii.i. .11 I 1 Harbison-Walker has been supplying the refractories used in the construction of every kind of furnace for the production of iron, steel, aluminum, copper, jV nickel and other metals; coke and by-products; chemicals, glass, cement; for the I generation of steam, and for substantially all manufactured products, A1 2322 jM 25 33,1 a ft ft WBtft. 3 4 IJfef 1 six 2i S(Jy .1 Hi 121 ii! X'-' 9X a si 1 1 f7CSv TS'fl A'jJ 'j; -4 4 limn 2 Hi' if TODAY I 1 4 I 1 Mil 1 Harbison-Walker and its subsidiaries operate 88 plants, mines and quarries in 16 states and in Canada, producing refractories of all types including rilica.

fireclay, high-alumina, magnesite, chrome and forsterite and various special products such as mortars, cements, plastic fire brick, castables and other monolithic-forming refractories. Significant in the growttfof the company has been its alertness in keeping in step with the continually changing demands of industry. This progressive policy has required many advances in the production art, success in the scientific development of new typesof refractories, extensive research, aid to the users in fitting the refractory to the particular need and the continual maintenance of highest quality standards. There axe Harbison-Walker products for all refractory requirement. (5 rt.l,.,rl.y ky BRADY STtWART STUDIO power, mining, aluminum and transportation industries.

During the past sixty-odd years Heyl A Patterson has operated it does today an independent industrial intttufion owned and operated by Pittsburgh people. The executives of Heyl Patterson share in the belief of Pittsburgh's civic and business leaders that the Gateway Center is a beacon light leading a really Greater Pittsburgh. Since Hey! A. Patterson has been a well- knen and respected name in the steel, coal. WHO WE ARE.

WE DO bauxite and other Heay Bulk Material. The keynote of Heyl Patterson is its ability to do a complete job All the Way from Design to Erection. Heyl Patterson's integrity, reputation and engineering experience guarantee the high standards of engineering, fabricating, erecting and servicing that through the years have been a tradition ith Heyl Patterson. Hey! Be Fttefon i primarily a firm of contracting engineers specializing in the design, fabrication and erection of Heavy Bulk Materials Handling Equipment. This broad category includes ore bridges, railroad car dumpers, coal preparation plants, boat loaders and unloaders.

conveying systems in fact, all types of equipment used for the transportation, conveying and transfer of coal. ore. Harbison-Walker Refractories Company Ore BfMa Cl Cot HnnWIino Fuipm.nt Roin.vpM Onnfue O' Hw! Mcvf Bnilrood Cor Dumpar Bot loed.rs ond Unloorf.r Rotnry Mine Cor Dumper RroWfprrf Rr.nt.n wigk lift-Twrnovtr-Retory Cyclone Thick.n.r Cpol Crushers Rfv Dipsol Cor Cool Preporotion Plonts Reinevefd Fin. Cool Dryers Cool Storog. Bridge Thonten Cool Sompler AND SUBSIDIARIES World's Largest Producer of Refractories GENERAL OFFICES PITTSBURGH 22, PENNSYLVANIA vy Bulk Material I Handling Equipment All Tfc Way from Dt1qn free ft en 1 QO Otkut QnX) QOQOyQ QQ.