UNIROYAL
Merry Christmas – Happy New Year
CHEM-TEXTS
Vol. 3, 1969 PUBLISHED FOR THE PEOPLE OF UNIROYAL CHEMICAL No. 11
[IMAGE: Two people decorating a Christmas tree]
Getting ready for the Christmas season, Madelyn Malone, left; and Molly Cobbol decorate tree in lobby of Main Entrance.
Frank Hopkins To Address The Foremen’s Club
by Lou Kaiser
Frank Hopkins, Vice President and General Manager of the Chemical division will address the Foremen’s Club January 15, 1970, at the Elks Club in Naugatuck.
Mr. Hopkins will discuss the present and future busi-
[IMAGE: Portrait photo of Frank A. Hopkins]
FRANK A. HOPKINS
ness outlook for the Chemical division, and the effects of the present economic trends on the divisions and the plant’s operations.
Man Falls, Breaks Leg
by Sal Aloise
A fall from a railroad tank car resulted in a broken leg and a bruised shoulder when an employee slipped and fell backwards. The accident occurred while he was placing a recirculating hose in the dome of the tank car. As a result of the injury he will be incapacitated 8 weeks.
The second lost time accident happened when an employee caught the heel of his foot in an elevator door while he was taking a product from the 1st to the 3rd floor of the building.
Besides the two lost time accidents in November, five serious injuries were reported for the month. This rate of accidents shows little improvement over last year.
With every effort being made by the plant to improve safety, no progress will be made in the prevention of injuries unless every employee continually thinks safety and avoids taking chances.
Now that winter is here, ice and snow conditions require a greater concern for
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Pollution Of Naugatuck River To Be Controlled
by Dick Shaw
The construction of a new liquid waste pretreatment facility at the Naugatuck plant at a cost of almost $3,000,000 has been approved by the Uniroyal Board of Directors. The new facility will control the plants pollution of the Naugatuck river.
The facilities will provide the necessary pretreatment of the plant’s waste waters and will prepare the complex mixture of chemical and water wastes for acceptance into the Borough of Naugatuck’s water pollution control facility.
Lower Cost To Taxpayer
The cooperative venture which provides for treatment of Uniroyal’s wastes in the Borough’s plant will result in lower costs to the taxpayers of Naugatuck and to the Company and will comply with the State’s Pollution Abatement laws.
Lower costs to the taxpayer will be realized since Uniroyal will pay a substantial portion of the operating costs due to the large volume of Company waste flow into the municipal plant.
[DIAGRAM: Schematic showing waste water treatment process flow, including:
– SYNTHETIC PLANT WASTE
– CHEMICAL PLANT WASTE
– NEUTRALIZATION AND PUMPING STATIONS
– WASTE EQUALIZATION TANKS
– OPERATIONS BUILDING
– WASTE WATER COAGULATION AND SETTLING TANKS
– PRETREATED WASTE MIXING TANK
– PRETREATED WASTE TO MUNICIPAL FACILITIES]
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Schematic drawing shows the new waste water pretreatment facility scheduled for 1972 completion.
Location At South End
The pretreatment facilities will be constructed along the
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[IMAGE: Industrial equipment/construction site]
At right is outflow of waste water into river. New waste water pretreatment unit will control pollution. At left is one of units used to pump waste water to model scale waste treatment unit.
Plant Loses Reclaim Sales
Tentative plans to halt production of bicycle tires and tubes, and reduce production of passenger car, heavy service, and farm tire tubes at the Indianapolis plant would affect our Naugatuck business.
Competition from foreign bicycle tires; the decline in passenger tire tubes, and competitive pressure from low cost tubes were cited as the reasons.
The proposed cutback would affect our butyl Reclaim business which is used for inner tubes.
It will also affect our sales of Aminox®, MBT, MBTS, 710 Stiffener, and Tuex chemical business. These chemicals are used in the manufacture of tires and tubes.