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Merry Christmas – Happy New Year
CHEM-TEXTS
PUBLISHED FOR THE PEOPLE OF UNIROYAL CHEMICAL
Good Packaging Keeps
Customers; Helps Sales
WHICH ONE WOULD YOU BUY?
As the customer you would naturally pass up the dented cans on the left and select the best looking cans on the right.
As a customer you make the decision when selecting a product to purchase for yourself. Surely you would have no difficulty deciding which one of these packages you would buy.
The people who buy our products are just like us. We may not be impressed by what a salesman or an advertisement claims the product will do . . . but our decision to buy or not to buy the product is definitely influenced by how the product looks.
Now, suppose for a moment that you are our customer, and that you are going to purchase some products from the Naugatuck plant of Uniroyal Chemical. What kind of packages would you expect to receive? As the customer you would certainly expect the best.
As our customer what kind of cans or packages would you accept? The important role that the customer plays in our business is expressed in these Ten Commandments of Good Business:
1. A Customer is the most important person in our plant.
2. A Customer is not dependent on us – we are dependent on him.
3. A Customer is not an interruption of our work – he is the purpose of it.
4. A Customer does us a (Continued on page 3)
New Front To Building 84 Progresses; Plant Protection
And New Reception Room To Be Located In Building
Architect’s rendering shows new front to building and location of the two turnstiles.
Construction is well underway on the new addition to Building 84 scheduled for completion early in 1969.
The guard station now located in Building 75 will be moved to this building becoming the control center for the television monitor and intercom systems for the other plant entrances, as well as for the telephone relays and fire alarm systems. A guard will be on duty at the Main gate on a 24-hour a day basis to monitor all vehicle traffic entering the plant and pedestrian traffic and to check visitors entering the plant.
The building will be constructed to permit maximum visibility by the guard of both traffic entering the plant and during shift changes, the second turnstile will operate in the “exit” direction only. Other turnstiles will be located at the Tire gate and Synthetic Plastics plants.
The new passes will be issued to all employees when the turnstiles are installed. Should an employee forget his pass, he will have to contact the watchman and prove his identification before admittance into the plant.
Karl Pittner of the Engineering department is the project engineer for the new addition.
Equal Opportunity
A Uniroyal Policy
This statement by G.R. Vila, Chairman and President of Uniroyal, affirms one of Uniroyal’s basic policies on Equal Opportunity. “We believe in equality of opportunity for all people and will not discriminate because of race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin or ancestry.”
The next Chem-Texts will print the full text of Uniroyal’s policy.
Drawing shows how new front connects with present Building 84.
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FROM THE FACTORY MANAGER
Dear Fellow Employee:
Again the joys of the holiday season are upon us renewing the eternal promise of peace and goodwill among all men. A constant promise to a changing world. Let us take this moment to reflect upon the accomplishments of the past year.
Let us face the challenges of the new year with resolution. A resolve that we will each strive for creative change with the goal of better understanding one another as well as our common purpose.
Please accept my most sincere wishes for you and your family: a Most Joyous Christmas and the Best of Health and Happiness throughout the New Year.
John D. Evans
25 YEAR CLUB HOLDS ANNUAL DINNER: MONAHAN RECEIVES 50 YEAR SERVICE AWARD
New members who received their 25 Year Service Awards.
The Uniroyal Chemical 25 Year Club held its 19th Annual Dinner in November at the Waverly Inn. The Club is an association of Chemical Division employees who have been regularly credited with 25 or more years of service with the Company.
Eligibility for membership and for service awards is recognized at the annual dinner of employees who expect to achieve such eligibility during the calendar year. Total membership in the Club at present is 351.
Receiving 30 Year awards were G. Bakvis, A. Brazicki, I. Fronczak, W.A. Heller, M. Jannety, P. Paul, J. Rek, S. Slawski, F. Stencel, Stendenski and L. Swanson.
New members with 25 Years service were E. Adams, P.E. Barnhart, G. Baron, R. Bell, I. Borzenski, L. Bruce, A. Christensen, J. Ceballos, I. Cravo, R. Crotty, G. Dennis, H. Drummer, L. Engle, W. Fairclough, E. Fischer, B. Fisher, Jr., F. Haase, W. Hill Jr., M. Hilton, J. Kawecki, G. Kuhn, M. Marcello, J. Moye, P. McPhail, C. Mielo, J. Napp, C. Nelson, L. Nicely, R. Noury, A. Olson, J. Pereira, F. Rinaldi, H. Royle, R. Santarsiere, M. Sprillo, F. Thilmony, W. Swack, L. Triano, W. Wasilis, W.W. White, M. Wilson and F. Zetterlinower.
Uniroyal Will Match Your Donation To A College
Today more than ever, colleges and universities need more money to build more classrooms, libraries, laboratories and other facilities along with improving and increasing their teaching staffs.
As the demands for a college education continue to grow colleges and universities will need greater help than ever before to not only improve but expand their facilities to meet these demands. This help will have to come from companies, foundations and individual donations, or else many deserving students will be turned away for lack of space.
To encourage our donations for education Uniroyal will match our contribution of more than $25.00 to a college or university to be accredited or actively seeking such accreditation.
Application forms for the “Employee Matching Gift” program may be obtained from the Industrial Relations department.
The matching of contributions will be made only after the Uniroyal “Employee Matching Gift” application forms have been filled out by the employee; approved and signed by the financial officer of the educational institution and returned to the Uniroyal Foundation.
2 Lost Time; 3 Serious Injuries Occur During Month Of November
In November, 2 lost time injuries occurred in Chemical Production. An operator lost control of a full 55 gal. drum while taking it off a pallet. He suffered severe bruises and abrasions of the lower leg, resulting in 5 lost-time days.
The second injury involved an operator who suffered 2nd. degree burns to his right foot, and is expected to be out for one month.
How To Take Care Of An Expensive Camera
Let’s say you own an expensive stereo movie camera. Let’s say it’s really a rare model, capable of taking action shots in 3D and available light conditions of available light.
Would you ever think of dropping it on the sidewalk? Would you tap its twin lenses with a hammer? Throw pieces of metal at them? Of course not. Your eyes are “your personal, stereo movie camera, and no one has perfected substitute eyes that can see and take their place.
The transparent cornea covering each of your eyes is only a tiny fraction of an inch in thickness. Thus, additional protection is imperative to keep danger from your eyes. If you’re doing work that presents even a minor hazard to your eyes, find out from your foreman or supervisor what protection you need. Then … get it and use it.
Protecting your eyes is a full time job, no matter what activity you’re engaged. Don’t risk permanent damage to your priceless personal camera.
It’s the one camera that can’t be replaced.
Never put a poisonous or toxic substance in a container designed to contain food, such as milk bottles, soft drink bottles, or cereal boxes.
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Good Packaging (Continued from Page 1)
YOU BE THE CUSTOMER . . . WHICH WOULD YOU BUY?
Packages on left are dirty and in poor condition. As the customer, you would buy the clean packages.
5. A Customer is part of our business – not an outsider.
6. A Customer is not a cold statistic – he is a flesh-and-blood human being with feelings and emotions like our own.
7. A Customer is not someone to argue or match wits with.
8. A Customer is a person who brings us his wants – it is our job to fill those wants.
9. A Customer is deserving of the most courteous and attentive treatment we can give him.
10. A Customer is the life-blood of this and every business.
Since the customer is the most important person in our business, each of us has the responsibility to provide them with the best in packaging, whether it’s our chemicals, rubber or latex products. Undented, clean-looking, and neat-identified packages will help us to keep our customers satisfied and even improve our business.
Plant Sponsors H.S. Junior Achievement Company
Uniform, received its official operating charter as a new “business firm” from John Evans, Francis Szczesiul, a sophomore at Naugatuck High School, was elected president of the Company.
The purpose of Junior Achievement is to give high school students a real opportunity to learn about business by running a business. Uniform is an actual business enterprise, for real materials and real work produce a real product which is sold to customers to make a real profit.
Members learn the meaning of Capital – because they raise the money to operate the Company. They learn the meaning of Productivity because they see how poor production practices jeopardize their sales and profit.
Junior Achievement gives students an opportunity to obtain an accurate understanding of the basic economic factors of our business system. The key word to understanding business is profit, a word which creates considerable misunderstanding about business. Without profit, a business cannot grow and provide jobs, wages, and dividends to stockholders. Profit is a vital function of the Company and must be paid to stockholders who invested in the Company and built new facilities.
Uniform pays regular salaries to its officers and personnel. It also pays taxes; keeps accounting records; carries insurance; and pays dividends to stockholders in the form of profits as made; and performs just about every business practice and procedure of a large corporation. Learning by doing teaches students the facts about business operations.
NOVEMBER 1968 – ACCIDENTS IN DEPARTMENTS
[Accident statistics table omitted]
Jim Kennedy Retires Recently
Ed Weaving, watches as Jim Kennedy, center, is congratulated by John Evans on his retirement. Kennedy, a member of the Naugatuck Police Commissioners, had more than 28 year’s Company service. Jim is presently a member of the Naugatuck Police Commissioners.
Minor Injuries Can Become Serious: Report Them Immediately To Hospital
Some of us don’t usually think much of a small cut, scratch, blister or a bruise as anything serious. But, we should think again. The “little injuries” usually don’t worry us because they don’t take us off the job or put us into a hospital bed. They don’t. But, if we take the simple step of reporting the injury promptly for competent, first-aid treatment at the plant, it’s possible to prevent the “little injury” from turning into something serious.
This means all injuries, including cuts, scratches, strains and bruises. None of these may be serious in themselves, but they can become serious through neglect, any one of them may start something through infection.
Don’t gamble with good health and safety – be your own first-aid man and decide, not later, but as soon as something happens, to report it – no matter how little it seems. This has actually happened in a number of cases in the plant with rather painful and regrettable results.
Remember to report all injuries at once, even the “little ones” and get proper first-aid treatment from those qualified to give it. See the plant nurse right away during the day; or at night, contact the night supervisor.
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G.E. Uses Kralastic In Appliances For Quality
General Electric, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of appliances, selected our Kralastic ABS plastic for its new portable vacuum cleaner over competitive plastics for its special properties and quality. The new portable vacuum cleaner is lightweight, compact and easy to carry. The R & D department is presently working on an anti-static Kralastic for G.E. and other manufacturers. Plastics have a tendency to “attract” dust particles, but this new anti-static type will eliminate this problem and give us a competitive advantage.
Kralastic, one of the Chemical Division’s major plastic products, is used for Samsonite luggage, ATI telephones – the telephone on your desk or at home is probably Kralastic – and by GM for automotive grilles. Keen competition in pricing, packaging and new product development with such companies as Monsanto, Marbon Division of Borg-Warner, Goodrich and others, requires continued efforts to improve our product and particularly new types of Kralastic to meet customer demands and the influx of new plastics into the market.
As one of the leading manufacturers of plastics in the U.S., we continued product improvement through Research and Development will maintain our position.
In 1969 ABS plastic automotive parts will account for 60,000,000 pounds or six and a half pounds per car. Use in 1970 is expected to climb to 80,000,000 pounds; and in 1975 it is forecast that the automotive industry will consume 200,000,000 pounds or 25 pounds per car. Combined with the growth in appliances and other markets, Kralastic’s growth helps the sales of two chemicals made at Naugatuck, Polycard and Naugatone. Polycard improves the heat stability and Naugatone prevents heat discoloration in ABS plastics.
General Electric’s new portable vacuum cleaner made from Kralastic ABS plastic is light, powerful and easy to use.
ABS has a bright future for the Chemical Division’s sales. Its growth helps the sales of two chemicals made at Naugatuck, Polycard and Naugatone.
Frank Zettelmeyer Wins Safety Slogan Contest
Hank DeVries, safety supervisor, right, presents Frank Zettelmeyer, center, with $25.00 award for submitting the winning Safety Slogan. Watching at left is Charlie Diering.
Accidents happen fast, submitted by Frank Zettelmeyer was selected by the Safety Committee as the winning slogan in the 4th Safety Slogan Contest. More than 60 slogans were entered in the contest.
To date 60 employees have written slogans on improving the safety attitude among employees.
All employees and their families may enter the contest by writing a slogan of 10 words or less. Send in as many as you want. You or a member of your family may win the $25. award.
Entries should be sent to Hank DeVries, Safety Supervisor, Bldg. 84 by Jan. 15.
SAFETY SLOGAN
Contest #6
Date:
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Address:
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Apply 3 Months Before 65 For Social Security
Visit your local social security office three months before you reach 65 with the following papers:
1. Your social security card
2. A record of the number.
3. In birth certificate or baptismal record.
4. Your wife’s (or husband’s) birth certificate, if married.
5. Your children’s birth certificates under 18, or certificates of unmarried full-time students under 22 (or of a child 18 or older if totally disabled) before 18.
6. Your wife’s birth certificate and social security card.
7. Your marriage certificate.
Synthetic Production Mechanical Dept. And R & D
Win Free Coffee
Three departments worked about a half time or serious injury in November to qualify for “Free Coffee.” The Chemical Dept. includes both the chemical and synthetic groups.
Members of the Three departments can obtain their “Free Coffee” cards from the Foreman or Supervisor.
Let’s all work through December with a greater concern for our personal safety and fellow employees.
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