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UNIHOYAL
CHEM-TEXTS
Vol. 11, 1977 PUBLISHED FOR THE PEOPLE OF UNIHOYAL CHEMICAL No. 3
10 Unihoyal Footwear
Scholarships Operations
Offered To Close
NAUGATUCK, CONN. –
The Company has announced
a tentative decision has been
made to shut down the fabric
footwear operations at the Foot-
wear Plant.
Presently, there are four as-
sembly lines, employing approxi-
mately 750 wage and salaried
people, producing fabric shoes.
Imports and high labor costs are
forcing the company to study
the economics of manufacturing
footwear in Naugatuck. Previ-
ous reductions have resulted in
the layoff of over 1,000 em-
ployees.
If these tentative plans should
materialize, some footwear pro-
duction operations will be moved
from the Naugatuck plant to
other Unihoyal footwear manu-
facturing facilities. However,
other operations in the plant,
such as warehousing, custom
mixing and sponge undcrlay
manufacturing, would not be af-
fected by this tentative decision.
Ten Unihoyal Merit scholar-
ships are offered to children of
employees through the nation-
wide scholarship program of the
National Merit Scholarship Cor-
poration.
All children of Unihoyal em-
ployees, who have more than 5
years of continuous service as of
the date of the award, are eligible
for the scholarships.
Application Must Be Filed
for Scholarships
Applications for the 1979
scholarships must be submitted
by November 30, 1977. They
can be obtained from the Indus-
trial Relations Dept. along with
a folder which gives complete de-
tails on the scholarships. Call
Constance Antrum, Ext. 3217.
Students who wish to apply for
the scholarships should do so
their Junior year by taking the
Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude
and National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test, which are
usually given in October by the
high school. Students should
check the school office for the
dates of the tests.
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Plant Tour-Picnic Held
The tours included visits to the Research & Development Laboratory, Bldg. 81; the new Roylar
Bldg. 86; the new FOC plant, Bldg. 124; and the new Power House.
On Sunday, October 2, the Research & Laboratory Bldg.: ber. In the tent an array of
first annual Plant Tour and Pic- the new Roylar’s polyurethane finished samples made from the
nic was held. Although the dispenses. diluents, and the plant’s products provided an in-
tours turned out to be a great new Ester Glo. Also, the plant’s teresting display to the em-
success, it was followed by a pic- Boiler House. ployees.
nic at Lake Quassapaug in the In each building employees In the tent building em-
afternoon. and their spouses were given a ployees and their spouses were
The tour included visits to brief description of the activities given a short description of the
by R. J. Lak
New Business for the Plant
The Chemical plant is purchasing equip-
ment to formulate Comite® and Omite® G-E-
inicides in Bldg. 100 from Omite Tech. The
new equipment includes a new weigh scale in
100 Building and a canning machine in 118
Building, capable of canning out one, two,
and five gallon pails. Completion of this in-
stallation is scheduled for early 1978.
For Domestic and Foreign Markets
This fall, Naugatuck will formulate Comite
for the Florida market and Omite G-E for the
Export market. These orders consist of 13,000
gals. (115,000 Ibs.) of Comite in five gallon
pails, and 4,000 gals. (40,000 Ibs.) of Omite
G-E in five gallon pails.
To Increase in 1978
Formulation plans for 1978 will include
50,000 gals. (1,000,000 Ibs.) of Comite G-E;
21,000 gals. (210,000 Ibs.) of Omite G-E. This
material will be formulated and shipped the
Ist and 2nd quarters of 1978.
Philip Duarte loads a pallet of 5 gal. cans of Comite® miticide
onto a trailer truck as James Nolan, center, and Robert McDer-
mott check the shipment.
activities in the building by a supervisory mem-
ber. In the tent an array of
finished samples made from the
plant’s products provided an in-
teresting display to the em-
ployees.
Income, Sales Up
The Company’s 3rd quarter
net income was $5.1 million com-
pared with a loss of $7.7 million
in the same period a year ago.
Sales were $599 million com-
pared with $489 million in the
3rd quarter of 1976.
9 Months Income and Sales
Net income for the nine
months of 1977 was $14.7 mil-
lion or $1.17 a share compared
with $6.900 in 1976.
While sales for the nine months
of 1977 were $1.96 billion com-
pared with $1.65 billion in 1976.
Tire Sales Up
The Sales of Tires and Related
Products were $340 million com-
pared with $272 million in 1976.
While unit sales continue to
increase in the tire category,
industry-wide price pressures in
the U.S. are affected by inflation
these pressures are continuing
into the 4th quarter.
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