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CHEM-TEXTS
Vol. 9, 1975 PUBLISHED FOR THE PEOPLE OF UNIROYAL CHEMICAL No. 3
Company Announces Tentative Closing
Of Reclaim Rubber Operations
200 Employees Affected
For years the rumor has per- necessary to announce a tenta-
sisted that the Reclaim Rubber tive decision to close it down.
Plant would close down because New Markets Do Not
of the declining demand for Materialize
reclaimed rubber, the marketing The sales department at-
of radial tires, and annual losses due to tempted to increase prices and
lower demand. generate new markets but the
It seems that the 80 year era efforts were not successful in
may now be at an end when the search and Deno emer
plant management announced continued to be made of
the tentative plans to close it Connecticut on the use of it in
down in a statement to the roads but the progress has been
officers of the UKW Local 218 slow and no substantial results
on May 21. seem to be in the offing.
Constant Efforts Made to
Keep Operating Fuel Use
Over the past years the plant’s Down; But
management and the union’s of-
ficers have analyzed ways to re- Costs Go Up
duce costs and improve the out-
put of the operation but the The Energy Conservation Task
efforts have not been able to Force, organized in 1973 to con-
change the financial status of it. serve energy in the plant, was
The Company felt, after investi- unable to achieve a reduction of
gating all possibilities that it was 22.9% in fuel oil consumption
in 1974 as was the goal. The de-
crease amounted to an average saving
in oil equivalent to a .65 day
supply.
The drop in the use of steam
resulted from the repair of steam
leaks; improved techniques in
power use; cooperation by em-
ployees to close windows and
doors in buildings; improved
pipe insulation and good climatic
conditions inside the plant.
Although Use Is Down
Costs Almost Double
Under normal conditions the
22.9% reduction in oil would
have shown a substantial savings
in fuel costs. But because of the
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27 Receive Diplomas U.S. Issues 34 Patents;
One-Third of Uniroyal Total
Factory Manager James Cronin hands out diplomas to people
who graduated from the Techniques of Supervision Course.
Shown receiving diplomas are, left to right, Nelson Roblillard,
Annnette Grant, Cronin, Frederick Gould, the Instructors George Allen, and George Allen, who set up the educational pro-
gram.
After ten weeks of lectures, 27 graduates of the course to 61
on the Techniques of Super-
vision were, seven foremen and
supervisors graduated in a cere- room. Factory Manager James Cronin presented the certificates, bringing the total number of
Dr. Stephen Cantor, left, who received 5 patent awards, dis-
cusses new chemicals with Dr. Byron Bunch, who received his
first patents while with Uniroyal.
In addition, it received 109
patents in foreign countries, ex-
clusive of Canada.
The Company has the second
largest number in the division’s
history except for the year 1966
and represents one third of the
total awarded to the Company
by the U.S. The Company—as
a whole—received 109 U.S. pat-
ents.
1974 was a banner year for
the Chemical Division when 34
patents were issued to it by the
U.S. Patent Office, the
largest number in the division’s
history except for the year 1966.
Frederick Gould, an assistant
professor on the Connecticut
State Technical Colleges staff,
conducted the sessions. Having
been a Foreman at the Amer-
ican Brass Co. until operations in
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Dividend Declared
The company declared a div-
idend of $.75 cents a share on
the common stock, which is pay-
able June 25 to stockholders of
record on May 27.
A dividend of $.2 a share on
the 8% first preferred stock, was
declared by the Board of Direc-
tors on February 12, and is pay-
able June 25 to stockholders of
record on May 27.
The Reclaim Rubber plant dates back to 1892 and is the oldest production unit at the Naugatuck Chemical location. It recycles about 1,500,000 scrap tires a year.
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