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UNIROYAL CHEM-TEXTS

Vol. 5, 1971 | PUBLISHED FOR THE PEOPLE OF UNIROYAL CHEMICAL | No. 5

Construction Started On New $3,200,000 Pretreatment Plant

Nine Months Sales Up

Net income for the nine months ending October 3, was $33,234,000, equivalent to $1.10 per share of common stock compared with $27,852,000 or 92 cents a share for the comparable period last year, an increase of 19.3%. Earnings were equivalent to $1.04 per common share after adjustment for the potential dilution related to the company’s convertible debentures issued in February 1971.

Sales for the nine months totaled $1,277,000,000, a gain of 8% over the $1,183,-000,000 for the same period in 1970.

Net income of Uniroyal, Inc. for the 3rd quarter totaled $7,130,000, equivalent to 22 cents per common share, a gain of 38.6% compared with $5,143,000, or 14 cents per share, reported for the quarter last year. Sales increased 9% to $400,-000,000 compared with

$366,000,000 for the third quarter of 1970.

Net income for the 3rd quarter and 9 months was adversely affected by the following factors: freeze of price increases; wage increase costs prior to the

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Drive Nears $21,000

by Jim Carroll

The United Givers drive to raise $21,000 for the 16 Agencies in the Fund which provide needed services for families in communities in which most employees live is nearly completed.

Employees have pledged $20,260 to date and only $740 is needed to achieve the plant’s goal of $21,000. The average contribution amounts to $21.40 per employee who donated.

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Unions Elect Officers

[PHOTO: Two images showing union officers]

Joe Rzeszutek, left, was elected President. Cy Blanchard, right, Vice President; and Henry Hook, to the Executive Committee.

by T. Lee and F. Mayo

439 URW Local 218 Union members elected new union officers for a 3 year term.

Joe Rzeszutek was elected President for a seventh

(Cont’d. on page 3)

Charles Roland, right, new 308 President is congratulated by Rocco Manulla, left, Art Calder, right, and Frank Sordi.

by Walt Tabaka

URW Local 308 members elected Charles Roland, President for a three year term. Also voted into office were Rocco Manulla, Vice-Pres-

(Cont’d. on page 3)

by Dick Shaw

Quietly along the Naugatuck River bank, opposite the Synthetic plant, construction of the new $3,200,000 liquid waste pretreatment plant is making rapid progress. Completion is scheduled for the Fall of 1972.

The facilities will pretreat 3,000,000 gallons of waste water a day for discharge into the Boro of Naugatuck’s water pollution control plant for secondary biological treatment. After treatment at the Boro’s plant, the water will be discharged into the Naugatuck River which is classified “C”, and suitable for fish, game and wildlife.

The steel superstructure for the Operations Building is complete and work has started on the interior of the building which will serve as the operational center for the pretreatment facility. A waste water collection pipeline, encased in solid concrete to prevent upheaval and breakage during high water periods, has been installed at the base of the river bank. This pipeline will connect the plant’s discharge outlets to a new pump station currently under construction near the south yard sewer outfall.

Foundations for the two 82 ft. diameter clarification

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[AERIAL PHOTO: Shows pretreatment plant construction site]

The Pretreatment plant occupies an acre of land near the Synthetic reactor area along the Naugatuck river.

987 Join Stock Plan

by Jack Dunn

987 Chemical Division employees exercised their options to participate in the third stock purchase plan for Uniroyal employees.

These employees elected to purchase 59,617 shares of Uniroyal common stock by 46 payroll deductions over the next 2 years.

The purchase price of the stock was $19.3125.

The enrollment figure represents 61% of the Chemical division employees at the Naugatuck location.

18,000 Uniroyal employees

in the U.S. and Canada joined the plan, electing to purchase over 800,000

(Cont’d. on page 4)

[PHOTO: Construction site view]

The $3,200,000 facility will be completed by the Fall of 1972.

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UNIROYAL CHEM-TEXTS

Vol. 2 PUBLISHED FOR THE PEOPLE OF UNIROYAL CHEMICAL No. 4

United Givers Goal, $20,000 “Give Where You Work” Urged

Ron Mitchinson, Chairman of the United Givers Campaign to be conducted in the plant during October, urges 100% employee participation and “Give Where You Work” to support the 16 worthwhile Agencies in the Fund. Many of these Agencies serve not only Naugatuck and Beacon Falls, but most of the surrounding towns in the area. Some like the U.S.O., Salvation Army, United Cerebral Palsy and Red Cross are national in their service.

Most plant employees and their families have been served by one or more of these organizations. Their need for money this year is greater than ever to continue their good work. By giving “where you work” and contributing through the payroll deduction plan at least one hour’s pay monthly for wage employees or 1% of annual income for salary employees, the plant goal of $20,000 can be easily reached.

In the 1967 Campaign 67% of Chemical employees contributed $17,775. About 560 employees did not contribute. On the Pledge card every employee will find at least one Agency which he or his family wants to help support.

The Campaign Committee is E. Alves, S. Gillette, E. Johnson, W. Tavelle, L. Lombardi, D. Miller, J. Rzeszutek, and R. Van Allen. Close to 100 Co-Captains will contact every employee during the Campaign.

Co-Captains are B. Sullivan, E. Evans, L. Taranowich, L. Soares, M. Rosa, H. Steele, N. Krenitsky, J. Valinho, P. Tortorici, M. Chmielewski, J. McKee, G. Browning, E. Jancis, B. Perkins, C. Fernandes, P. Braudis, A. Ferro, W. Jones, T. Brett, R. Mastromatteo, R. Cote, C. Buckley, R. Harsch, P. Hinckley, D. Malloy, W. Parks, J. McGinn, I. Prager, R. Farrell, W. Smith, J. Phelan, W. Singleton, R. Amidon, W. Budd, G. Arndt, P. Murray, L. Flynn, F. Adams, E. Cheney, R. Lestage, G. Birch, H. Hook, F. Rodrigues, W. Campbell, H. Francolini, D. Poehailos, H. Lynch, R. Ames, C. Reich, L. Terra, A. Pistarelli, M. Paiva, D. Rappe, A. Nauges, T. Skehan, R. Foltz, B. Dunn, J. Rice, J. Bucciaglia, K. Dowling, R. Magnamino, F. Magnamo, E. Ruella, R. Breton, J. Bielak, J. Honyotski, D. Cowan, R. Valentine, D. Gabriel, R. Kaiser, J. Charkow, C. Roland, R. Manulla, J. Wojtczak, W. Bieleski, R. Magnamo, F. Enamait, S. Perkus, J. Sullivan, T. McMahon, W. Leukhardt, J. Quint, L. Nappiello, D. George, Geo. Arndt, H. Scullin, F. Lynch, J. Murtha, A. Juliano, J. Vergosen, R. Terino, E. Weaving, S. Aloise, F. Sabia, and J. Tierney.

One gift works many wonders

[IMAGE: Young child’s face]

GIVE THE UNITED WAY

[IMAGE: Industrial facility with storage tank and buildings]

Size of new 300,000 gallon oil storage tank and steel dike is shown partially on left, compared to rest of boiler plant. In center is the new fuel oil transfer and heating facilities building.

Boiler Plant Converts To Oil Reduces Air Pollution In Area

Another major step has been taken by the Chemical division to reduce air pollution in Naugatuck and surrounding towns by using oil instead of coal in its boiler plant. This conversion will reduce air pollution by virtually eliminating the large amounts of fly-ash now discharged from the two smoke stacks. The plan also incorporates future improvements in air pollution abatement.

The new 300,000 gallon fuel oil storage with a protective dike surrounding it, has already been installed above ground on the south side of the boiler plant where the coal pile was formerly located. A new fuel oil transfer pump house will unload the fuel oil into the storage tank. The tank will take care of a 6 days supply during the heavy winter load.

The tank sits on the earth rather than a concrete foundation. Before construction, the huge coal piles had to be removed, and a 6 ft. deep excavation made. The 6 ft. “hole” was filled with layers of gravel, vibration rolled and wet down to 95% compaction to give a rock base foundation.

Working on the project were George Arndt, Utilities Engineer, responsible for the overall planning of the project. Vic Anderson was Control Engineer for instrumentation and electrical equipment; Paul DeAngelis was in charge of piping layout and design; Frank Gaizutis supervised structural engineering of the project. Charles Hescheles of Corporate Engineering provided specialized assistance on the project.

SAFETY IS MY RESPONSIBILITY

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UNIROYAL

Merry Christmas – Happy New Year

CHEM-TEXTS

Vol. 2 PUBLISHED FOR THE PEOPLE OF UNIROYAL CHEMICAL No. 6

Good Packaging Keeps Customers; Helps Sales

[IMAGE: Two Campbell’s Tomato Soup cans – one dented, one in perfect condition]

WHICH ONE WOULD YOU BUY?

[IMAGE: Two damaged/dented cans]

As the customer you would naturally pass up the dented cans on the left and select the neat 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 or 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 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 any business.
  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

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New Front To Building 84 Progresses: Plant Protection And New Reception Room To Be Located In Building

[IMAGE: Architect’s rendering showing new front to building and location of the two turnstiles]

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 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 passing under the railroad underpass.

A new, enlarged reception room is also included in the new addition as a visitors’ waiting room. Visitors will contact plant employees from the reception room and will be escorted into the plant by the employee.

Two turnstiles will be located at the Main gate. To enter the plant, an employee will insert a “magnetized pass” for the turnstile to operate and allow him to enter. To reduce congestion

during shift changes, the second turnstile will operate in the “exit” direction only. Other turnstiles will be located at the Tire gate and Synthetic plant entrances.

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.

[IMAGE: Drawing shows how new front connects with present Building 84]

Drawing shows how new front connects with present Building 84.