UNIROYAL CHEM-TEXTS
Vol. 5, 1971 | PUBLISHED FOR THE PEOPLE OF UNIROYAL CHEMICAL | No. 2
Crim Named IR Manager
Mitchinson, Melore Receive New Posts
Jesse Crim was named Industrial Relations Manager for the Naugatuck Chemical plant, effective June 1. He succeeds Ron Mitchinson who has accepted a position in the Corporate Industrial Relations Department in Oxford.
Neil Melore was appointed Industrial Relations Manager for the Painesville, Ohio plant.
Crim served as Industrial Relations Manager in Painesville from 1968-1971. He held the same position in the Santa Ana, Calif., and Washington, Ind. plants.
He joined Uniroyal in 1947; is a veteran of World War II; and a graduate of Purdue University.
Hats, Glasses Required
by Bob Shortt
As of May 1, hard hats and safety glasses were required to be worn in designated areas of the plant.
[IMAGE: Photo showing workers wearing safety equipment]
Joining the plant’s safety equipment program of wearing hard hats and safety glasses are two of its more attractive members. From left is Kay Dowling, Chemical Production, and Adeline Farrar, Chemical Plant nurse.
During April, foremen and supervisors discussed the new program with people in their departments. The program is based on a Section of the 1970 Uniroyal-
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Profits; Sales Up
Tires; Footwear Improve; Chemical Business Off
Uniroyal, Inc. income increased 10.6% to $10.6 million in the first quarter of 1971 compared with $9.5 million reported for the same period last year.
Sales in the first quarter climbed to a record of $413 million, about an 8% increase over the record $381 million set in 1970.
Uniroyal was the only Company of the “Big Four” rubber companies to report an increase in profits and sales for the first quarter of the year. Goodyear, Firestone, and Goodrich dropped during the quarter.
Tire, Footwear Business Up
Sales of original equipment tires hit an all-time high in the
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Phase I Of Liquid Waste Pretreatment Plant Started
Sewerage System Now Being Installed
[IMAGE: Photo showing industrial buildings and sewerage system installation]
A new sanitary sewerage system was installed in the Chemical yard to carry liquid discharges to main sewers of the Chemical plant system.
by Dick Shaw
The construction of Phase I of the new $3,000,000 Liquid Waste Pretreatment Plant is now in progress.
Phase I includes the installation of new sanitary sewers in the Reclaim, Chemical, and Synthetic plant yards. These new sewers will divert the sanitary sewage from the present side streams to the main sewers in order to be ready for transfer into the new pretreatment facilities.
Pretreats For Borough’s Secondary Treatment Plant
The new pretreatment facilities will pretreat the plant’s waste liquids for acceptance into the Borough of Naugatuck’s Secondary Treatment Plant.
Uniroyal Chemical has committed $1,500,000 toward the construction of the Borough’s waste disposal plant, and will pay 60% of the operational costs due to the large volume of the plant’s waste flowing into the Borough’s plant.
50% of Capital Expenditures Allocated to Pollution Control
In 1971, approximately 50% of the plant’s capital expenditures will be spent on pollution control facilities.
A major project currently under study is the elimination of the odors created by the Reclaim operations. By process changes, it is expected that the odors of the Reclaim plant will be controlled.
Waste Control Important
The efficient operation of the waste water treatment facilities depends on everyone’s cooperation in the use of water, prevention of spills, and avoidance of washing chemicals “down the drain.”
The nature of our business requires the use of over 750 differ-
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[IMAGE: Photo of Phil DePasquale with concrete tank]
Phil DePasquale shows size of reinforced concrete tank that will be used as a sewage pumping station for one of plant’s buildings.
Medicine Search Started
[IMAGE: Photo showing three scientists studying a molecule model]
Studying a molecule prepared for pharmaceutical use are from left Drs. Costa Courduvelis, Zaven Ariyan, Coordinator of program, and Terry O’Brien.
by Dr. Zaven Ariyan
A Pharmaceutical Research Program has been initiated to study and screen chemicals for possible medical use. Assisted in the search by outside pharmacology laboratories, the group is interested in developing chemicals which could be made at the Naugatuck plant.
Five Year Goal
The main aim within the next three to five years is to obtain a drug through clinical work and receive approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market it. Research work is presently centered on antiinflammatory drugs for the treatment of arthritis; cardiovascular antihypertensive drugs for high blood pressure and related disorders; and tranquilizer related drugs.
The Chemical Division R & D group consists of Dr. Zaven S. Ariyan, Coordinator of the Program and two Senior Research Chemists, Dr. Constantine I. Courduvelis and Dr. J. Terence O’Brien.