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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
May 20, 1965     Shelton Mason County Journal
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_, ................. , ..................... eupplemen of :YO73R .B~p,c~ "ty te~ ," r pa¢ eet Born of necessity and nurtllred through ye,-.rs of problems, insula- tion board has come of age, Simp- ::,)n Timber Company's In:relation lloaz':i Plant, built in 1947, has bad five new additions constructed and now has a capacity of 100 million feet a year. Th'~ plant, managed by Woodrow B. Johnson. operates twenty-four lmurs a d'.~y seven days a weetc with four shifts. Two-hundred forty men with their twenty-five m~pervisors run the plant, turning out some one hundred variations of acoustical tile, decking, sheath- ing and wall board. AS SIMPSON has become ~, leader in the insulation board field, it has run up an impressive list of "firsts" in the industry, accord- ing Lo Johnson. Tile plant was first to use hol- low-core drills for rnaking acous- tical hole:~ in tile, thus getting away from fuzzy-looking holes made by the twist drill. Simp~'~on was first to make wood fiber fi,~;sured tile, and other comp- anies now are making it via Simp- son patented processes. Bevel-coating of tile, originated by Simpson, now is standard in the industry. Chemical treatment of tile so it won't bm'n wa:~ another signifi- cant Simp,mn first. I TI-IE NEED 1,'OR more complete utilization of fore'~t products, a re- quirement of the E~he}ton Coopera- tive Sustained Yield UniL, prompt- ed Simpson people to stay up nights figmring out what to do with the various bits and pieces of wood left over from sagcmill and plywood plants. The job of finding uses for Lhese "left-overs" was assigned by Simp- son directors to Carl J. Macke, then a Company vice president. Scouring the country for ideas, Macke came up with the recom- mendation that building board be made by a mechanical pulping pro- eess, Then, while engineers eonstrimt- ed a plant for the making of it, teehnick-ns wre;d.led with the technique nf making the board. Tile challenge was to find a meth- od of chewing the wood down to its finest fibres and then rebuihl- ing these fibres into a coherent board. ONE WEEK AFTER the buihl- ing was completed, its men and l(hm v,'hich is then whisked to a central storage area and then stored in fir, hemlock or mixed bins. This storage feeds the insula- !tion Board PlanL and some surplus is sold. : A daily ration of 100 tons of 'chips gels its start: in the huge digesters, where it is subjected to v, zachinery were turning out an live steam. This softens the wood approved board, but there were so fibres can be separated mechan- long and complicated struggles iically with a minimum of break- forms it into con|intlOllS sheets. Steam heal completes the re- moval of water from the sheets, and they enter the "dry" section of the plant for tile cutting, paint- ing and malty other operations which turn out the finished prod- ucts. Five or six box cars m~e loaded daily with the output of the In- relation Board Plant, and an in- ventory of ten million board feet with fewer or less-eonsl)ieuous holes loses some of its acoustical value. The design firm of Walter Dot'- win Teague Associates of Seattle is busy creating new tile styles. When the firm designs eight or ten new tiles, the plant hand- makes three or four thousand samples of each. A market survey is carried out to find out which might be the leading designs, and regulations in eonhibuting WOODY with tile since its start' perience in Included Gordon Craig/ tendent; ance ford, Swift, Rice, plant Broman, Ken Edwards, Latham, : : ?/i:i!i il¸ i::¸ ii,¸¸¸¸¸¸¸ PULP SLURRY gets started on its way to becoming continu- ¢us sheets of fibreboard at the Insulating B,oard Plant. Woody Johnson is division manager. HAND-MADE SAMPLE celllr tiles for market research an important part of the Ir lating Board Plant's work, McCann, product developnl director at Bellevue, uses silk-screen process to turn samples at I BP. many in the products industry..... :! (i:¸ The "Wet End" at Simpson's insulatiing board plani in Shellon to lhe for ouislanding service and leadership IT HAS BEEN OUR PLEASURE AND PRIVILEGE TO SERVE WHO COMPRISE THE SIMPSON PERSONNEL IN COVERED ROLLS ON THE "WET END" MACHINE. WE TO MANY MORE YEARS IN THE FUTURE TO THE SAME SHIP. from all of us at |he ,} RUBBER Box 37, Federal Way, Washington , i'