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.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
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RUBBER
Box 37, Federal Way, Washington
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