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May/June, 1979 page nine Piedmont Fabricators, the Company's non~aviation division, appears here to be a shipping operation. It is that, and a lot more. Need fixtures or furniture? Fobricotors can help Mary Williams reaches for the right piece of foam rubber which she’ll upholster for a beauty salon or barber chair. \ Bill Nixon assembles a doughnut display cabinet for one of Fabricators’ major national custo mers. I If you’re building or remodeling and need custom work done, you should get in touch with Piedmont Fabricators. Since service is our Company’s primary product, we don’t always remember to check with the manufacturing division of Piedmont Aviation, Inc. We should. Overlooking this segment of Piedmont’s business supports the competition. It’s very much like encouraging your friends to fly an other airline when we’re serving the same market! Employees and their friends are invited to shop at Piedmont Fabricators. Piedmont personnel can purchase stock and custom-made items at dealer or contractor cost. Piedmont Fabricators produces fixtures and furniture, primarily for beauty and barber shops. But they also do custom work for a variety of clients, including employees. Recent work done for employees has ranged from built-in kitchen cabinets and units for stereo and sound-system components to book cases and tables. The Piedmont Fabricators’ catalogs refer to the merchandise generally as beauty furniture. However, they offer an amazing assortment of products and styles. Chairs, desks, manicure tables, wet booths, styling stations, carrousels, wig bars, chairs and mirrors are produced in styles varying from Mediterranean, French Provincial, and Early American to Spanish, Colorama or cane and wicker. Though it is non-aviation business now, the Company did get into its Fabricators’ opera tion, if indirectly, through some work being done by the Business Aircraft Department in the early 1960s. A number of Piedmont’s busi ness aircraft customers were bringing in planes to be reconfigured for corporate use. These cus tomers had very definite ideas about how they wanted the interiors of their airplanes. Their requests frequently required woodworking capa- (continued on page eleven) George Clement puts the finishing touch on a laminated wall-spash section. General Manager Jim Doub seems comfortable behind one of his newer products. A change in North Carolina law has increased the demand for bars and Piedmont Fabricators has been busy building them. Piedmont’s airplanes share their surname with another product. Vicki Penry checks out one of our other Pacemakers — a hairdryer. Don Barton sprays on the shipping label for equipment going to a Fabricator’s customer in Kentucky. John Blackwell cleans a counter top before it goes to the assembly line.
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