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1 ooPDNi cnonex4 BREVARD PLAIMT SIP1I) ■Me u i MT 0" FOTOFAX ONEX Vol. 6, No. 4 E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company, Inc., Brevard, N. C. December, 1973 NEW CHIEF — SHAPIRO Irving S. Shapiro was named Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive succeed ing Charles B. McCoy who will retire on December 31. Shapiro, age 57, was elected to the Fi nance Committee effective immediately and designated Chairman of the Exe cutive Committee effective January 1, 1974. The office of Vice Chairman, held by Shapiro, will not be filled. Edward R. Kane, age 55, who was elected President and chief operating officer last July 16, will team with Mr. Shapiro in leading the Company. Mr. McCoy, age 64, who has led the Com pany for the past 6 years, will become Chairman of the Finance Committee effective January 1 succeeding Crawford Greenewalt who will remain a member of that committee. Mr. Greenewalt was President from 1948 to 1962. IRVING S. SHAPIRO EDWARD R. KANE CHARLES B. McCOY O IN THIS ISSUE WHAT’S HAPPENING 2 HOSPITAL PLAN IMPROVED 2 NEW R & D BUILDING 3 EMPLOYEE PROMOTIONS 3 NEW DERA BOARD 4 MESSAGE FROM MG’R 4 (g[fPl3) AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER THE ENERGY CRISIS . . . What is the effect on the Brevard Plant? LOWER OFFICE TEMPERATURES - Jim Corn, Senior Power Operator, is spending time monitoring office temperatures with a precision psychrometer. He uses read ings to regulate the air fiow-temperature balance so all offices meet a lower tem perature standard adopted by the Bre vard Plant. LESS LIGHTING - Mike Whitmire, Con trol Mechanic, is busy removing every other fiuorescent light from service. This \ is being done in offices, hails, the cafeter- \ \ ^ ja conference rooms, operating areas, and locker rooms. In addition, all in candescent iights in H & V Rooms, Energy Controi Rooms, Equipment Rooms, etc., are being reduced to 100 watts. The ob- jective is to reduce lighting to a minimum acceptabe levei at a point where personnel can still carry out normal work. CONVERSION TO HEAVIER FUEL OIL I Leon Howard, Power Area Foreman i points to the newly constructed half mil lion galion storage tank originaily built to hold an additional supply of No. 2 Fuel Oil to heat steam boilers. When we be came aware that No. 2 oil, used for home heating and as diesei fuel, would be in short suppiy, we hastily converted the new tank system for lower grade No. 6 Fuel Oil. Many manhours of work were spent to install a special pump ing and heating system to warm up the thick residue type No. 6 oil to around 200° F so it wiii flow to boilers. t- ’3 BUILDUP OF CARBON IN STEAM BOIL ERS - Dan Sentelle, Senior Power Opera tor, inspects the carbon buildup on an oil atomizing gun removed from a steam boiier. With previous fuels (No. 2 Fuel Oil or natural gas), virtually no carboni zation occurred. But with No. 6 oii, guns must be removed and cleaned every week with a special solvent. In addition, soot buiidup in boiier furnaces must be biown out stacks twice per week with high pressure steam. LIMITED RAW MATERIAL SUPPLIES-Bob Hammett, CP Service Operator, climbs a ladder to check the liquid levei in one of our glycol tanks. Due to the current pinch '’HH Slycol and other chemicals derived t%|¥Cul from petroieum oil are in iimited suppiy. Since Du Pont does not manufacture gly- coi, we rely on Dow Chemical to supply it. The Company has a certain allotment from Dow. Brevard vies with severai other Du- Pont piants, who also use glycol, for a share of this allotment. We’re trying to help our supply situation by using refined, recovered glycol from our Belle Works in W. Va. For conservation, we’re taking a ciose look at methods of reducing the amount of giycoi consumption.
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