XVie PISGAH FOREST
Olin news
VOL.XX NO. 4
ANNIVERSARY EDITION, 1974
FOR EMPLOYEES AND PLANTS
IT’S 35 YEARS OF PROGRESS
"One year I think the people at
Olin will be famous for being in bus
iness so long,” wrote one of the
thousands of students who visited
the 35th anniversary open house
last May.
Whereas three and one-half de
cades mean ancient history to one
so young, in many respects it
seems like yesterday to a number
of employees who
were on hand that
September day to
cheer a dream
come true; first
production of cig
arette paper at
Pisgah Forest. Of
that original ca
dre, approximate
ly 75 employees
are today on ac ¬
PRODUCTION STARTS
BACK AFTER STRIKE
Production machinery was started
up Novembers in the Ecusta Paper
and Film division plants after Union
members voted 1,117 to 377 in
favor of ending the six-week strike
which had idled more than 1,800
employees.
Immediately after the Union’s
vote November |^ in favor of the
proposal, pickets were removed
from plant entrances for the first
time since September 30 when the
original contract expired. Announce
ment of the strike settlement was
made jointly by Paul D. Seagle,
President of Local 1971 of the
United Paperworkers International
Union, and Arthur Beddoe, Direct-
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tive status in Ecusta Paper, Film or
bi-divisional operations. They are
about equally divided between
hourly and salaried personnel.
Diamond-studied service pins are
being awarded this year in unpreci-
dented numbers. Numerous pictures
in these pages show presentations
of awards to those whose anniver
saries were in July, August and
September; others to appear in the
next issue. Why so many from the
summer months on is because that's
when the plant was nearing comple
tion, needing people to get it going.
Four persons still.active had been
at work at Pisgah Forest a year or
more before the heavy hiring be-
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35th YEAR ONLY THE BEGINNING
It’s middle age spread this 35th
anniversary year for Olin’s Pisgah
Forest plant site — a healthy bursting
at the seams by both manufacturing
plants and a new phase of the pollu
tion abatement program.
They are made possible by the
more than $15,000,000 allocated
by Olin’s board of directors to
capital projects here this year.
The three major projects are:
Ecusta Paper Division — A two-
pronged improvement in Ecusta’s
procurement of its basic raw mat
erial, flax. On heels of completion of
the new flax processing plant at
Watertown, S. Dak., the Ecusta
plant begins a sizable expansion of
flax pulping, flax refining and flax
paper manufacturing capacity.
(Page 19)
Film Division — New facilities
to permit marketing of the division’s
Cabbage for a sandwich said Mary
Brooks, left, to her Endless Belt
associate, Shelby Raines, when
asked what she would like from the
Raines’ garden. Cabbage for an army
is what she got, 11-1/4 pounds
worth.
new reinforced cellophane products.
This is a family of unique, Olin-
developed structured films. (Page13)
Bi-Divisional — Secondary waste
treatment facilities, Phase V of
Olin’s comprehensive pollution
abatement plan for Pisgah Forest.
This will raise the cost of pollution
abatement hereto over $18,000,000.
(Page 7)
With this introduction, these
investments in the future of the
Olin installations at Pisgah Forest
are described in this Olin News
Anniversary Edition. Undertaken
in the face of a runaway inflation
and an uncertain economic stability
the world over, and despite the
hazards of unpredictable shortages,
they are evidence of Olin manage
ment’s belief that the first 35 is
only the beginning.
Ed.