The story of Pittsburgh: Diversified products

Diversified products (Vol. 1, nr. 13)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 183162365X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241129

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Diversified products

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 13

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: [ca. 80] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Armstrong cork company

Collection:: Economics Books

In 1907 the Company entered an entirely new field, the manufacture of linoleum, and built a plant at Lancaster, Pa., which has been added to repeatedly until now it is the largest factory of its kind in the country. Since then three additional plants, at Oakdale, Pa., New Brunswick, N. J., and Algeciras, Spain, and many new prod- ucts have been added until now the Company sells to almost every industry—cork stoppers of all descriptions, cork gaskets and floats for automobiles and other machines, seamless cork cots for spinning rolls in textile mills, cork compositions for innersoling and box toes in shoes, linoleum of all kinds, cork carpets, felt base floor coverings, flooring tile of pure cork and cork composition, corkboard for the insulation of cold storage rooms, refrigerators, and the walls and roofs of residences and other buildings, cork covering for refrigerated pipe lines, heat insulation for steam pipes, boilers, furnaces, ovens, kilns, stills, ete., cork brick for floors in dairy barns and hog houses, cork machinery isola- tion for deadening noise and vibration of moving machinery, and a host of other articles made of natural or composition cork, such as pen holder tips, insoles, yacht fenders, handles, washers, discs, etc. Because of the varied character and use of these products, their sale is handled through three main sales divisions— Cork Division, Linoleum Division and Insulation Division. with offices in all of the principal cities. At the present time, the Armstrong Cork Company owns, directly or through subsidiaries, seven factories in the United States, in addition to sixteen plants in the cork producing countries for the collection and preparation of raw material. Two of these foreign plants produce finished materials as well. The Company is a Pennsylvania corporation and employs approximately 5.000 persons. A. M. BYERS COMPANY Established in 1864 as Graff, Byers & Co., incorporated in 1893 as A. M. Byers & Co., and in 1903 under its present name, the A. M. Byers Company makes and sells approxi-

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