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

ARMSTRONG CORK COMPANY The Armstrong Cork Company had its beginning in a small room at the corner of Smithfield Street and Diamond Alley, Pittsburgh, in the year 1860, when Thomas M. Armstrong and John D. Glass purchased the hand-cut cork business of Harry Overington, a former workman of William King of New York City, the first person to manufacture corks in the United States. Mr. Glass died in 1864 and shortly afterward his interest in the business was purchased by William L. Standish and Robert D. Armstrong, a brother of Thomas M. Armstrong. The name cf the firm was then changed to Armstrong, Brother & Company, and the business was moved to a loca- tion on Third Avenue in the rear of the old St. Charles Hotel. Somewhat later the factory was moved to First Avenue where it remained until 1878, when the continued expansion of the business made necessary the purchase of land for a much larger plant in the area bounded by Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth and Railroad Streets and the Allegheny River, the site of the present Pittsburgh factory, warehouse and office build’ ngs. The erection of the new factory was but one step in the expansion of the Ccmpany which has been going on steadily ever since. In 1893 the Lancaster Cork Works at Lancaster, Pa., was purchased to supply more efficiently the trade in in the east; in 1900 a new plant was erected at Beaver Falls, Pa., for the manufacture of corkboard insulation from the waste developed in the making of bottle stoppers and other cork products, and in 1904 a similar factory at Camden, N.J., was purchased from the Nonpareil Cork Manufacturing Company. For many years the Company had secured corkwood. the outer bark of the cork oak tree, from various sources in the cork producing countries. But in 1906 the business had grown to the pcint where it was necessary to build a factory at Seville, Spain, for the preparation of its raw material. This was the forerunner of a large foreign organ- ization which now numbers some sixteen plants in southern France and northern Africa.

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