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-