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Owens-Illinois BEHLIN, NEW JERSEY musam av and for m rcoau or THE BERLIN PLANT ONE or THE FAMILY KAYLONIZER Volume 1 July 1956 Number 3 NEO SERINIS, "POPPY" SCURTI RETIRE Retired at the end of last month were two men familiar to most Plant 95 Onlzers They were NEO 3ERINM and DOMINIC "P0??i" bL'UK'U. NEO SERINIS, who had been employed with the Company for 13 years, was born in Caesarla, Turkey in IS89 and attended high school and Anatolia college in that country. Coming to the United States in 1919, at the age of twenty, he completed his ed ucation at Drexel Institute in Phila delphia, where he majored in chemistry. Recently he attended his graduation class's 4Oth year reunion at that school. DOMINIC SCURTI NEO SERINIS DOMINIC "POPPY" SCURTI, a nine-year employ ee in the Berlin Plant, was born in a town near Naples, Italy in 1891. Arriving in this country,then he lived in Philadelphia and Jersey City before moving to W. Berlin. Se began work here in 19^7 in the Maintnanee Department, was transferred to Per sonnel as office Janitor, and his last Job was in the Production Department. The father of three children, POPPY lives on Pine Avenue in West Berlin, His son, JOS SCURTI, works la the Mold Repair Department. POPPY will long be remembered for his many fine games of boccl and morra on the Diamond Derby Days. NEO came to the Berlin Plant of OwensIllinois in 19^3 and became plant chem ist, a position he was to hold until his retirement last*month. In his research capacity he played a major part in the development of the SID (Simultaneous Indurating and Drying) process currently used in the production of Kaylo- which speeded up the operation and proved more economical, than the previous method. The father of four children, Neo lives at 5 South Cedar Avenue in Berlin. In the future he will be assisting in the General Research Department on a consultation basis. NO-ACCIDENT MARK SET The people of Owens-Illinois Plant 95 have worked over six months without a lost-time accident, comprising a total of 201,041 accident free man-hours. Sow that he has retired, he will occupy his time with aardenirur which has bean The last lost-time accident was Decern- b^- 7. 10*5 . SKELETONS IN KAYLO PRODUCTS Did you know that ovary cubic foot of Kayla contains millions and millions of skalatons? It's true, for one of the materials that goes into the production of Kaylo prod ucts is diatonaceous silica which is made up of the tiny skeletons of single celled plants called diatoms. Diatoms, which are types of algae that live in the water, cannot be seen in dividually with the unaided eye, but in colonies they appear as jelly-like globs either floating free or attached to other plants. Through a microscope the thousands of different diatom types can be seen. Some are shaped like discs, others have eliptical, triangular or rectangular shapes, while still others are thread-like in appearance. The cell walls of these plants have un usual designs on them, arranged in or nate patterns and resembling jewels. They are some of the most beautiful crea tures of the mioroseoplc world* The unique thing about the diatom is that it lives in a glass house. The living diatom is composed of live matter inside two wells held together by a band or "girdle," so that it looks much like a pillbox. The cell walla are made of silica which the plant extracts from the water and incorporates initself. The walls have a glassy, transparent quality and the plant, in reality, lives behind "windows" of a. sort. Some diatom sizes and designs and anatomy diagram. conditions were right for diatoms. And to^, because of the many volcanoes, the oceans of the Miocene era were full of soluable silicas. The wealth of silica permitted these algae to multiply very quickly* As huge numbers of these plants repro duced and died, their skeletons sank to the bottom of the sea, gradually build ing up thick deposits. In following ages, the crust of the earth buckled and the ocean floor was lifted into the air, becoming mountain ranges and laying bare the layers of diatoms, now white and chalky in appear ance. But it vaa not until a relatively few years ago, in 1890, that anyone real ized the value of these deposits. It wee discovered that this diatomaceous earth was an excellent insulating ma terial and mining operations were be gun. Since, the demand for this mater ial has grown aa new uses for it are discovered. At certain times in the past ^hen ctfe&itiona were favorable for growth and re production, huge numbers of them existed in the oceans. One such period was the Miocene age, millions of year before man made his appearance on the scene. Besides its ordinary insulating proper ties, diatonaceous silica is used in Kaylo products because it can withstand very high temperatures without melting and thus is valuable as insulation in areas where great heat is generated. At that time, food, temperature and light