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JS" E W S (f| l e t t e r No. 448, September 30, 1963 TITANIUM OPENS NEW TECHNICAL SERVICE LABORATORIES Titanium Pigment Corporation opened its new Technical Service Laboratories at Hightstown, New Jersey, on September 17- About two hundred Titanox customers from the Middle Atlantic States toured the new facilities. The Technical Service Laboratories consist of a one-story reception and administrative wing, and a two-story laboratory building, designed to provide approximately 42,000 square feet of space and 34separate laboratories. These laboratories are fully equipped for specialized work on the application of titanium pigments in paint, ceramics, plastics, rubber, paper and other industrial products. The new laboratories are adjacent to the Company's Hightstown Laboratories which were opened in September of last year. A new ten-acre Paint Exposure Test Station, situated about a quarter of a mile east of the laboratory buildings, provides about three running miles of test fence. Test panels will be moved from the Company's station at Sayville, Long Island, New York. W. A. Kampfer is manager of the new consolidated facilities which are staffed with T.P.C. technical personnel formerly located at 99 Hudson Street, New York and at Sayville. MULLER JOINS TITANIUM PIGMENT CORPORATION Oscar P. Muller has been appointed assistant to the general sales manager of Titanium Pigment Corporation. He has been assistant manager trade sales for the Company's paint products since 1955* Mr. Muller joined the Company in 194-5 as a paint research chemist in the Brooklyn Research Laboratories and became head of the oil and resin research department in 1950. A year later he was trans ferred to the Philadelphia Branch as production supervisor of the oil and resin department. Mr. Muller was graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in chemical engineering. BATES TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR 0NC0R PIGMENTS Ray P. Bates has been appointed technical representative in the Company's Oncor pigment sales department. He will make his headquarters at the Hightstown Laboratories. - over 0000-NLI-000024765 p U B L i C RELATION'S DEPARTMENT, 111 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 6 N.Y. 2- - Since joining the Company in 1937 as a paint chemist at the Brooklyn Research Laboratories, Mr. Bates has specialized in metal protective paints. In 1948 he became an assistant to the head of pigment service section. In 1955 be was transferred to the pigment and coatings department as an associate department head. Mr. Bates received his B.S. degree in chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. DOEHLER APPOINTS MCGARIGAL AT BATAVIA John J. McGarigal, Jr., has been named general superintendent at Doehler-Jarvis Division's Batavia plant. He was first employed by Doehler in 1951 in the engineering department at Batavia. In 1957 he moved to Toledo Plant No. 2 as plant engineer and three years later became chief engineer there. He was transferred to Metal Castings Doehler Limited, Worcester, England as general works manager in 1961. Mr. McGarigal received his degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. TALBOT IN NEW POST AT PHILADELPHIA H. W. Talbot, Jr., has been named manager, pigments and chemicals division, of the Philadelphia Branch. He succeeds Walter Morris who has retired after 39 years of Company service. Mr. Talbot joined the Company in 1949 as a sales trainee at the Brooklyn Research Laboratories and was assigned to the sales staff of the Pittsburgh Branch later that year. He was transferred to the sales department at Chicago in 1956 and to the Philadelphia Branch in 1962 as assistant sales manager. He received his degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University. MARTINO APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OP STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL Joseph A. Martino, Company president, has been appointed chairman of New York State's thirty-two member State Manpower Advisory Council. OWENS NAMED TO CITY BOARD Thomas P. Owens, Company treasurer, has been appointed to serve as a member of the New York City Advisory Board of Public Welfare for a one year term to expire June 30, 1964. MINING ENGINEERS ELECT COLE PRESIDENT Sandford S. Cole, assistant manager of research at Titanium Division's technical department has been elected president for 1964 of the Society of Mining Engineers of AIME. Dr. Cole will take office next February in New York during AIME's annual meeting. 0000-NLI-000024766