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m LI&15601 r'twiifiifr // } * Wr i uAHuytewi MMiMTi LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION. INC >u MIW YOWK 17, N. V. OCKDCO TWO ITS <V PROOOCTS# X. H. Oaetaohl Xisittr, Balsa Dmlepunt Division, lbs Consolidated Mining and Smelting Coppery of Canada Limited ---------- .............................. -,...a, ' " -------- - ---- ---- dmnk l.H. Tbs title of iqr talk today la "Cbadboo Dees Ita Om Frodeete*. ladh of you night aay. *So what, don*t wa all?* and you art quit* right, let only do wo of tba load aad tine industries oaa our own prodocta, tat ao doaa ovary industry aad ovary individual la our aodorn civilisation, olthar directly or indl racily, noo the prodocta of our industry, hodsna civilisation, aa wo kman It, ooold not oodat without tha protacta of o-- mlnea. It la to oor discredit that aoat of oa In tha prlaary load aad alas industries havo only limited knowledge of tha varlaty of axisting aad potential oaaa to which our product* ar* or eould bo pot* Zt la this phaa* about which X wish to speak today* Za pairing a sincere effort to exploit tho nao of ita prodocta, Coolnoo la not --lqus la our ladoatry. However, you oay be Interested la knowing bow wa at Comlnco aro attesting to expand tha uaaa of laad and Bine - not nacoaaarily la axotlc ways, hot la our aoroal day-to-day aetlvltlaa of building and maintaining our plaaa, raflaarlaa and ehaadcal plants. Z will motion how wo aro organised to poke greater ueo of our product* and the degrea of success we have attained. X will also tell you aepe of tha direct benefits ws havo received from tho practice of ualag our own petals* Before tolling you about our programs, Z seat giro you oops background Information on our oo^>eny. Merged from a nuwber of pines and a --altar at Trail, British Colimble In 1906, The Consolidated Mining and Smiting Cnnpary of Canada United today has ita major mining operations at Klcfearlay, British Coluwfala with a half doasn aaaller operating ml noo across Canada and In the 0. S. A. The concentrator at Klnberl-- treats $0,000 tons of ora weekly. The eoooentratee are transported to Trail for awaiting end refining Into 1,000 tons of natal each day. Also at Trail are tha aaln chadcal aad fertiliser operation*, producing about 2,000 to per day of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash fertilisers, as well aa other related heavy chemicals, Fertiliser plants ere also located at Kl--erl^ and Calgary, Alberta. A 100 ten per day pig Iron plant la at Klsfeerlay. Close to Trail are sis hydro-electric plant* generating about 650,000 H.F. Of the 7,000 anplcyees, about L,000 ere In the Trail area, 1,500 in Haber1*7, with the reminder In various nines, factories and offloes a ere ad the continent. It was In tba decade following tha war whan strong and eooosesful bids were being nade to take over otr markets by producers of other materials that various people In cur company became aware of tha need for greet-- product promotion. Comlnco management, In 19&, organised a hetil Dee 9 Reeearuh group and a natal Salas Development grwg>. Freeanted at tha 31th annual meeting of the Lead Industries Association, Ine. St. Louis Me* April ID, 1962, I, u ii>i|;.^piiii,p|iiij ...nii mwm^mn.iii.. n.'j n--.u)u1 may <m i II 3545 ------*. H. Outsold -2- ookdco toss ns an ptooocn Those wore --tabllshod to provide service to our cuetoMere and to ultiaate QMn for the purpoa* of proaotlng greater oofiruaptlan ct cur product*. To eoeouraae the ua of load la our own operations, la 15S5 a eootlttee vat set ip called the Lead dee Covdttee, beaded by the Superintendent of our Engineering Development Departaest and eo^oeed of our load burner foraaen, a oaa long dedicated to promoting the uaa of load, and ropreaaatatire* frc* our Design, Operating and Beeeerch Divisions, Stailarly, la the turner of 15?6 a Hoc Oae Cowdttae vat established, again chaired by the Superintendent of our foglnearing Drrelopaeat Departaent, and vlth repraeentetlTas fron our Deelgn, Operating and Raesaroh HiTitIona. We that had etvsral groups of Individuals charged vlth the responsibility of promoting the ute of our product# to both our own people within the organisation and to cuatcnero and others outalda the oo^ary, It la bow obrlous the Jobe vere alallar. The aaae lnforaatlon vat needed to convince thoee charged vlth building and Maintaining our ovn factorlea to uaa lead and sine at vat needed to sell their counterpart# In other Industries. The lessons vc oould learn fro* experiences In our on plants vould be used to prenote out products to others, Va vara all working for the aaae objective, Hov did ve make out? In the early stages. Interest In using our ovn products was United to those group# who were directly charged vlth tbs assigmsot, however, by 1560 general Irrtereet had bean aroused aacoget tbs Majority of our ^>loyeee. Our internal publicity people vho publish tbs employee nagatlne had bean looking for articles about our product*. Wo arranged for than to receive the literature published ty the L1A and ether Industry aseoclatione. This literature was also sent to key engineers la tbs construction, salntenance and operating divisions. In addition, or field service engineers vere writing up reports describing the Most Interesting uses of lead and mine which they encountered. These reports were used, not only as a basis for our Metal advertising programs, but vers also sent to our aagaslns editors. By 1560 17? of the outset# of the alloys# asgaalno were about eur products. Ten years ago no product use articles tad appeared. Currently this has settled down to about 12% of the contents and tbs editors are holding It at about this level. Our Internal publicity people developed other variations of product publicity. A prise easay contest was held on hov lead and sine vers affecting the dally lives of our M*)lo>*eea. A feature article In our anplnyeo eagailne reported on the Merchandise to be found in the local stores idiloh In see* way or other utilised the products of our plants. This, of oourss, called for the eo-operation of local Merchants and a^>hasimod to than the basic soiree of their lncooe. Currently, s eonteet Is underway whereby each employee has bean given a ssall sheet of sine - s prise Is offered to thoee developing the Moet Interesting uses. In 1560, In s effort to arouse general Interest, a penal dlecuaeloM vaa held in Trail ty senior Barbers of the Sales, Sales Developawnt end Research Divisions who spoke on various sales, sales preaction sad product research subjects. Over liOO supervisors voluntarily attended this evening Meeting and ehoved ty their questions the tremendous Interest they bad In product sales. In harch, 1560 the Load Dae Coseaittee and the Zinc Dee .Cowlttee were consolidated into a single organisation called the Internal Lead line Use CoaKlttee. The supervisor of our hotel Use Research group boo tap Chalman and his assistant became Secret-ary. On the ooaadttee are X, B, Oeutachi -y- ooksico oss its an maxis reprsaantatives of the engineering, production, nsterlal* engineering, publicity and aalaa davslopnsrrt, It has bacon* Increasingly evident to oar field **rrio# engineer* that if w* ar<. to effectively pronoto tha use of cor natal* in ooapetltlon with other notarial*, no require detailed lnfomatton on the aartic* Ufa of oar product* der various actual ua* ooodlticn*. Wa alao nead to know tha criteria need by our on engineers, la chooalac or rejecting our product*, a* wall a* oo*p*tltive product*. With oar plant* stretching tram th* Atlantic to tha Pacific and fro* Montana to the Artie Circle, w* can provide a vida variety of aerrica oondlticaa. Za wa knar that our an ataff of engineer* and tradsenen eaa throve tha aarviealifa of our am product*, particularly la ooaatructloe application#. Wa ?* want to teat now application#. Tha wl deepread geography of oar plant* sad th* divanity of our procaaaaa provldaa ua with a testing ground to eatlaQr th* Boat di aerial rating ram rebar. To record tha reaulta of our application*, naka econcalc atudlaa and aaak oat naw uaea, w* recently appointed *a engineer a* full-tine Secretary of tha Internal Lead-Zinc Os* frimlttaa. A* a nanbar of oar Engineering Division, bo la fanlliix with tha activitla* of oar dealgn engineering staff and is la a position to lnflnsno* deal pi decisions. Ikv as a natter of cxugvsiy policy, oar engineering and n*1 ntaranca departavote endeavour, wherever possible, to u*s oar owa product* or nodlflcatlaoa of than - even though tha cost nay appear higher than for competing natarlala. To further enhance our knowledge of lead and tine, w* are oarioualy planning a najor natal working laboratory. Our research Into tine extrusion, cathodic protection anodes and the anodi ting of tine bav* all resulted tram thla desire to extend tha use* of tine. Tou nay ask *Kaa this aetiviy resulted In greater use of your products In your wn operations?* I will atteqpt to mover this ty briefly outlining eons of the nore evident and successful applications. The affective use of tlno dust paint* In reducing nalntenanoe cost* In oar own factories result gg In the aucccsfful recoaaendatioo by our Hgineerlrg Division to tha British Colunbla Department of Highways to use tine rich paint cn tha Cdtafcia Alvar Bridge at Trail. Many problsaa ware SDeountared In thla application and these are helping ua in preacting future application*. Tha lead clad flo* tram our lead sintering nachlnea replaced a plywood flue. One hundred ton* of lead were uaed. Zinc anode* applied to our thickeners reduce nalivterance coats and th* use of tine anodes cn the steel dock at oar Pacific Coast Tarnlnal* rubaldlary 1* giving full protection again*t corrosion. Building* at our various nines, for the nost part, had bean ahaethad la asbestos cenent. Our noat recent installation on Tancouver Island haa utilised prepainted galvanised steel, while our pig iron plants, originally designed In asbestos canent, have been built In asbestos coated galvanised sheet. Oalvanlted aiding baa been installed on our Zinc Melting Plant extension, our Antlnoty Plant, our Zinc Roaster Building and In tha fertiliser storage warehouse of a subsidiary corpery In Tmtwood, Washington. Tha new nonerail systen for charging our blast furnace* ha* been Installed In galvanised steel. The "Coainco 60" fertiliser applicator ntflo extensive use of tine die castings. Lead copings have been installed on the alnberley Iron plant and on the Wari laid caustic-chlorine building. Lead flashings are serving the new Trull sinter plant. An *tqp*rtBtal lead roof haa been applied to the lead burner shop. Leed stair traads, lead cap on tha LOO ft. tine plant stack and lead ends to cocoa netting m id iw im v w .m rnmmmvm^mm^mmsmt i.. nm.i UHIII,IIU mmmmmm i^ani|i.i|puiWB1--`"WWW^IIIP L1415604 ACin sdsUUHiiimikttBiaM X. H Oautechl caaaco uses S3 cm psoodcts re all la m( tbwi an la addition to the lead sulphuric meld t<wtn, launder*, pipes, agitator linings, bench coverlids, tank linings, east load valves, l*ad baas palnta and literally hundreds of othar applications that bars bean used for a reparation, Vaan va decided to move our Hontreel offloaa Into a building about to ba oooetroeted, our management, who an tne nal fares behind this movement to utilixe our cam Materials, Instructs! us to work with tha Interior designers to Incorporate our own materials In tha new office, Ve had very little influence on tha building as a whola. In tha nonal count of construction, 61,000 feat of galvanised conduit wan used, along with 1,500 tana of galvanised floor decking, 560 tons of galvanised shoe}, pipe, and ducts, and 15 tons of lead caulking, ti tens of lead In porcelain anamal, 6 tons of load in anti-eibntion pads, and 1350 gallons of rad lead paint, as wall as various othar miscellaneous uses. In our own two floon, bmravar, for interior deooratlva and functional applications, va concentrated on materials using our own metals, Va approached muy of you present bare this afternoon for euggastiena and I now want to thank you for the interest you displayed. In the lighting fixtures we substituted for the normal aluminum grid about two tans of sloe alleys (nickel silver, yellow brass). Extruded tine chapes are being used In angle trim for the light-leg, wall fabric joint eovsrs, in a standing screen and la door stops. Door kickplatea are being made from tine allcya and rolled sine sheet. Boiled sine sheet is also used for the wall base and for boot trays, Unc die castings are being used for door levers, cabinet pulls, floor olectrleml outlets end In the reflector rime of the pot lights. Zinc and tine alleys are balt% used for decorative wall panels. In addition, of oouree, galvanised flanges, tracks and hangers were used In the lighting, the ooswrtial o-etUngj electrical wall boxes, aleetrlc cable and conduit and maty other conventional applications, lead is being used in porcelain enamel trim for walls, me axtrusinns for tha glass block wall around the mailing service rooms, mad in the valla for sound attenuation. The two most ooetly and at the sane time most interesting applications are the sine alloys for the lighting fixtures and the lead sheet in tha walls, from both of these applications, va have had, even at this date, positive results. The firm manufacturing the limiting fixtures had used only alualnua until thsy mads our flxtrcms. When we suggested sine alloys, they were enthusiastic sines they were looking for other colours to eatlfy the various colour schemes now demanded by architects. They recently seat S travelling promotional display across Canada and to tha 0,1, In which they shoved only the tine alloys they had used in our offices. They have reported enthusiastic Interest among architects and are confident orders In these metals will be forthcoming. Regarding the lead walls, there are several beneficial results. a ecnjmotion with the Lit and ERP staffs, we were able to find a type of wall that oould ba adapted to Include lead. The problems of Installing lead sheet were not difficult and the resulting wall was more easily handled than a similar wall without lead. ' Since ve did not have the necessary tlaa to aaka a complete study of all design features before the a plana had to be frosen, we are still uncertain as to the precise extend of sound attenuation ve will achieve, but we are confidant it will be appreciable and that this type of wall construction has great coamerrlal potential. ^wWiynj^aiJi.eu.M i i.atnweam.m-.ueeaiw^.m >lt 1 .".M ", mm n . ....... . [-- -- wm'w m w m m m m nmun * m LIA15605 m ^ -*-- - :------ frlf'ii--tlfcl'Ti'i~^*1trili'Ttirrrtii ---*- X. * Owtsebl -5- OOtCWOO CSSS ITS (Ml fKBOCTS Incidently, w* required 38 tons of lead for 82,000 oq, ft* of partitions* What has boon accomplished? Thto Is difficult to answer. As * sulphuric odd produosr, Ccwineo has boon ruing It* on lood tram too tiao the first odd plants were built in 1926, Vo aro not using osar own astala for tbo first tins, Sbworor. we believe sstsral things tews boon ocoonpliahod by this lntenslv* intomal proaotlca* (1) Our aeployoM at all lsvels boro boon nodo owaro of tbo lsqwtance of oar narfcete and aro identifying their jobs with oar success in tbo oorkot plooo. It boo arogood new onthoalisa* (2) Vo have solvod oaoo of oar usintorunco prcW-- sad re duced oaintoaoneo ooota through tbo ooo of oar own ootolo. (3) Uo aro now gatboring data that la invaluable in praooting tha oao of oar Mtala to otbora. Wo eon opook with auro knowlodgo of tbo advantages of ear notolo* Such o nrcjgrajMO tokoa too active rapport of every ovlcgres* It eorsvrt oacoood without tbo inapiraticn and covictieo of top aanagoMBt* Thla calls for noro than lip aorvlcs report - it calls far tbs kind of rapport that provider foods to carry oat rack a progress bocaoso nonagr and staff aro necessary* Colors wo ouraolvoo aro proparod to oao tbo products of oar Minos and factories, than who also can bo oxpoctod to do sot Vo hovo oil looghod ot tbo joke about tbo restaurant owner who hung vp on "out to lunch* sign. Tot wo ouraolvoo have been guilty of tbo sans folly wbea wo uoo too inferior sutoriala of others whoa wo could uoo our own products to advantage. Ho have little to lose and wuob Vo gain. Vo mrt not lose ear norfeots kg default - we are playing this gone for knaps*