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to: Cranbury Press, High!stop'll Gazette, Centinal Publishing Co.j Dr. F. Cuthbert (6) Evening News / Plainfield. Courier News POR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Brunswick Daily Home News ........................ " N. Dahl Btmmi The Recorder; South Amboy Citizen Red Bank Register ; Woodbridge Independent Leader HIQ3TST0WN, NEW JERSEY, JULY 31, 1962 - The new Hightstown Laboratories of National Lead Company on Wyckoffs Mills Road have been completed and are now occupied by a research staff of over 150 scientists and technicians. The transfer of the staff from the com pany's Brooklyn Research Laboratories was completed earlier this week. Located on a 250 acre site adjacent to the New Jersey Turn pike, the new facilities provide 87,000 square feet of laboratory, office and service space which will be devoted to research and develop ment in the fields of non-ferrous metals, paints and pigments, lead chemicals, plastics and resins. An official opening ceremony is planned for September. Dr. F. Leicester Cuthbert is the technical director and the assistant technical directors are Walter A. Gloger, Daniel F. Herman, and Hugo J. Ratti. National Lead Company, a leading producer of fabricated non- ferrous metals, chemicals, paints, pigments, alloyB, bearings, die castings, oil well drilling muds, refractories and other products for industries, has 84 plants and mines and 16 research and development laboratories located throughout the country, as well as operations in 13 foreign countries. N12722 0000-NLI-000024749