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PHILlf SWAIN, IQITOt JULY 19 S 3 * ESTABLISHED IBB2 PWWW Industry Swings to Modernization FOR ECONOMY'S SAKE View of Pipe bay In largo aaatom ulllity plant, showing pipes insulated with KdM"Fe8therwelghl''85% Magnesia. MAGNESIA Save heat and you save money. Thousands of plants depend upon "Featherweight" 85% Magnesia to do just that. And no wonderl "Featherweight" needs no introduction to thousands of users, many of whom first experienced its unusual qualities be fore this century began. It is a superb insulation, low in thermal conductivity and not only effective on healed surfaces with temperatures up to 600 F., but when used in combination with K&M Hy-Temp Insulation, it is efficient up to 1900* F. This combination of double layers permits staggering oil joints and eliminating heat loss through open joints when expansion occurs. Keep this heat-saving, money-saving in sulation in mind for applications in your company's plants. It will serve you well-- always! For detailed information on "Featherweight" 85% Mognesia, see your local K&M distributor, who is an experi enced applicator, or write directly to us. Nature made atbeilot.,. Keasbey & Mattison has made It serve mankind since 187} KEASBEY & MATTISON COMPANY AMBLER PENNSYLVANIA In Canodoi ATIAI ASSCSTOS COMPANY, LTD, MONTREAL, TORONTO, W1MNJHO. ood VANCOUVER POWER JULY 1933 Industry hires executives and department heads to build up net profits--the elusive margin between what the business lakes in and what it pays out. The job of sales and advertising executives is to increase the intake. Production men and power engineers are hired to cut down the outgo. The two groups are partners in the profit-making team. Some top executives underrate the power engineer's importance aa a profit maker. They say, "Why worry shout power costs when they amount to only 3 or 4 percent of total sales?" They forget that if 4 cents out of every sales dollar now goes for pofrer services, chopping off just one cent will increase the net profits of the average business by 10% or more. Figure this out yourself for your own. company. But what about this onc-cent-in-four saving in powerservice costs? is it obtainable? In our opinion, after visiting many hundreds of plants, intelligent modernization of all power services could easily save 25 percent in the average establishment Take steam, for example: Modern boiler equipment not only raises efficiency substantially, but also often yields even bigger savings by making it possible to burn bargainpriced fuel. Du! cheaper Btu and better boiler efficiency are only the beginning: other big savings con be made in steam transmission and application. Modernizing transmission cuts costly waste through Inadequate insulation and defec tive valves, fittings and traps. And there is often the chance to plug big steam wastes at the process or consuming ends Parallel opportunities are at hand in the generation and application of electricity, mechanical power, refrigera tion, heating, air conditioning and compressed air. This year marks industry's great swing from new con struction to modernization. As new construction gradu ally slows down from the high defense-effort peok, modern isation must pick up much of the slack. That will keep the nation's wheels rolling at a good clip, and offer thou sands of plants the opportunity to cut operating costs by replacing or revamping obsolete equipment end hookups. Such recent renovation obstacles as rationing and equip ment shortages have largely disappeared. Nothing more is needed except progressive power engineering, working hand-in-hand with top management to build profits by cutting waste. With this national situation in mind, Power has been working for months building up the Modern Plant Hand book issue. Designed for year-round reference use, this will appear in mid-September as on extra issue. Tho regu lar September issue of Power will bring you the usual complete monthly editorial service. A top feature of tho Modern Plant Handbook will be the 16-page Renovation Roundup, listing hundreds of practical woys to save dollars in the modernization of all the power services--their generation, transmission end application. Other Handbook oections include: Modern Plant Sur vey--tabulated data on over 500 new steam and hydro units; Directory of Power Field Manufacturers--more than 1000 manufacturers under 600 product listings; The Show Case--new products reported during the year. The aim is to give Power readers e convenient "mod ernization package," to help them (1) organize the facts about their own plant, their present and future load con ditions and (2) see just where and how intelligent modern ization saves operating dollars. >owti JULY 1953 ADS UT--. 49