KLAMATH PLYWOOD CORP.
Klamath Falls
February 26, 1965: "An $800,000 capital improvement program will be completed at Klamath Plywood Corporation in a few months.
The extensive modernization plan began more than a year ago when a log haul, barker and block hauling system was constructed at a cost of about $150,000.
Phase two of the revamping which includes addition of new equipment and buildings and alterations in plant layout commenced in March, 1964, when work began on a 15,000 square foot building addition. This structure now houses a 16-section Moore gas fired veneer dryer. Changes were also made in plant layout. Cost of this portion of the plan was about $250,000.
In December, the last phase work began. This will include a complete new green end consisting of a Coe automatic charger and lathe, an automatic tipple and tray system, two veneer chippers and green veneer off-bearing tables. A new veneer chipper is also being installed.
Veneer chips are presently being sold to Weyerhaeuser Company.
Cost of this phase, scheduled for completion sometime in May, is approximately $350,000.
Brosterhous Construction Company was awarded the new build and alteration contracts. Klamath Iron Works is presently fabricating the tipple and tray system. The electrical and lighting contracts were awarded to East Side Electric. Many other local business firms and construction personnel furnished materials and labor during the modernization program.
Andy Honzel, general manager of the corporation, said completion of the third phase will mark almost total renovation of the mill facilities that began operations in 1957 as Klamath Hardwoods, Inc.
Today, approximately 165 men are employed at Klamath Plywood Corporation with an annual payroll of about $1.2 million." (Herald and News)
The extensive modernization plan began more than a year ago when a log haul, barker and block hauling system was constructed at a cost of about $150,000.
Phase two of the revamping which includes addition of new equipment and buildings and alterations in plant layout commenced in March, 1964, when work began on a 15,000 square foot building addition. This structure now houses a 16-section Moore gas fired veneer dryer. Changes were also made in plant layout. Cost of this portion of the plan was about $250,000.
In December, the last phase work began. This will include a complete new green end consisting of a Coe automatic charger and lathe, an automatic tipple and tray system, two veneer chippers and green veneer off-bearing tables. A new veneer chipper is also being installed.
Veneer chips are presently being sold to Weyerhaeuser Company.
Cost of this phase, scheduled for completion sometime in May, is approximately $350,000.
Brosterhous Construction Company was awarded the new build and alteration contracts. Klamath Iron Works is presently fabricating the tipple and tray system. The electrical and lighting contracts were awarded to East Side Electric. Many other local business firms and construction personnel furnished materials and labor during the modernization program.
Andy Honzel, general manager of the corporation, said completion of the third phase will mark almost total renovation of the mill facilities that began operations in 1957 as Klamath Hardwoods, Inc.
Today, approximately 165 men are employed at Klamath Plywood Corporation with an annual payroll of about $1.2 million." (Herald and News)
March 28, 1965: "The Klamath Plywood Corporation has purchased a 72 x 110-inch Coe Automatic Veneer Lathe, as part of the plant improvement project.
Most of the project's expense is for the construction of a new green end, with $115,000 going for the purchase of the lathe. The latter machinery, weighing 80,000 pounds, is equipped with an automatic charger and will produce three times more veneer than the combined total of the eight-foot and four-foot lathes it replaces.
The new lathe was ordered about eight months ago from the Coe Manufacturing Company, Painsville, Ohio, and added that delivery was delayed because last year the firm had received a preponderance of similar orders from new plywood operators in the southern states.
The new lathe arrived here by railroad last week and was transferred from a flat car to a Mitchell Brothers Trucking Company flatbed trailer, preparatory to moving it into the plywood plant. The monstrous piece of machinery was inched onto the trailer by means of rollers and a winch." (Herald and News)
Most of the project's expense is for the construction of a new green end, with $115,000 going for the purchase of the lathe. The latter machinery, weighing 80,000 pounds, is equipped with an automatic charger and will produce three times more veneer than the combined total of the eight-foot and four-foot lathes it replaces.
The new lathe was ordered about eight months ago from the Coe Manufacturing Company, Painsville, Ohio, and added that delivery was delayed because last year the firm had received a preponderance of similar orders from new plywood operators in the southern states.
The new lathe arrived here by railroad last week and was transferred from a flat car to a Mitchell Brothers Trucking Company flatbed trailer, preparatory to moving it into the plywood plant. The monstrous piece of machinery was inched onto the trailer by means of rollers and a winch." (Herald and News)