1947

"Beloit Iron Works"

Paper Machines:

** #258 Alton Box Board #4                 216" Cylinder         Illinois

*   #262 Kimberly-Clark                          174" Fourdrinier    Wisconsin

     #263 Kimberly-Clark #1                     174" Fourdrinier    Tennessee

     #264 Kimberly-Clark #2                     174" Fourdrinier    Tennessee

     #266 Kimberly-Clark #3                     246" Fourdrinier    Wisconsin

     #267 Crown Zeilerbach #14              100" Fourdrinier    Washington

     #268 North Carolina #3                      216" Fourdrinier    North Carolina

     #270 New York & Pennsylvania #3 156" Fourdrinier    Pennsylvania        1200 fpm

     #271 Crown Zeilerbach #6                 165" Fourdrinier   Oregon

1200 fpm  

* Highest speed tissue machine to date.

** The "Altonian", world's largest cylinder machine,

installed at Alton, Illinois, to produceliner board at speeds over 500!.

Comments:

Installed tabulating department using I, B. M. equipment.

Foundry physical laboratory started in May.

Transferred weldry to former steel storage building now

occupied by drive floor.

Acquired by purchase the former Simonds-Worden-White

property totaling .791 acres on July 1.

Produced: Three winders, eight reels, seven presses,

four coalers, one steel headvat, eight fourdriniers, thirteen

dryer sections, and nine calenders.

Total production: 31, 371, 280#

Total castings: 25,233,932#

Suction rolls: 106

Drives: 138

Dryers: 732

Pipe rolls average per month: 215

Shipped direct to customer: 6, 832, 250#

Number of employees: 1300

Machine Shop hours: 422,019

The Flambeau Paper Company was purchased by Kansas

City Star Company of Kansas City, Missouri.

Weekly paydays inaugurated on October 1.