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Interfab services custom steel market By DONNA KELL Herald Special Intertab Steel on Armstrong Avenue caters to the custom steel market In Georgetown all over On tario and across the globe We do fabrication of tanks con veyors structures anything In cor bon steel stainless steel aluminum We sell to people like chemical plants and mines and automobile manufacturers said owner Wayne Lister Ten years ago Mr Lister was working for a steel plant as a General Manager Ten years before that he got into the steel business and dreamed of opening his own steel fabrication plant Right now we re building another feet on back of the present building We re doing alright Wayne Lister The company must be doing alright The expansion is costing about Mr Lister hastens to Interfab has designed and formed some useful machines including a seven foot fan for General Motors and a computer controlled carousel for in town Last year they made conveyor belts for Ford and are presently making bell buoys for the Department of Mines and Services The largest piece of metal work produced by the company barely made It out the back door It was a beat exchanger for the automotive business over IS feet in diameter said Mr Lister Interfab has a diversity of pro ducts We do quite a lot of silencers and soundproofing equipment We do a lot of pollution control equip ment all over Ontario Last week we shipped one to the States said Mr Lister The company also had a tank order from a Canadian company for the Middle East state Oman If someone came in off the street and ordered one of Interfab large metal tanks they would wait slight over a month to receive it Orders are put in for the custom materia and responded to by the factory staff of 13 panics Quite a few tanks now are made of but unless you really had an erosion problem you use Usually you would gotostalnleassteel he said Metals are used for strength pur poses added Mr Lister Mr Listers welders work hard In the factory and cutters can be seen sheering the slabs of steel soon to be custom creations There is no smoking in he office of his Georgetown factory but Mr Lister chuckles and adds customers who have a big order can smoke Welder Gord Thompson of Inter fsb Steel makes spark fly at be prepares the sleel that Is formed Into BUSINESS OUTLOOK St Wednesday AprUltltM Panel Economy Forms bridges the gap Don Constant Fortamix firm 20 years in town By DONNA KM Herald Special feed company opened Us doors for wholesale in Georgetown years ago Today it is a corporate member of the mega corporation BASF As we were operating as a private company our largest sup plier of vitamins was BASF In order to integrate that the bun word of business today BASF offered to purchase the company said For tamlx manager Don Constant BASF is familiar to most people as the massproducer of cassettes both audio and video Their expansion In to the Georgetown market has allow ed to grow got one big warehouse all the way through the back It pur chasing the neighboring building gave us more than twice the space said Mr Constant produces premlx nutrient base Tor livestock and poultry The base Is sent to be further processed Our customer is the feed mill said Mr Constant The Is a highly rated vitamin and mineral com pi ex said Mr Constant Bill Anderson sold o BASF in 1382 The owners sold look out their shores and profits and retired said Mr Constant but traces of the early owner BUI Anderson ore found In the packag ng of products they are still labelled Today Fortamix office is non smoking smoking is restricted to the lunchroom and the receptionist answers the phone BASF Fortamix Otherwise changes are In he area of expansion The two buildings on Todd Road were joined by construction and the staff now numbers employees with For retaining much of the staff nutritional experts the early days BASF treated us well said Don Constant is linked to BASF mlnals in Montreal via the computer on Don Constant desk The BASF head office is scheduled soon for relocation to Toronto said Mr Cons tant in addition being part of he BASF chain has a small warehouse In Quebec a half hour drive from Montreal a division of BASF Intermediate and Fine Chemicals is kept abreast of BASF progress by communiques from the head office Though were small company they really make us feel part of the corporation said Mr Constant Don Constant started with For tamix in 1979 as a controller He By CHERYL MOODER Herald Staff A bridge scans across a cavern where below a raging river and bubbles There Is a chance the plate girders manufactured in the Economy Forms plant In Georgetown were used to make the bridge Economy Forms has been in operation since IBM when W A Jen nings created a plant in Des Moines Iowa which has grown to a 9 A acre plant The operation moved north In 1964 when a Georgetown plant began be ing built In 1966 offices were moved from Toronto to Join with the Halton Hills plant Economy Forms manufactures special forms for projects such as the Dome Stadium in Toronto With special forms they are used only for a specific project and cannot be reused said vicepresident Bemie Savard The plant also manufactures dard forms which can be leased for the duration of a project and then returned to Georgetown Lightweight standard forma can be moved by hand and are adaptable to any dimensions one would want them to meet Mr Savard said Heavy duly forms must be crane handled When the forms ore returned to the plant they are cleaned oiled and prepared for the next time the vice- president said All equipment is wire brushed to clean the surface and sent back to be repainted Right now Economy Forms Is busy preparing equipment which came back in at Christmas time forspring All forms are made from scratch the vice president explained Economy Forms buys flat steel which is put on a sheer and cut to the required length The steel is then formed Into whatever shape Is needed and all the connecting boles punched into it Last year approximately million pounds or steel was shipped from the square foot plant Economy Forms which has operations worldwide sends forms around he globe Red Radium forms which are ad justable to any radius up to feet have found their way on projects such as he power plant In Sault Marie and the Toronto Dominion Centre power towers In downtown Toronto There Is also a junior red radius form which Is adjustable to a radius of up to 10 feet The radius are a new line to the plant developed approximately two years ago Mr Savard said Other projects the company has worked on are last year it produced forma for the Canadian embassy in Belnjlng made the segmented forms for bridges in he States and the Credit River Bridge in Streetsvllle Vice president Bemle Savard the workings at Economy Forms Corporation Forms from the Georgetown plant can be found on buildings such as be Olympic Stadium In Montreal Am phitheatre Stadium In British Col and the Bruce Pickering and Darlington Ontario Hydro plant We nave done so many things Mr Savard said We have con tributed to a lot of work right across Canada In the past year the company in stalled an auto CAD system be vice president said Economy Forms It hooked Into company com puters across North America The past year two additional engineers were added and the com psny Is presently training more Construction forecasts for 1968 are good Mr Savard said There will be plenty of work on bridges and sewage plants Economy Forms has put bids In to supply the forms for a James Bay Project in Quebec and a power plant In Charmara India The forecast is very good for he coming year Mr said The company manufactures all the parts in the Georgetown plant and hen ships the equipment to warehouses A warehouse in Alia distributes the needed products to Western Canada The Georgetown building was built big enough to handle business for the next three to five yean Mr Savard said When working to full capacity Economy Forms keeps 50 full time employees busy Currently there are 31 workers keeping the assembly lines humming There are five in the engineering department Is Just a nice company Mr Savard said We have good people who all work together as a earn to achieve our goals and objectives 4th Year Of Service To You Georgetown THE APPLE sunroof QUALITY WORK ON Tonneau Covers Winter Fronts Windshield Replacements Windshield Repairs all Automotive Glass Requirements Sunroofs Mobile Service at no extra cost Van Accessories APPLE Auto Class p An all Canadian Coi OUR SERVICE WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE Limited 354QuelphSIUnll27 Georgetown Ontario