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BUSINESS OUTLOOK Wednesday April IMS Page 11 The science of roofing Almost everybody has had pro blems with leaky roofs or walls at one point or another A roof which cant take the bill lards of Canadian winters or the driving rains of spring can lead to major financial Investments by commercial businesses That where Douglas comes in Mr Is the President of Roofing Sciences Group and Thermography His two firms ore highly skilled In of roofing sciences Mr operates his two companies out of a large parcel of land on Slecles Avenue east of Trafalgar Road The native settled in Ha ton Hills because he was born and raised here Mr got Into roofing years ago when he owned a roof con firm He sold that business five years ago and now concentrates his efforts on making sure that a roof and wall do the Job they re supposed Workers can walk along the root with scanners or with the use of helicopter cm the roof from the air Mr is hoping bis businesses will be able to expand within the next few yean But even to start his business In Hornby be had to loan money to the town to pay for three phase hydro to be in stalled in the area Three phase hydro is necessary for most businesses said Mr The Georgetown District High School graduate said be likes to hire local people first but In the past of years bet been disappointed have to go outside Hilton Hills to find the expertise be needs Mr believes the town has to plan to create the right at to attract more Industry to Hills One of the best ways would be to bring water and sewer servicing to the prestige In lanit In wis a moment for employees and managers of TDW Sales and Services Limited April area the Georgetown facility on Armstrong Avenue for the event were from left Carol Williamson tlcnal operation T D Williamson and president of TDW of Georgetown Stephen D William son He raid photo Birthday celebration April 6 for TDW sales and services proud moment for The Georgetown based firm was celebrating 3D years of operation In Canada and luncheon was held to commemorate the event In atten dance were such people as Chair man of the Board of the Interna tlonal operation D Williamson Jr and Stephen D Williamson dent of TDW Soles and Services Limited of Georgetown The company was originally located In Brampton on Highway east of Highway In 1969 the operation was moved to Georgetown An expansion last year added offices and the warehouse was extended said Barry Mills vicepresident and plant manager The firm was started In Tulsa Oklahoma by TD Williamson Sr His grandson moved to the Georgetown operation In 1986 the genera manager The company makes and sells pipeline fittings for hot tapping and pipelines The product enables people to repair leaking valves without shutting the pipelines down explains Mr Mills The product Is used around the world In the United States Australia and some South American countries Some well known Canadian buyers include Dome Petroleum Saskatchewan Power and Pipelines The company moved to Canada when it found that It couldn proper service the Canadian market from the United States In 1972 there was a giant Increase in soles when Interprovlnclal Pipelines had an expansion At that time there were employees work Ing out of the Georgetown location At the moment there are six employees in the shop and seven working the office said Mr Mills Despite the reduction of employees the has continued to grow In 1981 the distributing com pony for TDW was bought out and the name Is now TDW Sales and Ser vices There are sales people in Mon I rea I Edmonton and Georgetown Worldwide the company sales are close to million The firm Is ex Into Singapore with a new sales and manufacturing branch About employees work at the Tulsa Oklahoma plant operation Mr Mills estimates that people work for TDW In total around the Featuring local news since 1866 Herald Special Although The Herald has been printing a weekly newspaper since 1866 the paper Is always changing There ore subtle changes In the paper all the time to Improve It and to reflect community needs said Publisher Don Brandcr As a responsibility to the com The Herald tries to report all aspects of the community news as fairly and objectively as possible There are six departments that work together to produce the newspaper editorial advertising circulation composing press and accounting all overseen by the Publisher Approximately 150 In dividuals work Tor these depart ments including pajrt time carriers and correspondents writers and photographers The Herald Is a free publication circulated to just over 14 homes and for businesses In Georgetown is an effective advertiser Clrcula Is important to advertising and because the paper is free more peo ple will see the ads as The Herald goes to every home In Hills The advertising department at The Herald not only sells space in the classified and retail sections of the paper but as well sells ideas and designs layouts The depart is trained to design good layouts that will produce results In the editorial department there arc two reporters a sports editor and a news editor Each reporter is assigned different beats to cover such as politics town council meetings education police fire and feature stories Each reporter writes an average of five stories a day depending upon the day and the events In the community A certain number of stories arc re quired from each beat reporter and other story ideas are inspired by calls from people within the com munlty and also finding local angles on national stories The news editor Is responsible for whatever goes in the paper The editor assigns stories edits the stories writes editorials headlines and lays out the news section The editorial department takes and develops their own pictures and each staff member works two nights a week as well as taking turns working weekends The composing department puts together the ads from the layouts sent down lays out the pages from the editors dummy copies and typesets everything the headlines and stories The huge page layouts are photographed onto large film and then these negatives are placed In a ptatemakcr which transfers the Images onto an aluminum plate that will be placed on he press Tuesdays the composing depart ment Is under a lot of pressure as they must finish the layouts at a quick rate and complete all of the plates The final stage In the newspaper production takes place when the ore developed and scaled and locked onto the press Ink is transferred onto a press plate by rollers and from the press plate an image Is transferred to a rubberized blanket The image Is transferred onto huge rolls of newsprint which are then cut into sections and It takes the press one hour to print copies of a 16 page section The bulk of the composing and the printing takes place Tuesday night The circulation department takes over and papers arc bundled flyers are Inserted and the newspapers arc counted and delivered to car and a few stores where the paper is made available Another deadline has been met and the paper appears on your doorstep The 13 employees of the two firms are highly skilled In areas or building sciences desip engineer ing and construction and they are in a position to draw on a wide range of expertise and technical support for the resolution of all types of roofing problems Whether its bad walls or roofing companies can tackle the problems The firms range of services In clude roof analysis and mography maintenance and war ranties plans and specifications for new construction remedial roof repairs or replacement roofing supervision and quality control laboratory analysis and field testing aerial Ion and roof failure analysis and providing educational seminars Mr Flshburn has done for some high profile buildings such as the CN convention hotel in Toronto and the Xerox research centre in Other clients Include government buildings school boards hospitals Industrial and commercial building owners insurance agencies manufacturers and engineering and design professionals Mr started the ther mography group in 1972 and he created the separate entity of Roofing Sciences Group Just two years ago We were one of the companies that Introduced thermography to Canada as a building science said Mr Thermography is a destructive method for testing the WALT ELLIOT HALTON NORTH Constituency Office 18C Martin Street Milton Ontario L9T2P9 8781729 Parliament Buildings Queens Park Toronto Ontario M7A1A2 CHRtS BTDEVANTE Tidying Up in Georgetown for 10 Years IH solo day