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It was announced on Monday that the H. Powell Chemical Co. will bein construction of a new 10,000 square foot plant here immediately. A meeting was held in the Town Clerk's office to ver the final plans with all interested parties present. Poell Chemical came to Bowmanville in 1952, conductng their erations in the former hospital building. Their new plant will built in the Glenbrook industrial area, facing on Highway 401, on two acres of land. Negotiations for the plant began last autumn when M.L. Mason, President of Powell Chemical, contacted former Industrial Commissioner here, Kenneth N. Morris, to act as consultant. Mr. Morris is now with Schofield-Aker real estate firm and recommended th Glenbrook area. He also called in John Reznik, President of Reznik Construction of Courtice whose wide experience in plant construction in the Oshawa area fitted him for meeting the needs of the Powell Chemical Company. Photo shows, from left to right, Town Clerk Jack Reid and Industrial Committee l Chairman Glenholme Hughes who were active in working out details of the project, Mr. Morris, Powell Co. President M.L. t Mason and Contractor John Reznik. Seated is G.G. Powell, , 'President of the firm from 1944-54 and currently a member of . the Powell board of directors. This plant is the first of several expected to take advantage of the excellent location and e facilities of the new Glenbrook Industrial area. Powell Chemical Plant in Final Stages of Construction June 3, 1962 This is the first plant to be erected in Bowmanville's new Industrial Parkjust off Highway 401 at the south end of town. It is expected before year's end that at least two and possibly more plants will be constructed to take advantage of the low Nursery Modernizes its Storage, Shipping Area With Building Program September 15, 1955 A very ambitious building program which will give the Brookdale - Kingsway Nurseries completely modern storage and shipping facilities covering 20,000 square feet of ground- floor space in about a year's time, has been started by Norman J. Scott, owner of the firm. As part of his plans for expansion and moderni- zation, Mr. Scott also recently purchased a $12,000 machine which is a combination tractor - sprayer - balling machine and cultivator. The first huge Quon- set-type building in con- nection with the build- ing program is almost completed on Brookdale - Kingsway property at the corner of the Base Line and Duke St. Two more buildings almost as large will be con- structed next year to put the storage, packing and shipping facilities at the nursery on a highly-efficient assemb- ly-line basis. Building Almost Ready The first building is now receiving the finish- ings touches and will be ready for use in a short time. It is a huge building about as large as a skating rink; 150 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 37 feet from the foundation to the top of the roof. The special arched rafters, or ribs, used in this Quonset- type structure were pre- fabricated in Manitoba of British Columbia fir and then shipped to Bowmanville. The ribs were spaced two feet apart and sheeted with 11/4 inch lumber. A layer of aluminum foil was then applied as a mois- ture barrier to protect the nursery products which will be stored and shipped from this build- ing. Two layers of 40-pound asphalt roofing were then applied in such a way that there are no exposed nails either on the inside or outside of the building. The job was completed by the application of two coats of asphalt emul- sion to seal the joints and a covering of alumi- num sheeting to reflect the heat. When the building program is completed next year a second similar Structure also 150 feet long and 60 feet wide, but not quite so high, will be constructed immediately to the north of the present building. Completing the three building unit wil be another 150 foot building running east and west along the Base Line, and forming the bottom part of the "L" which the three build- ings will make. Build Loading Platform On the west side of the building now being finished a spur line from the Canadian National Railways runs into the Brookdale - Kinsway property. A loading platform 150 feet long and 8 feet wide will be built on the west side of the structure so that the nursery products can be loaded directly onto railway cars by con- veyor belt. When all three buildings are finished the present building will be used almost entirely for an assembly-line packing and shipping operation. Bins holding the vast number, of different varieties of flowers, shrubs and evergreens raised by the nursery will be placed around the walls. Each of these bins will carry a series of code numbers and letters designating the species, variety and color of each of the nursery products. The packers will be able to go directly to the bin holding the required nursery product without losing time searching for what they want. Each packer will have a work table, and a chute will lead up to the second floor from this table. The boxes, waxed paper and other packing materials will be sent down these chutes to the packer, and after the order has been filled for shipment a conveyor belt will carry it to the loading paltform, and another conveyor belt will take it directly into the railway car. Will Study Methods Before setting upthe acreage cost and the prestige value of being close to the highway for advertising purposes. All services have been completed by the town including new sewers and a new bridge over the Base Line Road. John Riznek of Courtice is the contractor on this Powell Chemical plant project. assembly line packing operation, Mr. Scott, Andy Lunnemann and Holward Bickle will visit a nursery in Shenan- doah, Iowa, where such an operation has been set up in a large nursery to study all the details involved. "We are try- ing to bring agriculture and the nursery busi- ness the same efficient assembly-line methods that work so well in industry," Mr. Scott declared. "When these three buildings are finished they will in- crease the efficiency of our operations tremend- ously." The Brookdale - Kingsway owner point- ed out that the purpose of the new assembly- line type of storage and shipping operation is not designed to increase efficiency by allowing the same amount - or more - work to be performed by fewer employees. -He also stated that the stream- lined operation will take a lot of the hard manual labour or "bull-work" out of the shipping tasks. Added to the present large grading and stor- age facilities at the nursery, the three new buildings will give a total of 20,000 square feet of space for the storage, grading, pack- ing and shipping of the hundred of Brookdale - Kingsway nursery pro- ducts. The business done by the nursery has increased every year, and is still increasing, Mr. Scott stated. At the height of the last season the nursery was ship- ping a carload of nur- sery products every day plus several large refri- gerated highway trans- ports. These products go to practically every state in the United States and many coun- tries of the world. On file at the nursery now are orders from Nassau in the Bahamas and Palestine, as well as from European coun- tries. Mails 212,000 Catalogues Mr. Scott mailed 212,000 small catalogues and 40,000 larger color catalogues this year, and only a few days ago received a special cata- logue for roses only containing 32 pages in color. These rose cata- logues were printed in France, he said the only country which can print the new color processes involved in producing them. Mr. Scott is also keeping up-to-date mechanical equipment. He recently purchased a new Minneapolis -, Moline machine which performs four distinct functions - those of a tractor, spraying machine, balling machine and cultivator. This huge tractor, which is so high there is a 6 foot clearance under the axles, is according to Mr. Scott, the first to be used on any nursery in Canada. It can spray 12 feet high or four inches from the ground and does 10 rows at a time. Special attachments in front of the rear wheels cultivate four rows at the same time that 10 rows are being sprayed. Balling Machine Attachment The same machine also has attachments Since ience a portant. S.J. Murdoch Bowmanville Mall ' Bowrnanvile Cleaners the mostpopular Dry Cleaners in Bowmanville. • Fast, Reliable Service and that allow it to be used as a balling machine. A round cutting unit is lowered over the shrub and the blades cut out the ground around it like a large cookie cutter. Another blade under- cuts the shrub so that when the unit is raised the shrub is lifted out of the ground with a "ball" of earth around it. A burlap sack is then slipped over the shrub which is ready for shipment in its own earth. The machine, complete with attach- ments, cost $12,000. Mr. Scott's constant endeavour to keep up with the newest develop- ments in nursery tech- niques and to increase efficiency, as demon- strated by his new building program and 1883, ind courtesy o purchase of.the newest types of equipment, are responsible for making Brookdale - Kingsway Nurseries one of the largest and best known in North America. Advertisers in 1901 included the Grand Central, The People's Store, Stott and Jury, T.N. Rickard, M.D. Williams, Couch, John- ston and Cryderman, Rice and Co., W.H. Dustan, Tolis. Heal Bros., N.C. Rundle, Alex Luttrell, John Mackay, J. Higgin- botham and Son, Caw- ker and Tait, John McMurtry, Fred. R. Foley, D. Davis, The Mason Co., W.T. Allen, G.P. 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