Masonry Magazine January 1972 Page. 36
Suppliers to Merge
W.S. Merriman, chairman of Marion Brick Corp., Marion, Ohio, and Robert W. Fort, president of Medusa Portland Cement Co., Cleveland, announced that their companies have agreed in principal to the acquisition of Marion Brick by Medusa for approximately 200,000 shares of Medusa common stock, having a market value of approximately $7,200,000 or $20 per Marion share. Marion operates six brick plants in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana with a total production capacity of 170,000,000 brick annually.
The proposed merger is subject to approval by the stockholders of Marion Brick Corp. The boards of directors of both companies have approved the transaction.
Safety Poses Problems for Asbestos Industry
The Emergency Standard for Exposure to Asbestos Dust, published in December by the U.S. Department of Labor, will produce great changes in the asbestos industry, according to Arthur R. Adams, president of Personal Environment Systems, Glendale, Calif.
The new, stricter standards, invoked under emergency provisions of the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, apply to all employees who are exposed to asbestos, whether it be in the areas of mining, refining, fabricating, construction or manufacturing. The emergency standard requires employers to be aware of the amount of asbestos concentration in which their employees must work and, depending on that amount, take certain specified protective measures.
While the new emergency standard is in force for six months, government officials have hinted that it will probably be a permanent part of the law, and that asbestos is just the first of many industries which will come under tougher safety and health regulations in the coming months.
Masonry Conference Proceedings Published
The proceedings of the second International Brick Masonry Conference held in Stoke-on-Trent, England in April, 1970 have been published in bound form and should be of special interest to architects, structural engineers, contractors and others interested in the design of load-bearing and reinforced brickwork structures.
The 375-page text, in English with English, French and German abstracts, has been edited to crisp form while still keeping the individual styles of the different authors. The 61 papers presented are illustrated with 280 line drawings and 163 halftones. The value of these papers is enhanced by 155 tables of data and 310 references.
Copies are available at $45 each plus $2 for postage and packing from the publisher, SIBMAC Publications Officer, British Ceramic Research Association, Queens Rd., Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7LQ, England.
Subcontractors Meet
Leaders of all segments of the building construction industry will address the first national convention of the American Subcontractors Association scheduled for February 12-16 at the Princess Hotel in Bermuda, it was announced by Robert Palazzo, president.
Forum discussions will consider these pertinent subjects: federal safety regulations, systems building, legal aspects of construction contracts, the federal bond statute, credit, motivating and directing your staff, insurance, using computers in your business, equal employment regulations, and the subcontract form of AIA.
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People & Events...
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Trenton (N.J.) regional office of the Zonolite Eastern Division. Robert P. Turner has been appointed business manager for the Darex line of cement and concrete products at the divisional headquarters in Cambridge.
These days all you hear of are unheard of prices.
Kenneth A. Ferguson has moved up from corporate vice president to president of Geo. H. Bullard Co., Inc., Westboro, Mass. Henry J. Knott, Inc. has moved to new and larger quarters at 2850 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md. 21218, phone 889-1845. Edwin G. Albertson has been named product manager of Sales and Service Metal Trades, W. P. Keith Co., Inc., Pico Rivera, Calif. Roy P. Trowbridge, engineering standards director for the General Motors corporate engineering staff, has been reelected president of the American National Standards Institute.
Hill Heads Up TCMA
Jack Hill of Houston is the newly elected president of the Texas Concrete Masonry Association. Also elected were Harold McDonald, Houston, vice president, and H.V. Moss, Austin, secretary-treasurer.
New SCPI Director
The new director of SCPI, Region 12 is Henry Bollman, filling the post vacated by Don Wakefield who recently moved to Salt Lake City. Bollman has been associated with the brick industry for many years and was director of this same SCPI region nearly 20 years ago.
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