Masonry Magazine July 1974 Page. 24
Engineer Addresses Portland Meeting
Approximately 200 members of the design profession and regional building officials and inspectors attended the recent luncheon hosted by the Oregon Masonry Guild in Portland. Albert W. Isberner, P.E., research engineer with the Portland Cement Association, was featured speaker and presented a technical report on his recent studies of all-weather masonry construction. Using 35-mm slides taken on his tour of Canada in mid-winter and later through the southern states during the summer months, Isberner outlined the results of his field research. Several questions came from the audience relating to his comments on the excessive use of cement-to-lime ratio that he found in his tour. "Too often specification writers consider only the psi rating of the mortar and overlook the bonding and working qualities required of a satisfactory masonry construction wall," Isberner said. Ray Wimer, executive director of the Oregon Masonry Guild and MCAA Northwest field representative, acted as moderator.
Sauereisen Marks 75th Anniversary
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Pittsburgh specialty cements firm of Sauereisen Cements Co. Beginning in 1899, C. Fred Sauereisen founded the firm which today is headed by his three sons, Will P., Phil F. and Ferd J.
Sauereisen is a world leader in its field with sales to every continent of over 60 specialty compounds for assembling-sealing, corrosion-proofing, electrical insulating, and refractory lining and grouting, with applications ranging from linings for industrial chimneys to insulation of electrical appliances.
Sauereisen's product diversity grew from a single, original product, Insa-Lute Adhesive Cement No. 1, an electrical insulating and assembly cement still produced today. It was No. I which was used in the porcelain insulators which Fred Sauereisen first supplied to George Westinghouse in 1906. Through his association with men such as Westinghouse and John Bosh, Sauereisen developed his unique insight for the critical cement needs which automobiles, the electric light and radio were going to demand this at a time when such knowledge was yet to be accumulated and organized.
Today Sauereisen Cements has grown considerably from its humble beginnings through two plants in the Sharpsburg area of Pittsburgh to its present offices and plant covering a 3½ acre site in the Regional Industrial Development Corporation Industrial Park in suburban Pittsburgh.
Prime-Mover Builds In Muscatine
Start of construction of a new administrative and production facility for the Prime-Mover Co. has been announced at Muscatine, Iowa by the parent company, HON Industries. The first phase of the project will consist of a one-story, 140,000 square foot manufacturing plant with a connected 11,000 square foot office. The initial construction is part of a comprehensive plan that will provide for substantial expansion on the 69-acre site.
Prime-Mover is an old-line manufacturer of material handling equipment for construction and industry, beginning 24 years ago with the Prime-Mover powered concrete buggy and following shortly thereafter with powered brick buggies. In recent years the company has expanded into the industrial market with a full line of electric forklift and pallet trucks.
Prime-Mover material handling equipment is marketed through a network of 195 dealers throughout the United States and Canada. The present Prime-Mover plant in Muscatine will be converted to the manufacture of office products by the HON Company division of HON Industries.
Third Down and Millimetres to Go
Bill Young, first vice president of the Canadian Masonry Contractors Association, recently was appointed chairman of a new CMCA committee on metrication. Among his tasks is to keep members informed of the developments of the changeover to metric measurement and how they will affect the masonry industry. With tongue in cheek, here are a few examples of what the construction industry as well as everyone else may have to face:
* It hit me like 907 kilograms of brick.
* Peter Piper picked 8.81 litres of pickled peppers.
* A miss is as good as 1.609 kilometres.
* Give him 2.54 centimetres and he'll take 1.609 kilometres.
* Hell's 2.023.5 square metres.
* Take it with a decigram of salt.
* Missed by 1.609 country kilometres.
* Third down and millimetres to go.