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Show - frrrMtVr - THE yUTAH f it r Wednesday, September 29, 1976 supplement to the National Enterprise Utala Bolfldmg Inndhiiisibry B.B. Smith, named as executive vice president. Metal Mining Division, Kennecott Copper. Robert N. Pratt succeeds Smith as general manager, Utah Copper Division. Kennecott Makes New Appointments Metal Mining Division in New York in 1969 where he was in charge of environmental affairs. In 1972 he was named president of Kennecott Sales Corp. Robert N. Pratt Thursday was named general manager of the Utah Copper Division of Kennecott Copper Corp. He will succeed B. B. Smith who has been appointed executive vice president of the Metal Mining Division of Kennecott in New York City. The appointments were announced last week in Salt Lake by H. H. Kremer , President of the Metal Mining Division. Most recently operations manager of the Utah Copper division, Pratt joined the company in June 1949. He filled a number of smelter and industrial engineering posts. He was named assistant to the president of the Optimistic About Recovery Under his supervision, Pratt said very little will change at the Utah Copper Division. Ever hopeful copper prices will improve, he said the copper industry usually lags the general economy by about six months. Im optimistic, We should soon he said. 3 get back to the levels when housing, construction and other growth continued on page 4b pre-197- After trying for three years to attract businesses in the electronics, pharmaceutical and printing industries, Utahs Division of Industrial Development has modified its course. It is concentrating on attracting what Dale Carpenter, director of Industrial Promotion, calls value-adde- d secondary industry With mining and natural resource development companies entering the state, we want to be sure companies are here to manufacture, service and repair the machinery and capital investments these companies We havent done use. Carpenter says. that in the past. It took us 100 years, for instance, to attract a business to use the copper Kennecott produces, Carpenter adds. Launching Ad Campaign To ensure these secondary industries are aware of Utahs advantages, de-boni- ng Ad Campaigns Boast Energy Development secondary value-adde- d industry related to energy or natural resource development. Utah's rich deposits in coal, uranium and geothermal energy are attracting businesses in energy development. Carpenter is hoping magazine advertisments will draw supportive industries along with the primary developers. As developers invest in Utahs labor force to mine its mountains, they may also invest in machinery made by' Utah manufacturers and in the servicers who maintain that equipment. The returns on investment are much higher when the dollar invested in Utah is also circulated here, Carpenter explains. The dollar multiplies much faster in that case. Carpenters department has been boasting of the State's Power, Natural Resources e and Energy in advertisements appearing in issues of Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, Wall Street Journal and other publications aimed directly at decision-makers in those industries. In addition. Carpenter has mailed personal letters to those same people, offering a report, funded by his office, analyzing the advantages of locating in Utah, near the developers these businesses serve. See Related Story Page 3b full-pag- Task Force Recommendation The recent emphasis on secondary industries comes from Carpenters involvement in the Governors Blue Ribbon Task Force on Energy. That committee recently recommended the legislature authorize increased appropriations to the Industrial Development Division to attract light and Meat Controversy Impacts Utah Firm The U.S. Department of Agriculture will reverse its hold on the mechanical of red meat within the month, predicts Ross Taylor, vice president of The Beehive Machinery. firm Utah based Sandy, manufactures about 95 percent of the worlds deboning equipment. While the USDAs hold has hurt Beehive sales, Taylor says foreign sales are picking up domestic slack Base and revenues should still top last years sales. Beehives equipment is used by 29 foreign countries, and until the USDA ban, by 44 domestic meat processors. We did have some machinery on order, but meat processors were naturally hesitant to buy our deboning machines while the government forbade their use. Machines we havent been able to sell in the U.S. have since been sold to foreign buyers, he said. Economical Recovery To combat the USDA ban, Beehive has launched a massive public relations effort to teach American consumers the values of mechanically processed meat. Mechanical butchering, he explained, enables meat processors to get an additional 15 pounds of beef from Continued on page 3b Besides valuable minerals and coal deposited in Utahs mountains, the state has other natural resources namely its d population. Utahs population stays in school longer than that of any other state. We have the population in the country. We need businesses that can use that resource, Carpenter says. To attract this type of employer. Carpenters department is funding a study to report on and Utah's benefits to industries. He plans to promote e the results of that study in more advertisements aimed at employers of d people. in to exploit Utahs growing order And, population and burgeoning construction industry, Carpenters office is funding another study to analyze Utahs advantages as the location for businesses in the building components industry. Results of this report would also be used in future advertisements. During the Depression, Utah probably suffered more than any other state, Carpenter says. We were a colonial state, being mined by large developers whose capital investments were manufactured and serviced in other states. When the market fell, and these developers left Utah, we had no secondary industries to fall back on, he explains. Utahs officials have learned from that hard lesson, and since 1965, when the Industrial Development Division was formed, have been actively recruiting small companies in a variety of industries. Governor Calvin Rampton has expressed the concern that a number of small companies be recruited, rather than a few large ones. He seems to believe, as do many large corporations, that diversification means highly-educate- best-educat- ed high-scien- ce high-technolo- full-pag- highly-educate- security.. gy |