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Show Sunday, March J, 1971 THE KERALD, Provo, Utah-P- age 5A Moines in Provo Pittsburgh-De- s Earns Nuclear W Stamp Award A significant honor during the past year has come to the Provo Moines plant of Pittsburgh-De- s Steel Company the awarding of the Nuclear "N" Stamp by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. w fj i This stamp is a symbol of the Provo plant's ability to perform certain types of nuclear con- tainment fabrication. Mlr 0li "1W Ik"' Under authority of this stamp, work continues on s major n a project at tl plant dollar project to construct two nuclear containment n M multi-millio- units for Pacific Gas and Electric Company at the latter's Diablo Canyon, California power plant site. These units started through the Provo shop more than a year ago and will continue in force well through ly71 and 1972. The future nuclear power containment liners should play a large part in the Provo plant's future operations, according to Richard J. deJong, general manager. . NEW WIDE FLANGE BEAM rolling facilities at Geneva introduced a new product line for the plant this past year. Of the IS plants operated by PDM. the Provo plant is eighth in size, but ships a greater tonnage of fabricated materials than any other. Last year the tonnage was 17,000. The new structural steel shapes give additional competitive muscle to the Utah steelmakers. New Wide Flange Mill at Geneva Works Gives Plant Another Competitive Product Geneva Works wide flange introduced. The latest to be in added is "piling", an adaptation mill, which was put record time, has lived up to of an "H" beam, used for conin producing struction foundations, retaining expectations quality wide flange beams in L. walls and shoring. six months of operation. One of the first uses for piling With the highly successful rolled at Geneva will be on the start-up- , additional sizes and Virgin River section of the new located just to the product lines within the mill's route range have been continually southwest of St. George, Utah. Western Piling and Sheet Corporation of Salt Lake City has been contracted for this phase of the Virgin River project. Wide flange beams rolled at Geneva, ranging from 6 to 16 inches wide with flanges up to 8 inches, have been well ac- cepted by customers throughout the intermountain west. Began in 1947 The Provo plant had its when in 1947 beginning Morrison-Knudsen Company purchased a corner of land from the railroad and erected a However, the product line has quonset building in order to run into the nemesis of the west fabricate the penstock in Provo coast market area for Geneva . . Two years later Kej a Canyon. as . Japanese producers Tank and Supply Company of effective in marketing wide Casper, Wyo., purchased the flange as their other products. and installed new property Foreign steel competing with Under that equipment. every Geneva Works product the plant produced a ownership line on the west coast is a very number of 55,000 gallon oil real fact of life for the Errors storage tanks for Standard Oil Zero team at Geneva. Company, and also built water storage tanks for Orem and j) I! J :i1 lI V'i v V :x I t I I r v SIZE OF HUGE TANK SECTIONS fabricated Moines at the Provo plant of Pittsburgh-De- s Steel Company is seen in contrast to the worker shown left of the sections. The Provo plant during the past year won the coveted ... Nuclear "N" Stamp from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, certifying it as capable of performing certain types of nuclear container fabrication. Springville. In 1952 the original Casper, Wyo., fabricating shop was dismantled and shipped to Provo to be used as a maintenance shop. The shop was expanded and the company produced many storage tanks for companies throughout the west. field-erectio- n ' f .:' ft Hammond Iron In 1953 Hammond Iron Works purchased the Casper and Provo plants and Provo became the headquarters of Hammond Iron '' - . Works-Wester- n .. - ' ... HA '"' j J "' J The Division. concrete block office building was built that year, arm the plant saw further expansion and the addition of new machines in 1954, 1955 and 1959. Hammond Iron Works and Moines Steel Pittsburgh-De- s Company merged in 1959 and business volume continued to increase. In 1963 PDM signed a contract to build a 30,00Oeat stadium for Brigham Young University. Moines in the Provo plant of Pittsburgh-De- s PRECISION WELDING necessary for huge Steel Company. approximately tanks subject to great stresses is performed of a million dollan was spent for improvements and personnel, a number of portable work, which has played a large tanks, elevated water storage expansions at the plant, and two office trailers have been added part in last year's production, tanks, grandstands, pressure new railroad spurs were in- - to the office the plant continues to fabricate vessels, and a number of other stalled. In addition to the nuclear flat bottom water and oil storage special projects. J Uses Geneva Steel furnace No. 3 taken out of service in late summer, 1969 for Provo plant uses steel The rebuilding. It was blown-i- n during April, 1970, for many more at UJS. Steel's Geneva produced lifeof years productive Works almost exclusively. The plant employs 160 people in its operation. NEEDS During the past year the employment at the Provo before a.d will continue to be of Geneva Works, operation, including shop and of. The true Errors Zero spirit done in the future. The unique office, has increased by some 20 feature about this particular doing it right the first time was people, primarily due to the reline is that is has been the best reflected by the many different more complex nature of the coordinated, planned and groups required to complete the work involved. In order to acPictured ore the Standard constructed reline in the history massive job. commodate the influx of office In 1 Finn 11111.- m 1- i i mmmmmmmmimm- - - REFLECTION OF Utah Valley's ironrodudng might is Geneva Works' three blast furnaces lined up with picturesque Mt. Timpanogos. The tower to the left is that of 1954 one-thi- SEEUS Records Set in Blast Furnace Rebuilding When Geneva's big No. 3 blast furnace was taken out of service in late summer, 1969, it had set a new production record of 4,526,231 tons of continuous iron production. This compares with the previous best production run of 3,770,000 tons from the No. 2 method of protecting the brick from the raw materials as they are added in the top of the furnace. The job itself was not unusual as it has been done many times FOR YOUR FARM PETROLEUM Oil "TEAM" which com bines to give you the fast, of service dependable Oil Standard quality furnace. Some 450 to 500 people in precision-lik- e rd teamwork dismantled the furnace to a great extent then rebuilt it. The furnace was returned to service in April, 1970. &LAV- - New Lining . brick lining was The hoisting and equipment were charging reconditioned. A back-drafacility which is 20 feet higher than that previously installed on the No. 2 furnace was installed. Also included in the rebuilding removal the was job replacement and cleaning stove checkers. Blast furnace stoves are brick lined regenerators enclosed in a circular steel shell with a domed top. Usually there are three to each blast furnace. Part of the Interior brickwork forms a checkerwork pattern, thus the name 'checkers'. The function of these stoves is to preheat the air blown into the furnace. in- A new tesaa; Chevron stalled. the most complete line in the West Standard farm petroleum products wide variety of your problems. Besides fuels and lubricants, we stock . . ft Wood Preservatives Solventsand Paint Thinners RoofCoatings Floor Waxes and Oils Disinfectants Rust Preventives and over 1 00 petroleum products for farm use. which improves Proareii RPM Delos Diesel Fuels CHEVRON Heating Oils SHEPHERD 55 EAST 7TH SOUTH, PROVO the 71 Chevron Gasolines Chevron Motor Oil H. 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