OCR Text |
Show KENNECOTT TO BUILD TWO NEW WAREHOUSES Two warehouses costing a total of more than $1 million will be constructed this year at Kennecott Copper Corporation operations west of Magna. The two structures will be part of a $13 million reinvestment program pro-gram during 1962. They will provide pro-vide more efficiency of warehousing warehous-ing and a reduction in costs. Construction began this week on a warehouse at the Arthur ore concentrator. con-centrator. It will serve both Arthur and Magna concentrators, the power pow-er station and ore haulage departments. depart-ments. A similar project will be started early next month on a ware house at the smelter for the refinery re-finery and smelter. Tolboe and Harlin Construction Co. of Salt Lake City holds the general contract con-tract and IS subcontractors are involved. Both structures will be of steel with concrete foundations. Engineering Engi-neering work was done by Kennecott' Kenne-cott' Western Mining Divisions. Norman Stanley is the project engineer. en-gineer. Work will be completed about next December I, and maximum max-imum work force of 60 men will be used by the contractor. Advantages of the new facilities will be these: cost reduction through improved control of inventories, simplified reorder procedures, less loading costs and time, faster accounting ac-counting of materials, improved security methods, easy location of materials, a consistency of the work force and assurances that material are used when they are taken out. Automatic replenishment procedure pro-cedure will use a system of markers mark-ers registered by accounting machine ma-chine that will produce reorder information. The amelter, refinery and mine now use this practice. The Arthur plant will adopt it about April I J and the Magna concentrator con-centrator in May. Fork lifts will be used to handle materials at the new warehouses. They permit handling several unit ; in one loading operation. ' a . ":. |