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Show Page seventeen Water Watch Eimco chief once a stifled engineer "Progress and imagination are essential to any enterprise, and I believe those two qualities are influenced most by the attitudes of management. I'm positive that you can get more mileage out of everybody, from engineers to janitors, with stimulating and open leadership," he says. To that end, Emmerich makes e a point of coming on a regular basis with literally everyone who works for him. Further, he tries to e talk with as many of his people as possible, face-to-fac- one-to-on- although "thats hard sometimes when youre doing business in 10 locations around Lew Emmerich promises to end the protracted labor disputes and work stoppages that have plagued the Eimco plant in years past, ft'e can 7 afford to stop work for six months at a time , he says. Emmerich Lew "double-barrele- d sees a thrill" in approaching the top of the corporate ladder. As the recently-name- d presi- dent of Envirotech Corporations Eimco Process Machinery Division, Emmerich says he is doing what he always needed to do, but is still discovering new goals and "Its a great challenges. reward, receiving the recognition of being appointed to a job like this," he says, smiling, "but its not an end in subtly, looking and talking younger than his 53 years. He talks easily and quietly, hardly gesturing, pausing to gaze out a window and collect his thoughts before answering a tough question. the valley." Still, he makes a point of sitting down with every new technical andor creative person he hires and detailing how he sees the new employee contributing to the companys objectives. Labor problems are puzzling A stifled engineer Labor: The industrialist's mood changes noticeably at was once a "Yes, stifled young engineer," he admits, after detailing how important it is to encourage and motivate his technicians. the mention of the subject... quieter, more strained, but not grim. "Eimco has become practically synonymous with protracted labor disputes and work stoppages in this area. Style: I I'm going to put an end to that. "We are, after all, is going to make the problem somewhat harder to solve. 1 think our problems stem largely from being in the period of transition from a relatively modest family owned business to a giant publicly-hel- d corporation." mention of his heading a successful campaign against union organization at Servo Corp. of America. Miscalculation can kill us Eimco: It's kind of fun wearing a white hat for a change, being a cleaner-uppe- r rather than a polluter. Some of our customers look at us as a necessary evil, however. The toughest part of this job is trying to predict business cycles, government funding trends, and inflation rates... when a contract wont be delivered for two years, an Continued on page 21 the nations largest supplier of water treatment machinery, mining machinery, and air quality control equipment. Eimco PMD employs 1,100 technicians and workers at its Salt Lake City plant. executive describes his new bosss style as "probing, patient, deliber- A fellow Eimco ate and analytical," although he adds Emmerich has not been on board long enough to make a substantial mark on company operations. Nevertheless, the Purdue, UCLA and Harvard graduate has had a hand in installing three new to assist his operation. vice-presiden- IF THE EGYPTIANS HAD KNOWN ABOUT CONCRETE, THEY WOULD HAVE USED IT. long lasting durable no maintenance better resalelower insurance We have 50 years experience in the concrete business. Both the buildings we construct and the materials we sell will last through the ages. Congratulations to LITTLE AMERICA on the completion of their new concrete building M0NR0C ts Emmerich presents himself its lift building moratorium pending construction of a three million gallon reservoir which would be funded by a $500,000 bond issue going before voters July 12. "The town just cannot handle Rich any more building, of the Woodworth, organizer bond issue said. "Even with the voters approval, the construction wouldnt be completed until late next year." Passage of the bond issue would raise water rates five percent. In other bonding news, Manti voters this month approved a $200,000 issue to pay for replacing 8.000 feet of deter-- . iorating pipe from Butny Hill Flats to Hougaard Ford in Manti Canyon. Money from the Cities Water Loan Fund has been requested by Uintah Highlands Water and Sewer Improvement District, which hopes to develop two springs and create a reservoir near Uintah. The proposed $250,700 project would reduce dependency on the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, now its sole supplier of water. summer, personnel at two of Salt Lake Citys three water Served time with the giants resume includes contributions to electronic railroad car identification and automatic data recording systems. hopes to As smaller towns hustle for money and prepare for a dry in the company's business as us ld Santaquin opened its newly constructed 500,000 gallon storage tank last wreek at the north mouth of Santaquin Canyon. The $90,000 reservoir, funded by a Housing and Urban of Development grant $745,000 and local grants totaling $15,000, will harness culinary water from springs. After only a year and a half on the Envirotech payroll, Emmerich is head of Eimco s largest division, a key element less-glamoro- Em- merichs resume includes do." w a con- tinuous production facility and we cant afford to stop work for six months at a time here and there. We've analyzed our labor problems and found no consistent patterns, which itself. Theres still some tough managing and some tough decisions ahead. . .the kind of stuff I really need to Emmerich has served his time, however, with industry giants such as Litton and General Dynamics, contributing his engineering and manto such agement know-hoproject as Atlas missiles, Apollo spacecraft and various The nuclear submarines. side of his Riverton three-month-o- READY-MI- 1730 BECK STREET GRAVEL PRECAST - PRESTRESS SAND BLASTING GRIT SLAG SPECIAL SANDS SALT LAKE CITY. UT AM 84 PO. BOX 537 ASPHALT 1 1 0 801 359 37U1 processing plants arc relaxing, anticipating an uneventful summer. The City Creek Water Treatment Plant is already operating at less than half its 20 million gallon daily capacity, and workers at the processing plant at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon say although the plant is currently operating at its 39 million gallon capacity, water flow is expected to fall far below its present level by next month. The citys Parley water plant has been dormant this sum4 mer, processing only million gallons daily to keep a one billion gallon balance at the Mountain Dell Reservoir. "Well go into full capacity of 40 million gallons daily when the other plants cannot meet the city's needs," a spokesman at the plant said. The reservoir is fed by Mountain Dell Stream and Lambs Creek, both flowing at only 50 percent their normal level. 3-1- The state has spent $500,000 in cloud seeding projects to increase rainfall and stream flow', but thus far, the process has had little effect on Utah drought conditions. The seeding may continue this summer. |