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Show the .ENTERPRISE La-Z-B- oy unveils Utah plans Chair Company, a publicly held firm with annual sales exceeding $100 million, plans to build a $6 million manufacturing plant in Tremonton, the Enterprise has learned. It will eventually employ 600 persons. Company officials expect to turn out 500 units per day by the end of the first years operation, they said, with production eventually building to 1.000 units per day. Two hundred Utahns will be employed initially, and the company will bring in a management team of six. Groundbreaking for the 300.000 square foot plant and warehouse is expected within 60 days. The firm has purchased a 50 acre site for the project. Charles Nocella, vice presSiloam ident of the Springs, Ark. plant, will become general manager of the Utah operation, with Larry Woolacc, cost accountant at Neosha plant in Missouri, becoming plant superintendant. The company will bring in foremen from its eight U.S. plants to head up upholstery, sewing and woodroom departments. comptroller Gene Hardy told the Enterprise the plant could be financed through industrial revenues bonds. The decision will be based on our initial plant he explained. plans, Though we eventually want a 300,000 square foot facility, construction would exceed the maximum of $5 million as provided for by industrial bond laws, and we would have to wait three years to make any additions. The company, he said, is weighing advantages of the industrial bonding and possible inflation problems when expansion would be permitted three years hence, versus other conventional methods of financing, internally generated funds included. If the firm chooses not to go the industrial bonding route, he said, it would probably build everyLa-Z-B- oy La-Z-B- 'W pSXSvVipXv-.'.fX- si V Pour it then up... up, up... MTj The reason is on site construction which means lower labor costs, less freight and fabrication PA- - time. ConcreteTLT-U- oy construction is done in two steps: P ONE Concrete wall panels are poured on the floor slabs. TWO They are tilted up to form the walls and welded 9 into place. La-Z-B- oy thing in one phase. We should know within four weeks, he added. selHardy said ected Tremonton because of its small town atmosphere. We only have one plant in a city of more than 25,000, Small Hardy continued. towns offer us a chance to be the major employer, which in turn increases employee incentive to stay and grow with us. Your new building was meant to last longer and concreteTJLT -- UP panels will last indefinitely. Our walls are structurally i up, and.-.- . stronger than most other types of construction. 4 construction offers almost unlimited design textures, from wood and brick to stone aggregate veneer. j TILT-U- P No matter how you look at it, TILT-U- P makes cental r Xlf $'s dfM Call today! JLai PRESTO! La-Z-B- oy '"I s' I i- - fi . .v.4.1 -r W' r ,,M 4. 7vSw MATTRESSES GSj, liwiiigmnfp tslii<lii g&suf) k, i M HUGHES & SOUS INC, General Contractors 292-14- 11 P.O. Box 86 Bntfl., Utah c O |