Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-05 | Page 13 | Canning Plants Are Remodeled

CANNING PLANTS ARE REMODELED Machinery of Modern Type Placed in Local Factories Employing a large force throughout the - ear, rotching a maximum of more (hue J.IO people during die rush season, sea-son, the American Can company has. become one of the greatest industrial establishments of ' glen since it was founded In IK 14 to supply the needs of t"i h canners. The factory, located, on Lincoln avenue between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, was built in 1914, ih- tirsi can being produced on March I, 1313. Since that date the' factory has been in almost continuous operation. The large brick building erected by :i,e ( oiiiparn h"Ue the offices, the Shipping rooms. the storage rooms, can making, box making. material storage and heating plants of the company, com-pany, with all of the most modern equipment that can be secured for the making of the cans that are uaed by l'tah canners There are f ive automatic lines for can making, tho 1 tin plate in sheet form being started at the one end of these, lines and emerging at tho other end finished and tested cans of various sizes. Cut- ' ters that are used for handling the material are also installed In these sections. l TOM V I IC LINES, From the automatic lines the cans are carried to storage rooms which have B capacity of 7,3uO.OOo cans. Here a great surplus is developed each year, to be used in the rush seasons, In addition to the shipments made to the vaiiqUS cnnnerles for storage PH-or PH-or to operating seasons Tho company not only makes tin cans but also furnishes packing eases of wooden construction for a large portion of (he factory's output of cans. I Shipping facilities Include lines of both the Union Pacific system and the Denver & Ulo Grande. Over the industrial in-dustrial tracks lea-ling to the factory there can be chipped lo carloads of cans each day, the average of 73.000 cans being placed In each car. in the rush seasons, direct loading to the: cars Is Hie custom. H. V. Phelps of New York, who is I vice president of the parent company, the American Can eompany, Is president presi-dent of the American Can Company ..T l'tah. J. G Leonard is manager of, the company. He has handled the on-I tire business of the large factory since j it was founded, opening up tho plant ami having charge of its operations since that time. SEALING M HIM - One phase of lhe can company's; business Is the maintenance of the j scaling machines, especially built for! the proper sealing of the sanitary cans, j This winter the company is rebuilding ' oiM- hundred of these machines that are used in l'tah anneries, the main floor of the company's vast warehouse greatly resembling a machine 6hop during the operations for these betterments, bet-terments, made to even more nearly i" rfect the mechanical equipment of' l'tah 1 a nherlea