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Show United Concrete Pipe Corp. Starts $250,000 Improvement In P. Ci A $250,000 expansion and improvement im-provement program is currently being: launched at the Pleasant Grove plant of the United Concrete Con-crete Pipe Co. According to Jack Love, Superintendent of the local industrial facility, the program is two-fold. Fir9t, to modernize the plant in keeping with the latest manufacturing- trends and second, to prepare for the increase of business busi-ness confidently expected when the "Central Utah Projects" get underway. The first of several building' projects is now underway, which consists of a 100 by 260 foot building of 21,000 square ft. capacity. capa-city. This building will house the steel cylinder pipe fabrication activities ac-tivities and will be entirely enclosed. en-closed. The new building will cost $50,000 and will keep noise and dust to a minimum. Mr. Love said. Plans for other enclosed build- ing-s are currently on the drawing draw-ing board and these together with the one now under construction con-struction will make year-round operations possible. At present, only 10 men are employed, due to unfavorable weather conditions; condi-tions; but during; the production season, 120 men are on the payroll. pay-roll. The future enclosed building3 will include those for spinning operations, op-erations, pre-stress, fabrication, and pre-wrapping and coating. The project also includes the construction of warehouse facilities facil-ities and leveling, grading and laying of 120,000 square feet of blacktop on inter-plant roads. In addition the company property will be completely enclosed with chainlink fence. United Concrete has purchased the adjoining property on the west and south and this area will be improved, as well as the property prop-erty on the north, if it can be acquired, Mr. Love stated. Mr. Love pointed out that taxes tax-es paid by the company into the city treasury are not spent for plant improvement, but for general gen-eral use of the city. He explained that United Concrete Con-crete is reaching out into Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Western Colorado; but that the headquarters headquar-ters of all these moimtain states operations will remain in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, if a friendly attitude to the company continues to prevail. pre-vail. "The Central Utah Projects will guarantee capacity production produc-tion and in increasing; local payroll," pay-roll," he concluded. |