August 25. 1919 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



29 



Americanizing European Plywood Methods 



iRIOR TO the demoralization in Russia, that coun- 

 try, with its vast timber resources, was recognized 

 as a leader in the world's supply of plywood 

 production. With cheap and experienced labor, 

 excellent equipment and secret processes for producing 

 an efficient waterproof glue, Russian plywood soon built 

 up a world market. 



One of the peculiarities about the Russian plan of 

 manufacture was that the wood was 

 built up into very large sizes and 

 shipped for cutting up by the buyer 

 into sizes suitable for his use. This 

 made possible the production of large 

 quantities salable as standard material, 

 whereas in the average panel plant 

 special sizes were considered as spe- 

 cial orders and so cut. 



One of the largest factors in the 

 Russian plywood industry for a num- 

 ber of years w^as the organization 

 which within the last three years has 

 built up the Flora American Plywood 

 Company, Ltd., which today is oper- 

 ating in this country with an invest- 

 ment in plant and equipment of some 

 $3,000,000. The Flora American 

 Plywood Company, Ltd., has a plant 

 at Macon, Ga., covering 16'/2 acres 

 and cutting up about 15,000,000 feet 

 of timber annually into plywood. An 

 additional plant is located at Portland, Me., which is 

 almost equally as large and cuts up practically as much 

 timber each year. 



.■^CUIFF, PRESIIi 

 MAX 



This business was established in America in 1917 

 through the personal efforts of A. Schiff, president and 

 general manager of the company, who has had twenty- 

 five years of experience abroad in plywood manufac- 

 ture. He was the first to bring Russian plywood to 

 America and has assisted in its introduction all over the 

 world. Mr. SchifF in the past has operated eight different 

 plants in Europe and Asia and is associated with a group 

 of British capitalists with whom he has 

 operated for a number of years on the 

 other side. 



The officers of the Flora American 

 Plyw^ood Company, Ltd., are G. 

 Benenson, chairman of the board, 

 London; A. Schiff, president and gen- 

 eral manager, and A. C. Hanson, 

 vice-president. The New York office 

 of the company is located on the 

 eighth floor of 165 Broadway, which 

 office carries on the export and Amer- 

 ican sales department under the direc- 

 tion of H. P. Coe, who has been 

 closely identified with the production 

 of veneers and veneer machinery in 

 this country for a good many years. 



At the time the company was es- 

 tablished in America in 1917, Mr. 

 Schiff made a careful study of the 

 whole situation and finally decided to 

 locate at Macon, Ga., on account of 

 the accessibility to the large supplies of the timber he 

 planned to utilize, namely, gum, oak, cypress, poplar, 

 beech, maple, and yellow pine. Since then the northern 



ENT AM) GENERAL 

 AGEK 



TEA CHESTS BOXED READY FOR SHIPMENT 



ENGINE AND ELECTRIC GENERATOR. MACON PLANT 



