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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1919. 



A COURSE IN CORPORATION CHEMISTRY. 



Tlie Newark Technical School, 367 High street, Newark, New 

 Jersey, announces that during the coming term Dr. Frederic 

 Dannerth will deliver a course of thirty lectures on corporation 

 chemistry, covering the five following general topics : Natural 

 resources, executive departments, advisory departments, labora- 

 tory management, and the economic office. 



Dr. Dannerth is a well-known industrial chemist and also the 

 inventor of numerous secret processes employed in manufactur- 

 ing rubber, resins, and plastics. The aim of his course will be 

 to show how the principles of industrial chemistry are applied 

 to the problems of manufacturing corporations. The lectures 

 and seminars will be conducted in such a manner that the work 

 of tlie course can be 



taken to advantage by " ^ 



the heads of the depart- 

 ments for purchasing, 

 manufacturing, selling, 

 engineering, law, and re- 

 search, as well as by 

 fourth-year men in chem- 

 istry. 



Complete details can 

 be had by addr.sMiv,' 

 either Dr. D. R. llod-- 

 don or Dr. Frederic 

 Dannerth at the school. 



HEYDEN CHEMICAL 

 WORKS SOLD FOR 

 $1,500,000. 



The Heyden Chemical Plant of the 



Works, Garfield, New 



Jersey, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the United 

 States, and which was German-owned before its seizure by former 

 Alien Property Custodian Palmer, has been sold to Allan A. 

 Ryan for $1,500,000. The property includes about seven acres 

 of land on which stand an office, laboratory, seventeen mill 

 buildings and a salicylic acid sublimation plant. 



While the products of the concern are chiefly of a pharma- 

 ceutical character, a few are of interest to the rubber trade, 

 namely, hexamcthylene tetramine, a vulcanizing accelerator, and 

 salol, a vulcanized rubber solvent. 



AJAX RUBBER CO., INC., REPORTS PROGRESS. 



The Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., New York City, in its recently 

 published annual report for the year ended December 31. 1918, 

 comments on the unusual aspects of the business year just com- 

 pleted, in spite of which it recorded a gain of 40 per cent in 

 sales over those of 1917. A summary of the report shows the 

 following: 



Assets. 



Capital asset! $4,034,823.20 



Current assets 6,924.239.94 



Organiialion expen."S, insurance, etc 112,571.15 



I.niili.lTiES. $11,071,634.29 



Capital stock, authorized and issued $7,100,000.00 



Current liabilities, including notes and accounts payable, 

 bonuses, taxes (includinR war prcfils and income taxes), 



etc. . . : 2.839,425.44 



Surplus, includinR profits for vear after providing for Fed- 

 eral war profit* -(nd income taxes and deducting divi- 

 dends paid 1,132,208.85 



$11,071,634.29 

 Profit and Loss Account, 

 Sales, less expenses, allowance for depreciation of plants and 



equipment, discounts, etc $5,459,346.14 



Administration expf^nscs, bonuses, bad debts, interest on bor- 

 rowed money, loss on Liberty Bonds, etc 3.522.8SS.66 



$2,936,460.48 



Donations to war relief funds $21,092.23 



Provision for Federal war profits and income 



taxes (estimated) 1,700,000.00 



1,721,092.23 



Profit, for year $1.21S.36».25 



CANADA PRODUCING RUBBER MACHINERY. 



I IP to two years ago practically all the machinery needed in 

 ^ the 23 rubber factories of Canada had to be imported, 

 nearly all of it coming from the United States or Great Britain. 

 More than one-half of these factories are owned and operated 

 by the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, and it oc- 

 curred to T. H. Rieder, formerly the president, that the 

 machinery requirements of its own factories and such outside 

 trade as could be secured would warrant a plant exclusively de- 

 voted to the production of special rubber machinery. 



Accordingly the Rubber Machinery Shops were established, the 

 plant shown here was erected at Kitchener, Ontario, and thus 

 was started the first 

 and only concern de- 

 voted to this business in 

 Canada. The buildings 

 are of brick, of mill 

 construction, fireproof, 

 admirably adapted for 

 the purposes intended, 

 and fully equipped with 

 the necessary machin- 

 ery and tools. 



Although the busi- 

 ness is only 18 or 20 

 months old, between 

 lOO and ISO men are 

 steadily employed. 

 Plans are already un- 

 der way to cooperate 

 Rubber M.^chinery Shops. ^^"h the city govern- 



ment of Kitchener: in 

 the event of a public technical school being established, the wood- 

 working pattern-making, and machine-shop departments will form 

 a valuable adjunct to the school. 



The concern has established a most liberal apprenticeship sys- 

 tem, has provided for the health and comfort of its employes, 

 and in other ways made the work in its shops attractive. The 

 business is flourishing and is constantly enlarging. 



The executive staff is as follows : F. W. Harding, general 

 manager; H. S. Poole, chief engineer; C. H. Harding, superin- 

 tendent; .'Mien Clarke, production engineer, and C. W. Cress- 

 man, in charge of office. 



CANADIAN NOTES. 



The K. & S. Canadian Tire & Rubber Co., Limited. Weston, 

 Ontario, is to build a factory addition which will double its 

 present floor space and provide facilities for the manufacture 

 of dipped goods. It now manufactures rubber sundries and half- 

 heels and whole heels. This concern is also having plans pre- 

 pared for a tire factory. Connections have been established 

 on the Continent, in England and in the United States. 



The Hercules Rubber Co., Limited, Brampton, Ontario, has 

 completed its factory and began operations early in April. It is 

 specializing on tires, tubes, and accessories. 



The Premier Rubber Co., Limited, Guelph, Ontario, has 

 changed its name to The Northern Rubber Company, Limited. 

 F. E. Partridge is president and A. F. Dwyer, secretary. The 

 concern will manufacture rubber footwear exclusively in its new 

 four-story factory now building. 



The Sterling Rubber Co., Limited, Guelph, Ontario, manu- 

 facturer of high-grade rubber specialties and sundries, is 

 building an addition to its factory which will practically 

 double its present floor space. The cost will be about $25,000. 



The Aero Cushion Inner Tire & Rubber Co. of Ontario, 

 Limited, Wingham, Ontario, has purchased two factory 

 buildings, one 200 by 80 and the other 165 by 65 feet, for which 

 it is ordering machinerj- to manufacture its "Aero" cushion 



