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Can manufacturing plant and office at Fremont, Calif., acquired by CT Supply Co, in 1964, 
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Plant of CT Supply Co,, Fremont, Calif,, is a one-story concrete building covering about 200,000 square feet, 
OPERATIONS 
The company purchases all of the basic raw 
materials used in the manufacturing of cans 
and normally keeps a 30-day supply on hand, 
Tin plate, which is received in coils, comes 
from all over the United States. The company 
manufactures the 12 most commonly used sizes 
of cans--ranging from No. 202to one-gallon. 
Orders from the member processing plants 
are phoned directly into the production planning 
department and are then consolidated into the 
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master production schedules. This is a major 
area of savings because it eliminates all sell- 
ing costs such as salesmen's wages, advertis- 
ing, and promotion. Only one man is employed 
as a technical assistant to service the accounts, 
The cans are all sold at standard list prices 
for that area and a 1l-percent discount is al- 
lowed for cash payment within 10 days, All- 
sales are made f.o.b. the manufacturing plant. 
Both cooperatives have trucking facilities to 
haul products to markets and to pick up and 
