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Consoweld Office
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Consoweld Company employees shortly after moving into the new company building. It is likely the desk tops are made from a Consoweld plastic laminate product. Consoweld was a subsidiary of Consolidated Papers, Inc., of Wisconsin Rapids.
April 1955
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WHi 53222
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Gisholt Factory
Employee of the Gisholt Company of Madison demonstrating a plastic laminate drill jig manufactured by the Consoweld Company of Wisconsin Rapids.
Sorting Laminate
Bill Hardina and Tony Kissner, two employees of the Plastic Division of Consolidated Papers of Wisconsin Rapids, handling large sheets of the paper-based plastic laminate manufactured by the company.
Laminate Plastic Development
April 22, 1944
Employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids contemplates a die for fabricating tapered paper-based plastic laminate for military purposes.
Consoweld Begins Operations
1954
Officials of the Consoweld Company (formerly the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company) make a final inspection of the equipment in the new plastic laminate plant. They are M.G. Saunders...
Plastics Workers
Workers at the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids handling sheets of the paper-based plastic laminate manufactured by the company.
Plastics Workers
Employees of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids and a large sheet of the paper-based plastic laminate manufactured by the company.
