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Consoweld Begins Operations
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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, Engineering supervisor, Jay G. Somers, General Manager; J.S. Criswell, production superintendent; and R.V. Boyer, Technical superintendent. Consoweld was sold in 1985.
1954
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Plastics Laboratory
August 10, 1944
Laboratory of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids. The man on the left has been identified as chemist Jay Somers, who was hired in 1942 to establish the pro...
Consoweld Office
April 1955
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 Consolid...
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.
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.
Plastic Laminate
April 22, 1944
Three employees of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company pose with two sheets of the paper-based plastic laminate that the company manufactured for various products during World W...
