Newspaper article:Wooster Brush Co Concludes Biggest Year DR May 3 1924p1 - The Daily Record August 22 2022
- Article title
- Wooster Brush Co. Concludes Biggest Year
- Newspaper title
- The Daily Record
- Date of publication
- 1924/05/03
- Page number
- 1
- Organization
- Industry
- Wholesale > Merchant Wholesalers - Nondurable Goods
- Manufacturing > Miscellaneous Manufacturing
- Manufacturing > Plastics and Rubber Products
- Manufacturing > Machinery Manufacturing
- Manufacturing > Steel Mill
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Wooster Brush Co. Concludes Biggest Year: Brick Plant Running at Capacity. McIntosh-Hemphill Factory Shows Increase.
Inquiries made by the Record Saturday disclosed the information that Wooster's leading manufacturing institutions are operating successfully, with three out of the five canvassed reported in considerably better position that they were a month or more ago.
"We're running at full capacity," declared F. E. Schultz, of the Medal Paving Block Co. This plant, just west of the city, is employing about sixty men. The company is rushed with orders for face brick having shipped about a million and a half bricks last month.
The Thomas Rubber Co., as noted elsewhere in this issue, is putting on a night shift in order to fill a recent large order for tires.
At the plant of the Buckeye Aluminum Co. it was reported that work right now is not as rushing as it had been a few months ago, but that orders keep coming in and in amounts sufficient to keep 140 to 150 men regularly employed.
The plant of the McIntosh-Hemphill Co. is one that is showing distinct signs of improvement. The brass foundry there was recently reopened and men are being added in the machine shop. About three times as many men are employed now as were working a month ago. A considerable amount of work is ahead, and the outlook is most promising.
The Wooster Brush Co., with the close of April, completed the biggest year in all of its history. The present time of the year is the brush concern's slack period, and this has been slightly augmented by the late spring. About 75 or 80 per cent of the normal working force is now employed, however, and indications all point to a resumption at full capacity within a very short time.