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New offices of Griffin Pipe Products Company at 2601 Ninth Ave., are nearing completion and will give the company two and a half times more space. The new building enlargement is due to added expansion in the past two years and also to improve…
Smoke Problems Should Be Solved At Griffin Pipe By April - Working Out Operational Bugs
Billowing Over The Heads . . . of city and Chamber of Commerce leaders is a cloud of steam which is created by treatment of production smoke. A smoke abatement device at the Griffin Pipe Products plant has been in part time use since September while…
Smoke Problem Lessens While Noise Increases - At Griffin Pipe
An Outside Consultant . . . tests the emissions from Griffin Pipe Company, which recently installed a new anti-pollution device. Company officials expect the pollutants to be below the 30 pound limits of Iowa law. The white substance coming out of…
Small But Mighty
Dick Dekker, acting works manager at Griffin Pipe Products here checks a new 400-horsepower electric motor designed to increase the fan capacity on the plant's cupola from 75,000 to 93,000 cubic feet-per-minute. The addition is part of efforts to…
New Griffin Pipe Plant Here In Full Production - After Year Of Remodeling
Red-Hot 20-Foot Length . . . of pipe is pulled from one of the three centrifugal casting machines. By pressing three buttons on an electronic control panel, a workman can turn out the pipe, extract it from the casting machine and send it to the…
Local Plant Turns Out 45,000 Wheels During Year - One Bit Of Rail Equipment Changed
View in the stock room. Finished wheels ready for shipment. Each wheel possesses the requisite properties for the particularly severe job it must do.
Local Plant Turns Out 45,000 Car Wheels During Year - One Bit Of Rail Equipment Changed
A wheel after being stripped from the mold and just before being placed in the annealing pits.
Local Plant Turns Out 45,000 Car Wheels During Year - One Bit Of Rail Equipment Changed
Finishing the cope side of the mold. Shown in the foreground are some of the finished molds.
Local Plant Turns Out 45,000 Car Wheels During Year - One Bit Of Rail Equipment Changed
Pouring of molten metal from a large ladle into small ladle prior to pouring into molds.
Large New Industry To Open In Council Bluffs - With Annual Payroll Of $350,000
Cheered By Prospects . . . for industrial expansion here are: Orris Dean, T. Joe Smith and Sam C. Prest. Council Bluffs was picked out of an area from Tacoma, Wash., to the Mississippi River.
Griffin's Pollution Control Equipment To Cost $829,000 - Should Better State Standards
Looking Over Final Plans . . . for Griffin Pipe Company's new wet scrubber cleaning system are B.B. Barefoot, president of the manufacturer hired to install the system, Robert Peting and J.C. Moreland.
Griffin Prexy Calls CB 'Sleeping Giant' -Must Come Alive Soon
At Luncheon Ceremony . . . G. Thomas Reilly, representing the Citizens Committee for Community Development, presents an award to Frank Marold. It was for the job Griffin Pipe Products Co. has done in refurbishing its plant and constructing a new…
Griffin Plant Installs Smoke Abatement System - To Be In Operation About Sept. 1
Inspecting Smoke System . . . at Griffin Pipe Co. are Roy Caputo, works manager, and James Carter, erection engineer. Frank Merk, general foreman, steadies a ladder for foreman Bill Marlo.
Griffin Pipe Products Co.
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Griffin Pipe Co. office building, March 1970
Griffin Pipe Products Co.
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Inside Griffin Pipe Products Co., 1984
Griffin Pipe Products Co.
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Inside Griffin Pipe Products Co., 1984
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Griffin Pipe Products Co. signage
Griffin Pipe Products Co.
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Awaiting Treatment . . . at Mercy Hospital after the blast at Griffin Pipe Products Co., are Virgil Liddell of Oakland and Merle Frazier of Omaha. Both suffered head injuries.