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 engineers have been "debugging" it.
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Griffin Pipe Products Co. File 2 - 1965 -
Griffin Pipe Co. office building, March 1970
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 office building.
Clean smoke drifts from the exhaust stack at Griffin Pipe plant after being filtered through a series of some 500 dacron bags, part of the smoke abatement system. The much-discussed system which has caused considerable trouble over the past few months has been repaired and further improvements are on schedule during a two-week vacation shutdown in July, according to Plant Engineer Jeff Bradley. Extreme heat has caused a warping of the cupola cap which will be replaced in July. The cap forces the cupola smoke through the cooling and cleaning system, Bradley said.
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 community appearance, a company spokesman said. Formal opening will be held in the spring when work and landscaping are completed.
Griffin Pipe Co. Plans Smoke Filtering System - Kiwanians Hear Tutskey
L.W. Tutskey, Vice President in charge of manufacturing for Griffin Pipe Products Co. in Council Bluffs, Iowa
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 increase efficiency of the smoke emission control system. The motor will replace a 250-horsepower model and measures about two-by-two by three-feet long. Installation should be completed in about two weeks.
Griffin Pipe Eyes $650,000 Air Pollution Device Here
Officials Walk By The "Bag House" . . . at Griffin Pipe Co. The facility acts as a giant vacuum cleaner bag where the dust remains on the inside while the clean air passes through to the outside.
Griffin Pipe Plant Plays Big Part In AMSTED Complex
Twenty-Foot Lengths . . . of cast iron pressure pipe are loaded aboard a freight car at the Griffin Pipe Products Co. plant here, an operating unit of AMSTED Industries.
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.
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 the Griffin stack will be mostly steam, not smoke.
Roy Miskelley . . . plant engineer, and Carl McCormick, sales manager of Griffin Pipe Products, admire a plaque given the company Wednesday for their efforts in environmental control.
A 30-ton upper stack, part of the wet scrubber system being installed at Griffin Pipe Co., was raised to the upper cupola of the building Monday afternoon. The upper stack was raised by a crane shipped from Lawrence, Kan., for just that purpose. The plant has been shut down for over a week while the new anti-pollution system was being installed. The system should eliminate about 98 percent of the pollutants from the plant.
Still Hot . . . out of the casting machine, this pipe is being marked by a Griffin Pipe employee. The Griffin plant manufactures ductile iron pipe used primarily in the housing industry.
Smoke Problems Should Be Solved At Griffin Pipe By April - Working Out Operational Bugs February 5, 1965 Griffin To Close July 18 To Repair Smoke Device - Will Take Two Weeks June 25, 1966 Griffin Will Close To Fix Smoke System June 30, 1966 Griffin Back In Operation August 1, 1966 Griffin Smoke System Working August 2, 1966 Fire Damages Paint Room At Griffin Pipe Co. January 31, 1967 Griffin Takes New Look At Smoke, Dust Problem February 9, 1967 Griffin Pipe Co. Plans Smoke Filtering System - Kiwanians Hear Tutskey June 6, 1967 Things Are Happening February 4, 1968 Griffin Pipe Slates Open House Event September 1, 1968 Griffin Prexy Calls CB 'Sleeping Giant' - Must Come Alive Soon September 5, 1968 Griffin Pipe Gets New Smoke Control Equipment June 8, 1969 Small But Mighty June 13, 1969 Griffin Pipe Eyes $650,000 Air Pollution Device Here February 20, 1970 Griffin Pipe Plant Plays Big Part In AMSTED Complex April 26, 1970 Industry Has Duty Solving Problems - Chamber Group Hears May 9, 1970 Pollution-Control Motor Burns Up On First Run June 2, 1970 New Smoke Control Device Begins Monday At Griffin June 6, 1970 Controlled Smoke June 19, 1970 Griffin Smoke Plan Deadline Is Announced September 30, 1970 Commission Informed Of Smoke Plans October 5, 1970 No Letter Yet From Pipe Co. October 27, 1970 Griffin Eyes Summer For Smoke Device October 29, 1970 Griffin Pipe Smoke Bids Will Miss Dec. 1 Deadline November 27, 1970 Griffin To Spend $800,000 To Cut Smoke Problems December 15, 1970 City Officials Pleased With Griffin Pipe Plans December 17, 1970 Griffin's Plan Is 'Too Late' December 31, 1970 Griffin's Pollution Control Equipment To Cost $829,000 - Should Better State Standards February 10, 1971 Griffin Pipe Will Install Pollution Works In August June 22, 1971 A Spaceship? August 24, 1971 Griffin Smoke Equipment Gets 125-Foot Stack November 17, 1971 Smoke Problem Lessens While Noise Increases - At Griffin Pipe December 23, 1971 Residents Near Griffin Pipe Co. To Sleep Better January 15, 1972 Griffin Pipe Has Until April 6 On Citation March 27, 1973 Pipe Company Won't Protest OSHA Citation April 6, 1973 Downtown Omaha Honors Bluffs Firm May 9, 1973 $1.8 Million Expansion For Griffin May 27, 1973 Former Bluffs Men Named By AMSTED January 27, 1974 Company Present For Laid-Off Workers December 22, 1982 Building Upturn Helps Griffin Pipe April 22, 1984 Man Killed In Fall From Crane At Griffin Pipe May 31, 1987
Griswold Church Marks Milestone - Church Observes 70th Anniversary Sunday
Seventy Years Old . . . Griswold Presbyterian church is observing its 70th anniversary at special services Sunday.
Griswold Class Is Still Intact - Three Graduates First At The School
The Latest Annual . . . from the Griswold High School holds the interest of two members from the first graduating class at that school. They are Mrs. Margaret Sidener and Mrs. R.A. Forsyth.
These Kindergartners In Own 'Schoolhouse' - Griswold Youngsters Really Feel At Home
Walking On Lawn . . . of their schoolhouse are Mrs. Jack Ruppert with kindergartners Ronnie Williams, Kathy Tanner, Glen Potter, Mickey Rabe and Jeff Shellberg.
Vacant Griswold Catholic Church Becomes Braden's Modern Apartments - 'Every Old Building Intrigues Me!'
Converted Church . . . sports an apartment sign where Griswold Catholics once entered to worship.
Cleanup Fire Debris At Griswold School - Classes In Other Sites Monday
Floor Buckled . . in elementary principal's office at Griswold School. The overheated boiled blamed for the fire here is located under the office.