Levis Becomes OI Vice President; Insulux division created

Chief executives of newly formed Owens-Corning Fiberglas

Corporation: Left, Harold Boeschenstein, president, and

Amory Houghton chairman of the board.

BOESCHENSTEIN HEADS NEW FIBERGLAS

CORPORATION

With the establishment of general offices in the Second National Bank Building, Toledo, the recently-formed Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation is rapidly completing its organization and personnel for the development, manufacture and sale of fiber glass products. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. and Corning Glass Works cooperated in the formation of the new company, which will extend the activities formerly carried on by the parent companies in their plants at Newark, Ohio, and Corning. The president of the new corporation is Harold Boeschenstein, formerly vice-president of Owens-Illinois, and Amory Houghton, president of Corning Glass Works, is chairman of the board. In addition to these, the board of directors will also include C. B. Belknap, U. E. Bowes, G. W. Cole, W. E. Levis and G. D. Macbeth. The new corporation is financed jointly by Owens-Illinois and Corning and is an independent corporate structure. It will not operate as a subsidiary of either parent company.

Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass, working cooperatively on both research and development, have expended a total of about $5,000,000 on the development and manufacture of fiber glass products, including perfection of necessary machinery and processes, all of which are covered by basic patents. The commercial importance of fiber glass arises from its resistance to the action of moisture, chemicals and heat, and it is used in all sorts of textile forms, such as loose fiber, yarn, tape and cloth. Successful applications include heat insulation for ovens, refrigerators and piping; electrical insulation for motors and other electrical equipment; building insulation; mulch for plants and shrubs; air filters; chemical fillers; and storage battery separator plates.

Other officials of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation are Games Slayter, vice-president, who is credited with a major role in the development of this new product; W. B. [sic] W. P. Zimmerman, vice-president in charge of manufacturing and sales, formerly general manager of the industrial products division of Owens-Illinois; G. E. Gregory, general sales manager, formerly sales manager of fiber products at Corning; A. C. Freligh, secretary, formerly comptroller of fibre products at Corning; H. R. Winkle, comptroller, former assistant comptroller of Owens-Illinois.

Most of the development and manufacturing activities of the new company will be carried on in the big plant which Owens-Illinois built and equipped at Newark, Ohio. Assisting Mr. Slayter at Newark are J. H. Thomas, manager of research development, and H. C. Bates, manager of product development and experimental sales. The manufacturing activities will be headed by B. E. Boyd, general factory manager. W. M. Bergin, superintendent of wool production, and J. D. Barker, superintendent of textile production.

The sales and administrative officials of the new company are located in the general offices at Toledo. Assistants to Mr. Gregory are R. C. Dodson, sales control; I. A. Rustad, field sales coordination; and Philip Linne, advertising. Product sales managers are H. R. Black, special products; J. S. Irvine, air filters; D. C. Simpson, textiles; and W. C. Wilson, insulation products. J. G. Leisenring functions as operations supervisor and C. G. Staelin heads the legal and patent department.

LEVIS BECOMES O.-I. VICE-PRESIDENT

J. P. Levis, formerly head of the Owens-Illinois Pacific Coast Co., has been named vice-president and general manager of the Owens-Illinois Glass Co., replacing Harold Boeschenstein, who recently resigned to become president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation. Mr. Levis has also been made a director of Owens-Illinois. His early training was with the Illinois Glass Co. and he was manager of the plant at Alton before going to the Pacific coast subsidiary. Several other executive changes have been made necessary by the resignation of those who have joined the management of the new fiber glass company. The Insulux Products Division takes over the remaining activities of the former Industrial and Structural Products Division, including structural building blocks and Hemingray insulators, and will be headed by S. J. McGiveran as general manager. Hugh Paul has been appointed sales manager of this division. H. S. Wade has been named vice-president and general manager in the Owens-Illinois Pacific Coast Co., replacing Mr. Levis, and R. B. Haworth has become genera) factories manager for the Western subsidiary.

Three developers of fiber glass. Left to right: Dr. Eugene

C. Sullivan, director of research. Corning Glass Works;

U. E. Bowes, director of research, Owens-Illinois Glass Co.;

and Games Slayter, vice-president of the newly formed

Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, who is credited with

having played a major part in the development of Fiberglas.