Pinco enlarges and remodels insulator plant

Lima Insulator Enlarges, Remodels

Plant With Production Demands

Though recently completed plant expansion has enabled The Porcelain Insulator Corporation, Lima, N. Y. to raise production to an all time high, the company's backing of orders is at a similar peak. And, reports Leo B. Harvey, Pinco president, all signs point to a continuing firm demand for high voltage electrical porcelain, in which the company specializes.

To prepare for such a contingency, Pinco, as the Porcelain Insulator Corporation is known to electric light and power men all over the world, last year undertook large scale plant enlargement, remodeling and installation of new equipment. Completion of this program has provided completely new general offices and quarters for engineering and research laboratories, as well as greatly enlarged facilities for all manufacturing departments and raw material storage.

Expansion of Pinco engineering, research and production facilities are important not only to the company and its employes but to the whole electric power industry. For Pinco, on its past record, is regarded as a leading factor in the development of new uses for porcelain as insulation equipment for high voltage electricity, as well as being one of the largest suppliers of standard design suspension, pin type and switch and bus insulators. Several features pioneered by Pinco, such as the "corset type" cap for suspension insulators and the one-piece high voltage pin type insulator, are now standard throughout the industry.

Future prospects for Pinco and other companies in its field are bright because, during the war, manufacturers of electrical porcelain was strictly limited. Expansions and modernization by power and light companies, thus delayed, is now going forward as rapidly as possible. This is creating an unprecedented demand for standard insulators, while war born developments in power generation and transmission present new product opportunities for insulator manufacturers such as Pinco. Economists regard this construction program by one of the country's key industries, for much of which funds have already been allocated, as a most important stabilizing factor in America's postwar economy.