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Monopol And Hempel

Form New Norwegian

Paint Company

A new joint paint company has been formed in Norway between

Monopol Maling—og Lakkindustri

A/S of Bergen and Hempel's Ma- rine Paints A/S of Copenhagen.

The new company—which is to be called Monopol-Hempel A/S— will absorb both companies' activ- ities in Norway, with Hempel of

Copenhagen holding the majority shareholding.

The company will be headquar- tered in Bergen, where Monopol has its production plant, and will manufacture both companies' range of marine, offshore, container and industrial paints as well as heavy duty coatings.

Monopol has been manufactur- ing specialized coatings for the

Norwegian market since the 1920s.

Monopol will have access to the

Hempel range of coatings—as well as to Hempel's worldwide service organization. product and provides specification data on its design properties, in- cluding deflection and loading.

Uniform strength characteris- tics of Micro = Lam scaffold plank- ing are attributed to Trus Joist's proprietary lamination process which has been used in manufac- turing the company's structural building materials for years. Each

Micro = Lam plank is made up of many thin layers of veneer, which have been coated with waterproof adhesives and densified by heat and pressure. Each board has been ultrasonically graded and laid up in a predetermined pattern to pro- duce planking with predictable, unparalleled performance.

Because knots, grains and splits are dispersed throughout the many layers of veneer, the finished prod- uct guarantees extremely high safety standards and can last two to three times longer than most planking products on the market today. Micro = Lam scaffold planks are lighter in weight and shorter in length than conventional planking which simplifies both in- stallation and transport.

For a free brochure,

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THERE ARE JUST

TWO KINDS OF VENT VALVES...

Wager Vent Vakes (THEN ALLTHE OTHERS)

American Systems Awarded $413,775 Contract For

Engineering Services

Carl M. Albero, president of

American Systems Engineering

Corporation, Virginia Beach, Va., announced that the company has been awarded a $413,775 contract to provide management, engineer- ing and technical services in sup- port of material assessment, main- tenance planning, as well as preparations for Light Off Exami- nation and Board of Inspection and Survey Trials for Battleship (BB) Class Ships. The services will be predominantly performed in

Pascagoula, Miss. Similar services were performed last year during the Navy's reactivation of the USS

New Jersey at the Long Beach Na- val Shipyard in California.

AmSEC is one of Tidewater's fastest growing small business firms. The company provides ma- rine and field engineering support services to manufacturers of mari- time propulsion plant machinery and to the U.S. Navy.

New 8-Page Brochure On

Micro = Lam Scaffold Planks

Offered Free By Trus Joist

High-strength Micro = Lam lam- inated veneer lumber scaffold planking is featured in a new bro- chure released by Trus Joist Cor- poration of Boise, Idaho.

The new eight-page guide illus- trates several different applica- tions for the exceptionally durable

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Come see us at the SNAME Expo — Wager Booth 317.

We make Wager Vent

Valves-strong, true, rugged performers. These are vent valves you can count on for the long haul, in all kinds of sea, in all kinds of weather.

No one comes close to Wager in fine quality of design, materials, and workmanship-yet you can have Wager valves and pay about the same, sometimes surprisingly less than you might spend elsewhere.

Wager has meant finest quality back to our introduction of the innovative "ball float"valve in 1933. We have perfected that valve along the way. If we hit on a way to perfect it further-we will.

Quite simply: Wager makes the best vent valves in the business.

We intend to keep it that way.

Some marine people have asked us why we don't come up with a"blind"line of less exacting quality-just to compete with those lowest bidders. But we are not interested in producing "makeshift" valves, with the troubles they may give you at sea and the delays for replacement they may cause you in port.

Robert H. Wager Co., Inc.

Passaic Avenue

Chatham, NJ 07928 USA

Write us for spec sheets-no obligation.

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