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Wiley And Clyde Iron

Now Division Of AMCA Int'l —AMCA Sales $100 Million

Having achieved the $100-million sales mark in less than three years, Dombrico, Inc. has moved its corporate headquarters to 10 Allen

Street, Hanover, >N.H. 03755, changed its name to AMCA International Corporation, and an- nounced its intention to become a leading manufacturer of heavy industrial products.

Under the direction of K.S. Barclay, chair- man and chief executive officer, and Jack

Hatcher, president and chief operating officer,

AMCA began an acquisition program in 1971.

Then known as Dombrico, Inc. and located in

New York, the company purchased Varco-

Pruden, third largest metal building manufac- turer. The operations of Priggen Metal Build- ings have since been added.

During 1973, AMCA put together a second division. Present constituents of this Equip- ment Systems Division are Wiley Manufactur- ing, steel fabricators for the marine and con- struction industries; Clyde Iron, builders of "Whirley" cranes and other heavy construc- tion and materials handling equipment; and

Provincial Crane, manufacturers of overhead industrial cranes.

Combined sales of the Varco - Pruden and Equipment Systems Division exceed $100,000,000.

In mid-1973, Dombrico moved its headquar- ters to Hanover, and proceedings were begun to change the firm's name to AMCA Interna- tional Corp., effective in January 1974.

Other AMCA staff officers are William R.

Holland, vice president and general counsel;

Robert A. Reid, vice president-manufacturing, and Frank J. Stevenson, secretary and con- troller.

AMCA International is a subsidiary of Do- minion Bridge Co., Ltd. of Canada.

Kaiser To Build LNG Tanks

For Oceangoing Ships On

Pinto Island In Mobile Bay

Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation,

Oakland, Calif., has announced that it will construct a multi-million-dollar facility at Mo- bile, Ala., to assemble and install huge liquefied natural gas tanks in oceangoing ships.

The company said it has leased approxi- mately 38 acres of land on Pinto Island in

Mobile Bay from the Alabama Drydock and

Shipbuilding Company for the new facility, and construction will begin immediately.

Fifteen all-welded aluminum tanks will be assembled at the site for installation in three liquefied natural gas vessels to be built by

Avondale Shipyards, Inc. at New Orleans, La.

The 1,000-foot-long vessels will be brought to Pinto Island and the tanks—-each approxi- mately 120 feet long, 120 feet wide, and 75 feet high—will then be placed into position.

T.H. Johnson, manager of Kaiser Aluminum's liquefied natural gas project, displays a model of one of 1 5 huge aluminum tanks which will be fabricated at the com- pany's new Pinto Island facility.

The individual aluminum tanks will weigh up to approximately 950 tons. They will be assembled at ground level and will be lifted for placement into the ships by a unique, dou- ble stiff-legged derrick crane standing 30 sto- ries high.

Other facilities to be constructed at the site will include offices, change and lunch rooms, large storage areas and classrooms for an aluminum welding school. Two large re- volving cranes will be installed, as well as special testing facilities capable of hydrostati- cally testing the huge tanks by filling them with up to 8,000,000 gallons of water.

Kaiser Aluminum said that fabrication of the tanks will begin in mid-1974 and continue into 1977. The company expects employment at the facility will be several hundred workers.

When completed, the liquefied natural gas vessels will be used by subsidiaries of El Paso

Natural Gas Co. to haul natural gas at cryo- genic temperatures (260 degrees below zero) from Algeria to East Coast ports.

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