The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
SCREENED S[AG IF. | BIRMINGHAM USED |F0R CONSTRUCTION
Business, Shows Remarkable Growth in Five Years,
 Ireland Says

Five years ago Birmingham did an annual screened slag business of 50.000 tons.
 Last year that business amounted to 5oO,000 tons and this year it is headed to 100000 tons.
 The Birmingham 'Slag company. principal operator, has a payroll of i s1,o0O to s20O0 per working day and distributes S30,000 to s50.0oo nGnthly in wages to it's employees. This in general way indicates the growth of that business in tbs Birmingham district.
 ne railroads alone derived s750 ooo or revenue from the slag hauled 1 rom the Birmingham pits last year. the average per ton being s1.50. In addition to screening and sbi, ping stag the Birmingham Sag company has developed face brick business of considerable magnitude Ihls brick is made of a composition or furnace slag and concrete mixed I Tn fisht proportions and takes every shade of mineral coloring in the n;v- ing so that the product carries a Narlety Of hues rendering it suited loA any of the purposes of face brick. rms plant is al Ensley alongside the slag pits and has an output of oV,UuU Dflck per diem.
 Standard Product.
 We have a greater demand for our Slag-TeX brick than our plant will supply" said II. G. Ireland, vice president and general manager. The first three months of this year have heen our best. It is a comparatively new product, only two years of age and we had to go through the usual rub of introduction, but we have succeeded and another Birmingham product is now standard"
 Birmingham slag goes afield It has particular hold on the engi- neers. architects and building con- tractors of Georgia. The last large | s5,GO0,000 structures under process in Atlanta are being built of Bir- ! mingham slag. They are the Bilt- more apartments. taking 15,OoO tons | the Rich store, the Westinghouse Electric company's building, the George A. Fuller building and the 1 Pershing Point apartments. None of these buildings is taking less than 1 10000 tons. Birmingham slag has such hold in Georgia that an office i is maintained in Atlanta and one in
 Thomasville.
 We are especially gratified over i these large Atlanta contracts said
 MT. Ireland, because We got these l jobs for Birmingham slag over com- | ptlltloll Nllns 1eOfEla granite Quar-
 ries and Tennessee gravel. | O O O
 Demand Is Great.
 AS is the case with our concrete-
 slag brick. the demand for Birming- l nam slag for construction is greater
 at this time than We can supply. We are doing our best business. The | prospects are excellent. A business
 of 500.000 tons last year looks like
 750,000 tons this year and we con 1 fidently expect to do that business unless we run against another coal 1 priority proposition such as occur
 red all during the coal strike" Mir. Ireland indicated that the i company would make further de- 1 partures in manufacture of slag and
 concrete mixtures. His company has i already developed a slab of concrete and slag that resembles granite and
 would serve for steps, slls, corners
 of buildings and the like.
 Uses of Birmingham furnace slag
 are growing all the time.' said MT Iceland. "It has become one of the
 important industries of the sdistric,
 and is developing rapidly. Slag was
 once used only for foundations. It is now used in the entire structure of reinforced concrete buildings such as
 are being built in Atlanta | Principal slag pits of the company
 are at the Ensley furnaces and 1 those Of the Alabama company at
 Gadsden The slag is crushed and
 screened to any size desired.