Hungry Horse news., 1955-07-01
AAC Nears Large Scale Hiring Period

between July Is and August Is,
the Anaconda Aluminium Co. plant
will employ $50 additional produc-
ton workers.
Applications on file for jobs at the
plant are being processed with men
called for interviews.
Present operations force now totals
1873 and is to increase to $50 by next
fall.
First aluminium production is slat-
ed for late July. The electrode bake
out period III the first two potline
buildings is to start in mid-July
and last for 10 to IL days. Next
step is aluminium production.
Official dedication of the plant is
scheduled for late August with Col
umbia Falls, Whitefish and Kalispell
Chambers of Commerce cooperat-
ing.
Men who are being employed as
the plant nears production have such
jobs as potmen, lift truck operators,
pin pullerS, cranemen, pot reliners,
tappers, unloaders and general lab
OrerS.
A rotating shift in the production
force will be used. Men will work
three five day weeks and then a
six day week each month. Rotating
will be night shift, swing shift and
day shift.
Construction force at the plant de-
creased this week from LIS to !, 14O.
Foley Constructors, the plants gen.
eral contractors, with principal SUBJ
contractor, Donovan Construction
Co., now has 974 men working COM
pared to 1,035 month ago.
Midwest Piping Co., st. Louis,
completed their contract June "a.
Klemens Roofing Co., Great Falls;
B and L Painters, Missoula, and the
joint venture electrical contract of
Fischbach and Moore, !, Seattle,
Brown-Johnston, Spokane, and Cas-
ey Electric Co., Seattle and Column
bia Falls, are to finish late this
month.
Mclaughlin Inc, Great Falls, is
presently placing base material for
asphalt paving of roadways and
parking areas at the plant. Reid
Carlson is the Mclaughlin super
intendent.
Manufacturing process at the new
plant involves the use of alumina
chemically refined bauxite, and q
double compound of sodium anC
fluoride, which is placed in the "a
by 10-foot crucibles or pots that are
Is inches deep. A 3O-ton anode is
used, and temperatures of $50 t.
$40 degrees centigrade will be used
Result is depositing metallic alum
mum. Two pounds of alumina vii
i reduce to a pound of aluminium.
/ Daily output Of each of the 24t
crucibles or pots will be lao
pounds. The plant will operate ever.
day of the year.
About go per cent of the Flathead'
plant capacity will be used to max,
six foot long, 6 inch square bars tina
will be shipped to the Great Fall
Anaconda wire mill. Remainder vii
be made into ingots and pigs TO
shipment.
The pots are lined with a mixtur
of carbon, coke and pitch produces
in the paste plant.
{ 1t will require about kilowat
hours of electricity to make poun
of aluminium. Result is that alumni
is shipped to the proximity of
major power supply from Arkansa
and Texas. This Is the same stu;
ton of alumina supply as for othe
Pacific Northwest aluminium plants
The most efficient methods of pc
luton control devised by industry al
being used in the new Flathea
plant.
H. G. Satterthwaite is the An;
I conda Flathead plant manage
James F. Smith is production SUI
erintendent; Carl Lundborg, mecl
anical superintendent, and Ed Wo
ter, potlines superintendent. job
C. Kearns, personnel director, hal
1 dies employment applications.
John w. Irvine is the Anaconc
4 engineer in charge of the plant
B construction phase Walter Sattl,
B is project manager for Foley Co
y structors, the general contractors.