Smyrna times., 1963-07-11
Construction Starts On
New Taylor Plant Here

Ground was DrOken MonQay
for the new $1,000 square foot
plant of Taylor Corporation,
Valley Forge, Pa, on North
Main Street opposite the new
elementary school.
Taylor will install In the new
plant its filament winding pro-
duction facilities, which are now
located In its Valley Forge
plant. Development engineering
for both filament winding and
tape winding will also be car
ried on at the Smyrna plant.
The plant will be erected at
Smyrna to relieve the over
crowding which has resulted
from the rapid expansion of
Taylor's Filament Winding Di-
vision. Established In 1861, the
Filament Winding Division Is
now producing at the rate of
approximately 81 million per
year in net sales, compared to a
rate of about $72, 900 per year
at this period in 1862.
Filament winding is a relat-
lively new technique for manu-
featuring structural parts with
the highest strength-to-w weight
ratios known. Filament wound
parts, produced by directionally
winding resin : impregnated
glass filaments on a mandrel,
curing, then machining have
the strength of steel yet weigh
less than aluminium. Primary
applications have been for air
craft and missiles, but widening
applications are being found In
electrical, chemical, petroleum
and other industries and for
firearms and recoiless wea-
pons.
Tape winding, also to be car
ried out at the Smyrna plant, is
similar to filament winding but
uses tape made by impregnating
strips of cloth with resin rather
than impregnated glass fila
ments. Tape wound parts are
cured under pressure In hyd-
roclaves to increase their
mechanical properties.
The new plant, located on l2-
acre site, will have 10000
square feet of manufacturing
and storage space and 1000
square feet of office and engin-
eering space. The manufactur-
ing space will allow an increase
of approximately so per cent in
production capacity; moreover,
the building - a Butler Monop-
anel designed by Butler Manu-
featuring Company = can be
quickly and economically ex-
panded to provide more space
when needed. The plant site is
large enough to permit expans-
ion to meet all foreseeable man
ufacturing requirements.
The building will be air con-
dittoned throughout for employ
ee comfort and so provide the
controlled temperature and
humidity required for the pro-
duction of high quality parts for
the aerospace industry.
The contract for the constru-
ction has been awarded to the
Haddock Construction Comp
any. Wilmington. Delaware.
Present plans call for complet-
ion of the building about October
l, 1868, with production schedul-
ed to begin approximately one
month later.
Equipment to be moved to the
Smyrna plant from Valley Forge
includes two production fila
ment winders and one develop
ment machine, tape winder, a
hydroclave, procure ovens,
batch cure ovens, madrel pull
lers and polishers, grinders
and associated equipment. In
italy Taylor will supplement
this equipment with a lathe for
finishing work and with another
large batch oven. Equipment
will be arranged for efficient
milne production.
Among the reasons Taylor
selected as a plant site is its
proximity to East Coast manu-
featuring centers; for example,
parts can be trucked to New
York City in approximately four
hours.
mitially about so people will
be employed In the new plant.
Without further expansion the
building will provide space for
approximately 80 production
workers and about 20 office
and engineering employees.
The erection of a new plant
at Smyrna marks the second
plant expansion by Taylor In
less than year. Early In June
the. company announced the
move of Dytronics Incorporated
a subsidiry making die stam-
ped circuits for electrical and
electronic applications, from
Rochester, Mich, to a larger
plant In Leesburg. Ind.
In addition to filament wound
structures, Taylor manufact-
ures Industrial laminated plast-
les, reinforced plastic mat
erials, copper-clad laminates
and uulcanized fibre at its
Valley Forge plant and also
fabricates laminated plastic and
vulcanized fibre parts there.
The company also operates