J-M's Denver R&D Center

The Johns-Manville Corp. has dedicated its multimillion dollar Research and Development Center on the company's 10,000 acre Ken-Caryl Ranch, southwest of Denver. John D. Vanderhoof, Governor of Colorado; W. R. Goodwin, president and chief executive officer of Johns-Manville and Dr. Fred L. Pundsack, senior v.p. research and development, presided.

The 221,000-sq.-ft. complex, one of the most advanced facilities of its type, is devoted to the scientific development of raw materials, industrial specialties, commercial and industrial insulation, pipe, construction materials, and environmental control systems.

Goodwin noted that the research complex is the first major step completed at the ranch as part of J-M's consolidation move to centralize and provide closer coordination between research, product development and administrative functions.

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The ratio between number of employees survey by the National Dealers Assn.

dealer sales volume and the showed a wide range in a new Lumber and Building Materials

For a number of single yards with sales in the $250,000 category, sales per employee ranged from a low of $28,500 up to 960,000. A group of yards with sales in the $500,000 category showed a variation in the sales ratio from $,m,000 to $70,000.