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Johns-Manville will build a nerv insulating board plant near Klamath Falls, Oregon, as part of the company's $30,000,000 expansion program now underway in the Pacific Coast area, announced President A. R. Fisher March 12. Initial estimates indicate that the ultimate cost of the plant, and timberlands to be purchased, may reach $12,000,000. The plant is expected to be in operation by the middle of 1957.

Announcement of the Klamath Falls plant closely follows nen's that Jol-rns-Manville will also begin construction of arr additional Transite asbestos-cement pipe plant at Stockton, California. The company's expansion in the rapidly growing Pacific Coast area was emphasized a month ago rvith the announcement that it had signed an option on a large gypsum deposit near Las Vegas, Nevada, and is considering entering the gypsum business. Other recent projects in that area include new production facilities for asbestos-cement structural sheet building materials at Pittsburg, California; new industrial insulation production facilities at Watson. California, and a new synthetic silicates plant at Lompoc, California, which is expected to begin production this month.

The Klamath Falls plant will use about 50,000 cords

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