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Simpson Industries Represents Carney-Pacific Rockwool

Longview, Wash.-simpson Industries of Seattle, sales organization of the Simpson Logging Company, Shelton and Seattle, Wash., has been appointed exclusive Western distributor for Carney-Pacific Rockwool Company products, it has been announced here by Harry E. Carney, Jr., president of Carney-Pacific.

Production got under way the first week of August at the new Carney-Pacific plant at Longview. Products will include Carney Golden Fleece batts for new construction; Carney Silver Fleece, a granulated wool to be blown into existing stru,ctures and Carney Frigid Fleece, for industrial insulation.

Simpson Industries were chosen by Carney-Pacific according to Mr. Carney, because of their wide and well established distribution system in the West and because of high regard in the trade. Simpson Industries' general offices are at 1010 White Bldg., Seattle. Several offices and warehouses are also maintained at strategic points on the Pacific Coast. Their distributors are among the largest of their kind in the West, completely covering their territory.

Simpson Logging Company is one of the oldest and largest wood manufacturing firms in the Pacific Northwest, having been founded in 1895. ft manufactures lumber, plywood, doors, insulation board products and acoustical tile. Simpson ranks as one of the world's largest producers of lumber, plywood and doors. A large and modern plant to manufacture insulating board products and acoustical tile was built at Shelton and put into operation during 1947.

Simpson Industries' decision to take on the CarneyPacific line of insulating materials as an addition to their present line of varied building materials was held due to the high quality of Carney-Pacific products. R. E. Seeley, vice president and general manag'er of Simpson, said that after investigation he found the Carney-Pacific product to be the finest of its kind available to the western building trade.

Some of the widely known officers of Simpson Industries and Simpson Logging Company are William G. Reed, chairman of the board; C. H. Kreienbaum, president; R. E. Seeley, vice president and general manager of the sales division.

The Carney-Pacific Rockwool Company is a State of Washington Corporation, owned jointly by investors in the Pacific Northwest and in Minnesota. Mr. Carngy is the grandson of. P. H. Carney, pioneer Mankato, Minn., industrialist who in 1883 founded the original unit of the Carney Industries at Mankato

A. D. Evans & Co., San Francisco, now represents Cooper-Morgan Lumber Co. of Portland, Oregon, in the Northern California territory from Bakersfield to the Oregon line.

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