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'; Foley and Van Beckum Appointed

Tacoma, 'Wash., Oct. l4-Formation of Silvacon Sales with J. P. Foley as manag'er was announced today by C. H' Ingram, vice-president and general manager of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Tacoma. Also announced was the appointment of W. G. Van Beckum as Manager, Tech' nical Service for Silvacon Sales'

, Foley, who will be headquartered in Longview, Washington, assumes merchandising responsibilities for Silvacon products and will direct further introduction- of these bark-derived new materials to domestic manufacturers and processors. Sales and technical serviciag of Silvacon have previously been handled through Weyerhaeuser's Develop''ment Department at Longview, which created the products , and the processes and plant to produce them.

Announced in June, 1947, Silvacon is the generic trade ;name for products derived from Douglas fir bark. through the isolation and purification of the naturally occurring , cork, the fibers from hard tissue and the powder from soft ' tissue. These products, with individual chemical and physical attributes, have. found increasing utility in plastics, adhesives, chemicals, horticulture, rubber compounds, oil well drilling fluids, insecticides and magnesite flooring.

Developments now progressing in many industries rely upon the versatility of Silvacon and its unlimited supply, uniform quality and favorable economics. Organization of Silvacon Sales, with adequate technical service for all users, is a necessary step to permit the Development Department to concentrate on additional new Silvacon productd obtained through formulation or remanufacture.

Foley has a 2O-year background in the lumber and build' ing materials business. ln t937 he joined the Wood Conversion Company at Cloquet, Minnesota, as. sales representative in the southern New Engl4pd area, after being manager for nine years of a retail lumber and building materials yard at Taunton, Massachusetts. During his ten years with Wood Conversion, poley' was on leave for three years as engineering officer wiqh the 8th Air Force, U.S.A.A.F., in England, with the rank of captain upon his release in 1945. He joiried Weyerhaeuser Timber Company's Development Department in L947 to serve ds district representative in the eastern United States, introducing Silvacon,commercially.

In line with these expanded selling activities, W. G. Van Beckum was appointed Manager,'Technical Service, Silvacon Sales. Van Beckum has an advanced degree in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, where he-held a fellowship at the United States Forest Products Laboratory, sponsored by the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI).

Van Beckum in 1939 joined the Wood Conversion Company at Cloquet, Minnesota, in -charge of Chemical Development work. He transferred to the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Development Department, Longview, Washington, in 1942 as Chief of the Applied Chemistry Section. In 1946 he was appointed Assistant Managerof the Development Department, which post he has held up until the time of his latest appointment.'

As Manager of Technical Service, Vail Beckum brings to his new position six years of experience in the development of Silvacon and other new fortist.products. Manu-