Application of New Product :Halves Finishing Time

The largest single application of a new product that at the same time provides penetrating waterproofing action and surface color to building surfaces has been completed.

The $I0-million Sun-Maid Raisin Growers plant at Kingsburg, near Fresno, California, is the biggest construction project to yet use the new Thompson's Color Water Seal, a product introduced to both con- struction and consumer fields earlier this year.

The last of more than 1400 gallons of the pigmented waterproofing compound was applied to the plant exterior of the world's foremost processor of raisins during the last fortnight.

Architect Paul Harris, of the firm of Walter Wagner & Partners, Fresno, called for a custom color ("Desert Sand") on the

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concrete panels. Thompson's Clear Water Seal was used on the decorative exposed aggregate panels.

The tte* plant officially opened late in October. It is on a ?3-acre site on Highway 99. The plant itself contains some 14 acres of under-roof area.

Thompson's Color Water Seal is a de' velopment of the E. A. Thompson Co. lab' oratories and is an addition to the Thomp' son line of waterproofing, curing and bond' breaking compounds.

[1 waterproofs and decorates at the same time. The Sun-Maid Raisin Growers plant had two applications of the compound.

One of its prime advantages is economy in time and labor costs, since two important steps are taken with one application of the dual-purpose product.

General contractor of the Sun-Maid project is L. E. Dixon, with headquarters at Kingsburg. Painting contractors are Peterson and Harris, Fresno.

Thompson's Color Water Seal is avail' able in custom colors which can be easily mixed by using Thompson's Color Water Seal base and the selected pigments'

It is manufactured by the firm that first introduced Thompson's Water Seal to the market in L947. Headquarters of the E' A' Thompson Co., Inc. are at the Merchandise Mart. San Francisco.

Informational material on the new prod' uct is readily available from the Thompson Company.

Monthty Tumber Facts

Busy sawmills of the Douglas fir region have ulrno"t caught up with last year's production, turning out 4l percent more io-bet in Septernber than in strike-hampered July. And orders last month were third highest for the Year'

These are highlights of the September summary issued by the West Coast Lumber' men's Association, which also ofiers these comparisons:

Production. at 6,007,658,000 board feet just 41,000,000 behind last year but 3.2 percent off the past five'year average; orders, down 3'7 percent from last year, but above this year's output by a slim 22,644,0M feet and uP last month bY 22 percent over August.

Cargo shipments to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are down another 15 percent this year from last, to a total through September of 586,095,000 feet, a further measure of gains being enlarged by Canadian imports.

W'ater shipments to California at the same time rose 17.4 percent, indicating continued vigor in construction. Export business is up this year by 22 percent, while local sales are down 15 percent.