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Page 2—The Wingham Advance -Times„ Thurs., January 2, 1975
STANLEY DOOR SYSTEMS employee Brian Adams welds a garage door frame with an
electricwelder. The Wingham plant has just undergone a substantial renovation job
which has upgraded painting facilities and added new presses to the production line. The
company, is known nationwide for its construction of steel, wood and fibr(Staffglasi Photo).
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ONE OF THE NEW machines introduced into the Stanley Door. Systems' production underine
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is this hinge -notch -lock -hole punch and form machine. The plant has recently 9
an expansion program`and hopes to improve its already excellent reputation inSttafffield Photo)
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YOU CAN DEPEND ON "DOORS BY STANLEY" FOR
QUALITY, WORKMANSHIP AND DURABILITY.
Stanley Door
continues expansion
Expansion has been a key
phrase around Stanley Door Sys-
tems Limited in the past two
years and "future expansion ii: in
the planning stages," says Alton
B. Adams, plant manager, who
has been with the firm since 1956.
In 1973 an" addition of '12,000
square feet was made to the plant
at a cost of about $100,000. In-
creased space became necessary
for more storage room and for
specialized equipment which was
needed when a nej
'a of goods
was introduced e Sta-Tru
door. This new eqent includ-
ed a foaming machine and • a
heated platen press. Also, press
brakes, punch presses and a
rolling mill have been added to
the factory. Nineteen seventy-
four saw the installation of a
semi -automated line to produce
steel°section doors. The estimat-
ed cost of this new equipment is
about $75,000.
Conn., and became known as
Stanley -Berry Limited. In 1972
the name was changed to Stanley
Door Systems Limited. The pres-
ent list of manufactured products
includes: steel garage doors
(both one-piece and sectional),
fibreglass garage doors, wooden
garage doors, automatic garage.
door openers, Sta-Tru house qa-
trance doors and hardware.
Basically, all the manufactur-
ing for Stanley Door in Canada is
Wingham.
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customizing plants in
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office in M There are
small
Furthermore, in 1973, Stanley
Door installed its own electrical
sub -station. It is now buying
power from Ontario Hydro rather
than from the town itself because
of a high concentration of spot
welding. Formerly, this opera-
tion morbentarily reduced elec-
trical power within the town. At
the same time equipment was
changed from 220 volt to 550 yolt.
However, according to Mr.
Adams, storage space for fin-
ished products is tight; the pres-
ent premises are filled up. Rack-
ing is put up with fork lift trucks
to utilize all available space. With
the last addition, which included
the new line of Sta-Tru doors,
more space is needed for the new
product and because of increased
capacity.
The plant now consists of 55,000
square feet of manufacturing
space, record progress consider-
ing that Berry Door Co. Ltd.
started production of one-piece
doors in the spring of 1956 with
17,000 square feet of space. Glen
Berry of Birmingham, Mich.,
selected this location because. of
Gordon Buchanan, a Wingham
businessman. Originally, about
35 people were employed here.
Berry operated the plant from
1956-1965 when it was sold to
Stanley 'Works of New Britain,,
STANLEY DO
Calgary and Montreal where
resident salesmen are also lo-
cated. Stanley Door of [Kingham
has markets from Victoria,
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to St. John's, Nfld. tanley Works
itself has factories -all over the
world.
In the peak season, 125 people
are employed at the plant. The
past year has been the heaviest,
with the number of employees up
25 per cent. Usually the bulk of
business is from May to Decem-
ber, with a tapering -off and thus
a cutback in December. But last
year .was different, said Mr.
Adams. Production was at a
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higher rate than normal. Cus-
tomers were bt ;ilding ° like
,crazy", The plant manager feels
an uncertainty about this winter.
He doesn't know what to expect.
Mr. Adams estimated that
about 5,per cent of his employ-
ees comeirom town and most of
the others from within a 12 -mile
radius. The office and the super-
visory people are also local. He
admitted that he finds the labor
market a little tight- However,
since 1973 the plant has been run-
ning part of a second shift. Even-
tually, he feels, there will be two
complete shifts running. In this
way max a 1► e will be made
of the new sqUiPMent,
'Using the SeY Poor factory,
as an example, Mr. Adams et
platned that raw materials are
hauled into Whlgham and the fin.
fished products are shipped out.
Many of these products: are sent
back into the Toronto area. Re
feels that increasing freight costs
make it very difficult for: small
businesses to locate here.
But history_indicates that the
Stanley floor factory has shown a
record of growth, expansion and
increased ..productivity since its
,founding in, 19.66.
BURKE ELECTRIC
is pleased to be part of the
expansion of industry in the
Town of Wingham. STANLEY
DOOR SYSTEMS LIMITED is an-
other industry which has ex-
panded, and Burke Electric
assisted in that expansion
program.
Burke Electric installed the sub -station at STANLEY
DOOR SYSTEMS LIMITED, and were responsible for
the compete plant electrical conversion of equipment
from 220 volt=3 phase to 550 volt -3 phase
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