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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-01-02, Page 143! 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). k' ONE OF THE NEW machines introduced into the Stanley Door. Systems' production underine gone 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) of door manufacturing. ' • • !p; 1 t 11 fi 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. is am. Mallon. customizing plants in done W' .The head 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, B.0 , 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 1 1 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 BURKE ELECTRIC ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES MOTOR SALES AND SERVICE ,r , .. AkNrIT.Ixs WINGHAM • R SYSTEMS L MANUFACTURERS OF Electronic Garage Door Openers * Sta-Tru Steel Entrance Doors * R�sideDtiaI Garage Doors of Steel, Wood, and Fibreglass 0 V!y 357°2450