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Press, Volume C, Issue 29467, 20 March 1961, Page 21

120 sq ft Of Board A Minute imiii . ■ This week a brand new 50.000 sq. ft, factory alongside the railway at Opawa will go into regular production of wall- ' A ‘- board. turning out 120 sq. ' —or roughly j 15 million sq. ft. a year. The factory is the South Island plant of New Zealand Wallboards, Ltd., manufacturers of Gibrai- ' . tar Board. Thirty men working on ■-* IBb a continuous production line will turn raw plaster 'JStfel ’ fe and huge rolls of paper WyLajh,. into wallboard sheets in «■•■'>'-'■•« a two-hour process. Their work will help ensure that expanding building needs in the South Island will be met. Just inside the new Foamed plaster is across the speed table, on plant, plastermen feed then spread on to the to the transfer table and raw plaster from a stor- making table and then on to the tipple hoist, age bunker on to a con- through rollers, seal- The hoist carries the veyor that takes it to a ing it inside wallboard sheets into the eight-tiered mixer> paper. drier for the last stage of „ , On the other side of the the process, taking about On the way the con- roUerB the board _3. Bin 1J hours. veyor —called a wergh and , continuous Mnvin _ thrn „ oh thA feeder—weighs the plas- „ Moving through the ter feeding a regulated ro ?^ s a on S the drier the sheets are de- ’ .• . regulated 350 ft main conveyor belt i ivprp<l rpndv for stacking amount into the mixer. tivered ready tor stacking to the cut-off knives. on to fork . llft pallets. In the mixer the plaster There the knives cut Pallet loads of Wallis mixed with water, the board into sheets to board are then stacked in foaming ingredients, and builders’ requirements. the warehouse ready for other raw materials. Next the sheets move shipment by road or rail. f ‘ J. "| I 35 Swgg **" -- v k, * i . ■ ■ s . ; • . - ■ . ■ ■ ■ -rv j S Machine operator Jack Levalliant (top) checks a new roll of wallboard paper before feeding it on to the making machine. Measuring the blades of the cut-off knives (above) is cut-off man Jim Olin. These knives cut the wallboard into sheets to builders’ requirements. Warehouse foreman Harry Simpson and Stan Cooke (left) lift wallboard sheets from the drier at the end of the two-hour process. Fork-lift driver Fred Mummery (below) stacks wallboard sheets in the factory warehouse. Fork-lift pallets, used for easier handling of the wallboard, keep down handling costs.