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Old 6 Road, PO Box 535, Brooklyn, IA 52211-0535 USA |
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Giving
Credit Where Credit is Due |
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I was not afforded the pleasure or the
opportunity to get to know Mary prior to her leaving the
Company. Speaking
for the Quality Control Department, I sincerely thank her for
the hard work she put in to form the foundation of this
department.
We are building as we grow. Several projects are going
on. There is a lab at the United Concrete plant in Elk Run. We
are still in the building stage of the lab in their new
building. All of the testing in the northern ready mix plants
will be coming from this lab. Dave Distler and Dave Demuth from
Manatt’s and Harold Cavalier from United will be taking care
of this area. I
wish to thank Larry Potts, Dave Distler and Harold Cavalier for
their help and input in designing the lab and the help to get it
done. The goal is to be moved into and running tests by next
spring.
The new plant being built in Independence will also house
a lab. This is being designed and built with the help of Bruce
Suckow and Dave Distler.
At this time, we have all the technicians working on
projects. Rita Eichhorst is taking care of the Portable Plant in
Ames, which also includes a QMC project.
Derrick Steffany is doing the grade testing.
Joni Linder is working with the Portable Plant in Gibson,
and will take care of the testing at the Chariton Airport.
Jeff Thompson is keeping the ready mix plants covered in
the southern area. We had help from Jonathan Manatt this summer
doing test cylinders in the ready mix plants.
On the Asphalt side, we uprooted Sally Slaven’s lab
trailer and set it up in Malcom. She has been doing mix design
and plant inspections for the Malcolm plant. During this time,
Donn Eide has graciously had a concrete slab poured at the
Asphalt plant in Newton to park the lab trailer on when it goes
back there. This
should make the trailer level up a lot better.
Larry Clarke and Jeff Jenkins have been traveling with
the portable Asphalt plant, taking care of the inspections for
Steve Armstrong’s projects. During the slow times, Derrick
Steffany has been helping this crew and pushing the profilograph
for them when needed.
I wish to thank the Asphalt technicians, especially Cindy
Dela Rosa in the Ames lab.
We had Troxler send out a team of people to go through
and check our Gyratory machines. They found minor maintenance
problems with three of the four machines. The one Cindy had in
Ames had a more serious problem. Troxler stood behind their
product and replaced the baby Troxler with a bigger new 4140
unit, at no additional cost to Manatt’s. We have had excellent
correlation results since.
Drew Manatt has been helping Cindy in the lab with
testing. Amanda Manatt has worked in the lab in Malcom with
Sally.
In closing, I want to thank all of our technicians along
with Dave Schau (WQI), Gary Netser (LL Pelling), Vicki Williams
(Norris Asphalt), Larry Wishon (Metro) and Doug Clements and his
team (Construction Materials Testing) for all of their help and
advice this year. Continue
to have a safe year!
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