Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Like the chef who eats his own cooking, Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation uses its own fiberglass pipe covering. Here a maintenance man at one of the plants applies weatherproof paint to a section of high pressure steam piping. More than 200 miles of similar pipe covering is now conserving heat in Army cantonments throughout the country

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. A worker in a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation is packaging bats of lightweight, inorganic, firesafe building insulation. Recent findings by the U.S. Bureau of Mines show that adequate home insulation can save over a billion dollars a year in fuel and release transportation facilities required for the war effort

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. In the plant where fiberglass materials are manufactured, as in all other plants where demands for war production are being met, increased maintenance to prevent downtime on vital equipment. Here workmen, high over a glass furnace, are installing equipment to conserve materials

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. To increase productive capacity and meet war demands for fiberglass thermal and acoustical insulation, workmen in a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation are laying firebrick. This is the first step in the construction of one of the huge furnaces required for glass melting

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Feeding the batch into what glass men call "the doghouse"--the charging end of a furnace--this worker is servicing one of the tanks used to manufacture fiberglass thermal and acoustical insulation in a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Like the chef who eats his own cooking, Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation uses its own fiberglass pipe covering. Here a maintenance man at one of the plants applies weatherproof paint to a section of high pressure steam piping. More than 200 miles of similar pipe covering is now conserving heat in Army cantonments throughout the country

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 1732.

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