Henry Zac Carter, president of Avondale Shipyards, has announced that the corporation's Standard Paint and Varnish Division will be expanded to offer high quality paints and service to a much wider area in the marine industry.
George T. Bacalakis has been appointed general manager of sales for the New York district with offices at 29 Broadway. In this capacity he will handle the promotion of sales and distribution of all paint products manufactured by Standard Paint and Varnish. Mr. Bacalakis is well acquainted with the shipping community in that he was president of the G. M. Livanos Shipping Corporation from 1958 to 1964 and head of his own company since December of 1964.
Con Bacalakis, formerly with Hempel's Marine Paints, Inc., will head the sales force concentrating initially on supplies throughout the North American continent and eventually expanding to all prominent ports of the world.
Jack B. Valley, vice-president of Avondale Shipyards and manager of the Standard Paint Division, has planned this new expansion as part of a progressive program emphasizing service along with a quality product.
According to J. Melton Garrett, Avondale's executive vice-president in charge of divisions, the corporation's Service Foundry Division will increase its facilities for the manufacture of bronze propeller castings. The addition, to be located on the River Road at Waggaman about 3 miles above Avondale's main plant, will be capable of producing bronze propeller castings up to 30 feet in diameter and having a weight of as much as 10,000 pounds.
The need for the addition was instigated by Service Foundry receiving a contract to furnish propeller castings for the 11 LASH ships presently being built at Avondale. These propellers will be engineered and machined by Avondale's Harvey Division.