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THE HALOLD CO. CONFIDENTIAL NOTE: the Haloid “ompany is engaged in supremely important and secret defense projectsSe ages can naturally not be mentioned. hey explain also certain lacks in the reporte the Haloid Co. was incorporated in New York “ity on j April 18, 1906. From the very start, jts management has shown great quality of initiative and foresight. In 1955, it acquired j the Rectigraph Co. of Rochester NY and at the same time its Canadian subsidiary. e main plant is located in “‘ochester NYe . By the end of last year, the Company employed only 869 peoples C ntrary to most of its larger competitors, who have nation-wide contacts, most of the officers and directors of Haloid Coe live and work in pochestere This industrial center on the Souther shore of Lake Ontario, has a population of 330.000. ‘his is a relatively small city from the American point of viewe Nevertheless, “ochester has the advantage of being mainly populated by skilled workers, who by their standing are not only politicaliy conservative but also adverse to strikes and social unreste The fact that Haloid Coe has not its center in one of the more popular cities has not impaired the company's sales. In the five year period between 1946 and 1951, sales have nearly doubled, rising from 6.7 million to 12.9 million. In 1952, further improvem nt of sales are expected. Consequently the Company's dividents have been increased during the same period from $ .90 a share to $1.40. Haloid originally was specialized in manufacturing photographic papere It still produces paper for photography, especially the ultra-sensitifre one used by expertse Later nevertheles it has become a leader in the photostatic field. its largest sales touay are derived from photocopy paper and equipment. The process consists in an acurate reporduction of writings, drawings, photo= graphy or any print dir-etly on paper, without the help of photographic equipment. it is extensibly used by government agencies, in the various tranches of industry, in Universities and Librariese It is also used very importantly as oscillograms, for seismographs, for detecting oil deposits ana for cardiograms e in 1948, haloid announced a completely new ana revolutionary process, calied Xerography. it consists of taking an image on a sheet by “dry photography", by the use of electrostatic forces ana various chemicals. ‘the picture thus taken can be reperdauced in a matter of minutes. haloid has more than ten patents to protect this process and has, since 1948, been active in producing equipment and supplies for this new techniquee ‘Haloid is spending yearly about half a million dollars on research and has feceived grants from the government for the same purposes ‘these studies have becn mainly undertaken for the creation of new and more efficient technical procedures and machines, especial} 6S. ¢