104 The desire for diversification was reflected in the 1972 hiring of Roger Fair from the pharmaceutical industry. The company’s new Chemical Process and Sales Engineer achieved his biggest sale in 1979 when he obtained an order for 35 link-suspended under-driven polished stainless steel centrifuges for two of Eli Lilly & Company’s pharmaceutical plants. Not all of the attempts at diversification were rousing successes. 1974 saw the development of the Sludge-A-Tron, a solid bowl centrifugal designed to remove sediment from municipal, industrial, and institutional wastewater. While it worked, other decanting methods were more cost-efficient, and only two Sludge-A-Trons were installed. Another basket centrifugal was created to de-water shredded lettuce, but only one unit was produced. 104 above: Gordon Comstock working on a 48x30 Quad Monocut Discharger CHAPTER 8