P. H. Day Minutes of the Gasket Team Meeting on Purchased Goods Quality Program, with Attached C&P Asbestos Phase-Out Recommendation (1987)

Minutes of a March 5, 1987 Gasket Team meeting of Union Carbide's purchased goods quality program, which note West Virginia gasket spending and an anticipated phase-out of asbestos gasket materials. Attached are expenditure estimates, a Gulf Coast gasket expenditure list, October 1986 and September 1986 memos, a September 1986 asbestos regulatory update, a draft C&P program to phase out asbestos-containing materials, and a gasket flow chart.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-3: Internal correspondence from the Purchasing Department, March 16, 1987, with minutes of the March 5, 1987 Gasket Team meeting
• Pages 4-5: Estimated gasket, gasket material and packing expenditures for the next two years by plant and construction location, and a dense tabular attachment (OCR garbled)
• Page 6: Exhibit B: Gulf Coast plants gasket expenditures, 8/1/82 through 12/31/85, by commodity, vendor and contract
• Page 7: J. E. Sanders memo, October 16, 1986, transmitting the recommended C&P asbestos phase-out program
• Page 8: C. C. Neely to J. E. Sanders, September 30, 1986, transmitting the final draft of the C&P asbestos phase-out program (page 8 only; continuation not included)
• Page 9: T. E. Banning memo, September 5, 1986, Asbestos Update (union support of proposed EPA ban, OSHA limit)
• Pages 10-12: Draft Recommended C&P Program dated 9/29/86 to phase out use of asbestos-containing materials in the work place
• Page 13: Flow chart of gasket utilization from specification through installation, dated 3/5/87

People and organizations

From P. H. Day (Purchasing Department, Technical Center (author of minutes, inferred from the initials 'PHO/cw' and the signature block 'P.H. Day B-721-3989')) to D. L. Kurle; J. A. Means; S. S. Murphree; R. L. Newman; J. R. Ruddle; C. S. Tyson; M. K. Wisman.

• P. H. Day (author)
• D. L. Kurle (recipient)
• S. S. Murphree (recipient)
• Purchasing Department (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Central Engineering (named)
• Engineering, Manufacturing, and Technology Services (Union Carbide) (named)
• Lamons (named)
• R & W (named)
• Sepco Corp (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos Gaskets and Mechanical Packing · Louisiana Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Texas Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · West Virginia Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-2885 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 13 pages. Production numbers UCC 015879 to UCC 015891.