Union Carbide Files on Silane-Treated Calidria Asbestos and Dresser Industries: Agreement, Test Memo, Pricing, Call Reports (1977-1979)

A set of Union Carbide documents from 1977 to 1979 on silane-treated asbestos and Dresser Industries. It includes a proposed evaluation and supply agreement, a laboratory memo on silane asbestos in oil-base drilling muds, a price schedule for Calidria Silatherm Pellets, a cost estimate, four copies of a Dresser customer call report, and two copies of an internal memo about the call. The call reports and memo describe Dresser's purchase of RG-600 and its plan to remove asbestos labeling from its PC-OTA additive.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Letter, D. F. Braun to J. McCaskill (Dresser), May 3, 1978, forwarding a proposed agreement on Silane Treated Asbestos
• Page 2: Internal memo, D. F. Braun to M. E. Elling, June 16, 1978, on the signed Dresser secrecy agreement and a 50 pound pelletized sample
• Pages 3-4: Letter agreement, T. T. Szabo to Dresser Industries, April 29, 1978, on evaluation and supply of Silane Treated Calidria Asbestos (SSX), with signature block
• Pages 5-7: Business Confidential Memorandum, T. R. Malone, Oct. 5, 1977, on silane treated asbestos in oil base drilling muds
• Pages 8-10: Attachments to the Malone memo: Table I of viscosity data and Figures 1 and 2 (thermal stability graphs)
• Page 11: Memo to M. E. Elling, June 13, 1978, assigning product code 17425 to Calidria Silatherm Pellets and proposing a price schedule
• Pages 12-13: Letter, R. G. Woolery to W. C. Thurber, on speculative operating cost of silane-treated leached asbestos (Dresser process), with cost table
• Pages 14-15: Metals Division customer call report, Dresser Industries, Houston (first copy, with annotations)
• Pages 16-17: Customer call report, Dresser Industries (second copy)
• Pages 18-19: Customer call report, Dresser Industries (third copy)
• Pages 20-21: Customer call report, Dresser Industries (fourth copy)
• Pages 22-23: Internal memo, RWR to FJS, March 1979, on John Myers's Dresser visit and silane asbestos (first copy, with handwriting)
• Pages 24-25: Internal memo, RWR to FJS, March 2, 1979 (second copy of same memo)

People and organizations

From Dean F. Braun (Account Representative, Chemicals and Plastics); T. T. Szabo (Vice President and General Manager, Performance Chemicals & Polymers Division); T. R. Malone (Research and Development Department, Chemicals and Plastics); R. G. Woolery (Mineral Products Technology, Metals Division); John L. Myers (Salesman, Metals Division (named on call reports)); RWR (initials only; author of the March 1979 memo) to James McCaskill (Dresser Industries, Houston); M. E. Elling (New York 30); W. C. Thurber (Metals Division, Union Carbide Corp., New York); Dresser Industries, Inc. (addressee of the April 29, 1978 agreement letter); FJS (initials only; addressee of the March 1979 memo).

• Dean F. Braun (author)
• T. R. Malone (author)
• John L. Myers (author)
• T. T. Szabo (author)
• Robert G. Woolery (author)
• M. E. Elling (recipient)
• James McCaskill (recipient)
• William C. Thurber (recipient)
• Metals Division (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Dresser Industries (named)
• EPA (named)
• Mining and Metals Division (named)
• OSHA (named)
• Performance Chemicals and Polymers Division (named)
• Research and Development Department (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Calidria · EPA · OSHA · Texas Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-3038 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 25 pages. Production numbers UCC 001671 to UCC 001695.