J. T. Kelly to R. L. Folkman Transmitting the Asbestos Strategy Package for the King City Calidria Business (1980)

A cover memo from J. T. Kelly of Financial Control transmits the latest asbestos strategy package, which assumes an OSHA TLV of no more than 1.0 fiber per cc and estimates the cost of a 0.5 fiber limit at King City. The attached slides cover the short fiber asbestos and viscosity control businesses, competitors and market shares, health effects, regulatory outlook, finances, third party liability (warnings, lawsuits) and strategy options, and recommend constant capacity.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Kelly cover memo to R. L. Folkman transmitting the asbestos strategy package (April 28, 1980)
• Pages 2-7: Industry and business definitions, worldwide asbestos supply/demand, King City operation, competitors and market shares
• Pages 8-10: Industry growth prospects and industry profile charts for short fiber asbestos and viscosity control agents
• Pages 11-13: Asbestos health effects, estimated regulatory impacts, product directions
• Pages 14-19: Financial summary 1975-1979 and competitive position and profile charts
• Page 20: Chart largely unreadable in OCR (sideways/inverted)
• Pages 21-23: Key external assumptions, current direction, sales history and construction expenditures
• Pages 24-29: Strategy selection and assumptions, unit abandonment, risk adjustments, financial summary tables for the strategies
• Pages 30-33: Third party liability: classes of plaintiffs, warnings to customers, lawsuits (two near-identical versions)
• Pages 34-35: Recommended strategy, annual check points and action plans

People and organizations

From J. T. Kelly (Financial Control, Metals Division) to R. L. Folkman; W. G. Alesio (copy); G. R. Bailey (copy); R. W. Rebholz (copy); F. J. Shortsleeve (copy).

• JoAnn Kelley (author)
• R. L. Folkman (recipient)
• W. G. Alesio (copied)
• G. R. Bailey (copied)
• R. W. Rebholz (copied)
• F. J. Shortsleeve (copied)
• Metals Division (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Atlas Asbestos Company (Coalinga, California) (named)
• Baker Castor Oil Co (named)
• Cabot (named)
• Carey (named)
• Degussa (named)
• Johns-Manville (named)
• National Lead (named)
• OSHA (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Calidria · California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Fiber Counting · Johns-Manville · OSHA · Threshold Limit Value (TLV).

About this copy

This is document UC-3592 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 35 pages. Production numbers UCC 008186 to UCC 008220.