Union Carbide Standard Specifications for Thermal Insulation Application and Materials, Including Asbestos-Containing Insulation (1966-1976 loose-leaf pages)

Pages from Union Carbide's Standard Specifications for thermal insulation, covering application of cellular glass and urethane foam insulation and specifications for individual insulation and accessory materials. The pages sent carry revision dates from July 1966 to May 1976. Several material specifications call for asbestos, including calcium silicate blended with asbestos fibers, sprayable amosite and crocidolite asbestos blends, asbestos cement and asbestos paper.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Specification 10-H, 10-HSS: application of cellular glass insulation to equipment and piping, scope and materials (October, year cut off)
• Pages 2-8: Specifications for individual insulation materials (Nos. 32-H and 32-L, 37, 39, 38, 25, 31, 40-J, 41-H and 42-H); Nos. 25, 40-J, 41-H and 42-H involve asbestos fibers
• Pages 9-13: Specifications for individual accessory materials (cushioning blankets, cements, straps, adhesives, sealers, etc.), including asbestos cement and asbestos paper items; start of weather barrier mastic specification
• Pages 14-18: Weather barriers: mastic test requirements, stainless steel jackets, treated carbon steel jackets, other accessories
• Page 19: Tracing accessories (air convection and heat transfer cement tracing systems)
• Pages 21-28: Specification 10-B: application of cellular glass insulation to building roofs, walls, ceilings and floors, with figures
• Pages 29-40: Specification 10-H, 10-HSS application details: curved surfaces, flanges, expansion joints, vessel legs and skirts, piping, fittings and valves, with figures
• Pages 230-234: Specification 43-H, 43-HSS: application of sprayed urethane foam insulation, flanges, vessel legs and skirts, weather barrier

People and organizations

• Chemicals and Plastics Operations Division (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• American Gilsonite Co (named)
• Johns-Manville (named)
• Kaiser (named)
• Olefins Division (named)
• Plastics Division (named)
• Silicones Division (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Amosite: Brown Asbestos and the US Navy · Crocidolite: Blue Asbestos, the Deadliest Type · Johns-Manville.

About this copy

This is document UC-4915 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 234 pages.