Customer Call Report on International Building Products Inc. (Asbestos-Cement Sheet) with Prescott Letter, Ontario Research Foundation Reports on Atlas Fibre, and a September 1982 Follow-up Call Report (1982)

The exhibit opens with a Calidria customer call report dated April 6, 1982, on a visit to International Building Products Inc. of New Orleans, an asbestos-cement sheet maker interested in buying the King City plant and in Calidria fiber. Attached are the company chairman's February 1982 letter to Union Carbide, three Ontario Research Foundation reports (1977 and 1979) on Atlas Asbestos fibre, and a September 28, 1982 call report on the same customer about a production trial.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-3: Metals Division Calidria customer call report, International Building Products Inc., call date April 6, 1982 (R. E. Byrne & T. P. Norris)
• Pages 4-5: Letter of February 11, 1982 from Gene Prescott, Chairman, International Building Products, to H. Soisson, Union Carbide, on interest in acquiring the asbestos fiber mine in California
• Pages 6-10: Ontario Research Foundation Report AS 403-77, 'Evaluation of Atlas Fibre AZ-8', R. A. Kuntze, April 12, 1977
• Pages 11-15: Tables I-II (Bauer-McNett and T&N classifier results) and micrograph figures for Report AS 403-77
• Pages 16-18: Ontario Research Foundation Report NMS 459-79-1, 'Asbestos-Cement Properties of Wet Rod-Milled Atlas Asbestos', S. J. Thorndyke, April 17, 1979, with data table
• Pages 19-22: Ontario Research Foundation Report NMS 459-79-2, 'Asbestos-Cement Properties of Milled Atlas Asbestos', S. J. Thorndyke and D. J. Pinchin, June 22, 1979, with data table
• Page 23: Calidria customer call report, International Building Products, call date 9/28/82 (G. L. Dickson & T. P. Norris), on Ontario Research Foundation testing of Calidria samples and a requested production trial
• Pages 24-25: Second copy of the February 11, 1982 Prescott letter to H. Soisson, with receipt stamps

People and organizations

From R. E. Byrne & T. P. Norris (Salesmen, Western region (first call report)) to WCT; GML; REB; JEW; GLD (copy list, initials only).

• Metals Division (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Atlas Asbestos Company (Coalinga, California) (named)
• Carey (named)
• CertainTeed (named)
• Conwed Corporation (named)
• Corporate Acquisitions and Divestitures Department (named)
• International Building Products Inc (named)
• Johns-Manville (named)
• National Gypsum Co. (named)
• Ontario Research Foundation (named)
• OSHA (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos Cement Pipe, Transite, and Marinite · Calidria · California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · CertainTeed · Johns-Manville · Louisiana Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Minnesota Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · OSHA.

About this copy

This is document UC-250 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 25 pages.