T. P. Norris Customer Call Reports on Polaroid Corporation's Asbestos/Teflon Packing and Photographic Dyes (1984-1985)

Three customer call reports by salesman T. P. Norris on Polaroid Corporation (Waltham, MA), contact Tom Izod of New Product Development, about use of asbestos in photographic dyes. The 1984 reports describe an asbestos/Teflon packing in a homogenizer that improved the finished dyes and Izod's testing to learn why. The May 1985 report states Polaroid was proceeding with a pure silicate instead and the account was to be dropped.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Call report, Polaroid, call dated 05/08/85: Polaroid switching to pure silicate; drop, no further calls
• Page 2: Call report, Polaroid, call dated 05/15/84: initial call and RG-100 sample follow-up; asbestos/Teflon packing in dye homogenizer; handwritten 7/5/84 and 8/7/84 notes
• Page 3: Call report, Polaroid, call dated August 7, 1984: Izod not seen; his R&D continues on what asbestos adds to the product

People and organizations

From T. P. Norris (Salesman, Metals Division - Calidria Asbestos) to GML (copy recipient (initials only)); JEW (copy recipient (initials only)); JTK (copy recipient (initials only)).

• Tom P. Norris (author)
• Metals Division (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• EPA (named)
• Linde Division (named)
• OSHA (named)

Related pages

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

About this copy

This is document UC-730 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 3 pages.