Calidria Asbestos Product Applications and 1978 Domestic Market Share Analysis (1978-1979)

Eleven-page set of tables and market summaries on Calidria asbestos. It lists product grades (SG-100, RG-144 and others) with their applications, gives 1978 domestic tonnage, sales and share by application area, and gives market-share estimates against competitors for roofing, coatings, plastics, adhesives, sealants, polyester laminates and drilling muds. It ends with a short-fiber and viscosity-control competitor table and a map page.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Table of Calidria product grades and their applications
• Page 2: 1978 Calidria domestic applications areas: tons, $M and percent of total, asbestos vs. non-asbestos industry
• Pages 3-4: Domestic market detail for roofing compounds, coatings and compounds, and plastics, with competitors and shares
• Page 5: Table of Calidria participation in typical domestic asbestos markets in 1978, initialed REB 4/30/79
• Page 6: Calidria markets that are not typical asbestos (viscosity control): adhesives, sealants, polyester laminates, coatings
• Pages 7-9: Market detail and competitor shares for adhesives, sealants, polyester laminates and coatings
• Page 10: Competitors and market share tables for short fiber asbestos and viscosity control, U.S., Japan, Europe
• Page 11: Map page of California locations, mostly illegible in OCR

People and organizations

• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Atlas Asbestos Company (Coalinga, California) (named)
• Baker Castor Oil Co (named)
• Bell Asbestos Mines (named)
• Cabot (named)
• Carey (named)
• Degussa (named)
• Johns-Manville (named)
• Modern Plastics (named)
• National Lead (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Calidria · California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Johns-Manville.

About this copy

This is document UC-2640 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 11 pages. Production numbers UCC 005305 to UCC 005315.