Union Carbide Invoices, Shipment Memoranda and Special Shipment Requests for Asbestos Sent to W. R. Grace & Co. (1965–1976)

A set of Union Carbide sales and shipping records for asbestos going mostly to W. R. Grace & Co. units. It includes customer sales record cards, invoices, memoranda of shipment, and internal requests for special shipment or special order. The records run from about 1965 to 1976 and cover Calidria grades such as RG-144, RG-244 and RG-600, as well as earlier experimental asbestos.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-2: Customer sales record cards for W. R. Grace units in Bartow, FL (Marco Div.) and Linden, NJ, with the Linden card partly blacked out
• Pages 3-9: Union Carbide invoices to W. R. Grace & Co. units (Washington Research Center in Clarksville, MD; Cambridge, MA; Owensboro, KY), 1965 and other dates. Largely illegible except pages 5 and 6.
• Page 10: Invoice (N.Y. sales copy) for high-purity opened asbestos fiber shipped from King City to Grace Washington Research Center, Clarksville, MD
• Page 11: Memorandum of shipment, Niagara Falls R&D, one fiber drum of asbestos to W. R. Grace Washington Research Center
• Pages 12-19: Invoices and invoice copies to W. R. Grace Co., Marco Div., Linden, NJ and Bartow, FL, including Calidria Resin Grade 244 (1970)
• Pages 20-21: Memoranda of shipment (UPS and parcel post) of asbestos and RG-244 samples to Grace in Jamaica, NY and Germany
• Pages 22-23: Invoice dated December 6, 1974 to W. R. Grace Industrial Chemicals Group for 1400 lbs RG-600 Calidria asbestos, $350.00 (two copies)
• Page 24: Request for special order, 12/14/74, to invoice shipping cost of RG-600 to Grace
• Page 25: Memorandum of shipment of 35# RG-600 sample to W. R. Grace, London
• Pages 26-27: Invoice dated March 12, 1975 to W. R. Grace Industrial Chemicals Group for 350 lbs RG-600 Calidria asbestos, $88.00 (two copies)
• Page 28: Memorandum of shipment of boxes of RG-600 Calidria asbestos by air freight to Grace (destination partly garbled)
• Page 29: Memorandum of shipment of RG-244 Calidria asbestos samples by UPS to Grafco Colloids Corporation, Sharon, PA
• Pages 30-33: File copies of invoices for asbestos to W. R. Grace, Marco Div., Linden, NJ
• Pages 34-36: Requests for special shipment (Research and Development Dept.) of asbestos materials to Grace
• Page 37: Memorandum of shipment of one gallon Paraplex P43 to W. R. Grace, Cambridge, MA
• Page 38: Request for special shipment of Paraplex P43 to Grace, Cambridge, MA
• Page 39: Request for special order, Feb. 21, 1975, to invoice shipping cost of RG-600 asbestos to Grace
• Page 40: UPS memorandum of shipment of RG-144 and RG-244 lab samples to W. R. Grace, Baltimore, MD (stamped 6-18-76)
• Pages 41-47: Not provided for cataloging
• Page 48: Memorandum of shipment of RG-600 Calidria asbestos sample to Grace Industrial Chemicals, European Division, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Page 49: Request for special shipment (Technology Dept.) to Grace Industrial Chemicals, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Page 50: Memorandum of shipment of 26 bottle samples of Calidria asbestos to W. R. Grace Ltd., London
• Page 51: Memorandum of shipment (Emery Air Freight) of RG-600 Calidria asbestos sample to W. R. Grace Ltd., London
• Page 52: No text provided; content unknown

People and organizations

To W. R. Grace & Co. (customer; Marco Division (Bartow, FL and Linden, NJ), Industrial Chemicals Group (Cambridge, MA), Washington Research Center (Clarksville, MD), and other Grace offices).

• Mining and Metals Division (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Research and Development Department (named)
• U.S. Department of Labor (named)
• W.R. Grace (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Calidria · California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Florida Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Maryland Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Massachusetts Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · New York Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · W.R. Grace.

About this copy

This is document UC-4112 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 52 pages. Production numbers X405608 to X405637.