69 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 4
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 25, 1974
W. C. Thurber to J. W. Rawlings, A Very Preliminary Look at Union Carbide's 1980 Asbestos Business (1974)
…C. Thurber to J. W. Rawlings, with an attached table, giving a preliminary outlook for Union Carbide's asbestos business through 1980. It goes through the markets for Calidria fiber (floor tile, drilling mud, elastomers, coatings…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 3, 1974
W. C. Thurber to J. L. Myers on Estimating Union Carbide's 1980 Share of Asbestos Markets (1974)
…the current and future size of available asbestos markets arrived, Myers and his staff should estimate the share of those markets Union Carbide could expect by 1980. The estimates were to be broken down by market…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 3, 1974
W. C. Thurber to J. L. Myers on Estimating Union Carbide's Share of Future Asbestos Markets by 1980 (1974)
…Myers at Niagara Falls, New York. It asks Myers and his staff to estimate the share of the asbestos markets Union Carbide could expect to hold by 1980, once G. Welh's report on the size…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 4, 1975
Exhibit UC-5204: Union Carbide Correspondence and Shipping Record on RG-244 and RG-144 Calidria Samples Sent to Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (1974-1975)
…RG-244 sample, and a planned testing program on spraying asbestos in California Union Carbide memorandum of shipment of a 1.5 lb sample of RG-14 [as OCR'd] Calidria asbestos to Dr. Mary Wolff…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1977
Union Carbide Asbestos 5-Year Plan (1978-82) with Calidria Sales Forecasts and W. C. Thurber Forecast Memo (1977)
Compilation of handwritten and typed planning papers for Union Carbide's Calidria asbestos business. It includes handwritten financial and tonnage forecast tables, a typed 'Asbestos 5-Year Plan (1978-82)' narrative, a Calidria sales-by-market…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 19, 1974
Harry R. Mason (NY Board of Standards and Appeals) to W. C. Thurber Acknowledging Union Carbide's Endorsement of Industrial Code Rule 12 Amendment, with Thurber's Feb. 14 Letter (1974)
…and Appeals, to W. C. Thurber acknowledging receipt of his letter Feb. 14, 1974 letter from W. C. Thurber, Union Carbide, to the Board endorsing the proposed amendment to Industrial Code Rule 12 (asbestos air limit)
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 12, 1973
W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt on Implementation of Tuck-In Sleeve Packaging for Asbestos Bags (1973)
Internal memo from W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt saying the present asbestos bags let small quantities of material dribble from the fill hole, creating dust and clean-up problems in customers' plants. It reports preliminary work on tuck-in sleeves and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 22, 1974
W. C. Thurber to E. R. Couture Transmitting the Executed 1974 Calidria Supply Agreement with Conwed Corporation, with the Agreement (1974)
…reproduced, partly obscured duplicate of the March 22, 1974 transmittal on letterhead Agreement of January 1, 1974 between Union Carbide Corporation and Conwed Corporation for Calidria Asbestos High Purity Pellets (terms 1-13 and signature block)
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 14, 1974
W. C. Thurber to Norman J. Hearn on the California Asbestos Spraying Act and Proposed Exemptions (1974)
Letter from W. C. Thurber to Norman J. Hearn about the California act on spraying asbestos. Thurber enclosed a draft letter on the asbestos industry's technical position and proposed amendments seeking additional exemptions based on low airborne…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 28, 1974
W. C. Thurber to E. A. Piersall: Miscellaneous Notes on King City Management Safety Audit (1974)
Memo dated October 28, 1974 with notes on a management safety audit of the King City plant. It covers general action items, comments from interviews with plant employees (mostly about slippery floors and safety meetings), and a dust sampling…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 12, 1975
W. C. Thurber Table of UCC Asbestos Products by Market and Competitive Products (1975)
A one-page table listing markets (floor tile, tape joint compounds, drilling mud, ceiling tile, paper, filled phenolics, polyester premix, textured coatings, welding rod coating, fireproof stopping sealant) alongside typical UCC products (SG grades…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 27, 1974
W. C. Thurber Memo on Strategy for Proposed New York State Asbestos Legislation, with April 1974 Letter to J. L. Myers and R. H. Mereness and Copy of Assembly Bill (1974)
Exhibit holds a June 27, 1974 memorandum by W. C. Thurber on a discussion with Don Ackerman about the proposed New York State asbestos bill and follow-up after the 1974 elections. It also holds Thurber's April 17, 1974 letter to J. L. Myers and R.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 12, 1975
W. C. Thurber Table of Markets, Typical UCC Asbestos Products and Competitive Products (1975)
A one-page table listing end-use markets (floor tile, tape joint compounds, drilling mud, ceiling tile, paper, filled phenolics, polyester premix, textured coatings, welding rod coating, fireproof stopping sealant), the typical UCC product grades…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1, 1975
W. C. Thurber to Kenneth Conklin, Illinois EPA, on Spraying of Asbestos-Containing Paints and Coatings (1975)
Letter from Union Carbide's asbestos product manager to the Illinois EPA asking for an opinion on whether spraying asbestos-containing paints and coatings falls outside the Illinois Pollution Control Board's ban on spraying asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 23, 1974
W. C. Thurber to Distribution on Current Status of Plans for Expanding the King City Asbestos Plant, with Attached Earlier Memos (1974)
A December 23, 1974 memo updating a June 19, 1974 memo on plans to expand the King City asbestos plant to 60,000 T/yr. It reports cost estimates, two financial cases, land acquisition efforts for tailings disposal, and a decision to defer…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 7, 1975
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison and J. L. Myers on Packaging SG-103 for Kentile in 100 lb. Polyethylene Bags (1975)
Short memo in which W. C. Thurber stated his understanding that SG-103 for Kentile was planned to be packed in 50 lb. Valeron cross-layered plastic bags and called that packaging very costly. He asked whether, if the pellet cooler were working, a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 28, 1974
W. C. Thurber Memo to Files on Conversation with Don Miller of Kentile Floors about Calidria Use in Floor Tile (1974)
Memo to files summarizing a January 23, 1974 conversation with Don Miller of Kentile Floors Inc. in Brooklyn. It records Kentile's asbestos sources and tonnage for its three floor tile plants, reduced production due to resin shortages, openness to a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 28, 1974
W. C. Thurber Memo to Files on Flintkote's Evaluation of Coalinga Asbestos for Floor Tile (1974)
Memo summarizing a January 25, 1974 conversation with Art Hooker of Flintkote Company about Flintkote's past evaluations of Coalinga asbestos fiber for floor tile. It reports Flintkote's current use of Canadian asbestos, its annual tonnage, plant…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 22, 1975
W. C. Thurber to J. L. Myers Enclosing Actyvex Agreement (1975), with Undated Draft on OSHA 1986 Asbestos Standards and Medical Surveillance
The exhibit combines a one-page May 22, 1975 cover letter from W. C. Thurber to J. L. Myers enclosing two copies of an Actyvex agreement for initialing and return, with a 16-page undated draft stamped DRAFT. The draft summarizes the medical…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 12, 1975
W. C. Thurber to J. W. Rawlings and F. C. Kroft, Jr. on Pending Asbestos Lawsuits (1975)
…suits had been dismissed and 9 were still pending. It describes the past defense strategy as showing that Union Carbide never sold product to the insulation trade, and says a newly raised conspiracy claim would make…