5,238 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 96 of 262
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 16, 1978
John L. Myers to G. R. Adams on 1977 Calidria Export Sales Summary (1978)
Internal memo summarizing 1977 export sales of Calidria asbestos, reported as a record year, with six regional developments (Brazil, Australia, Japan/Tomoe, Grace-Europe, Mercomed, Daubert/Holland). It closes with a note on health problems abroad…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 11, 1974
B. L. Ingalls to H. B. Rhodes Transmitting the RG-244 Quality Control Study, with Appended Commentaries (1974)
A July 11, 1974 internal cover memo from B. L. Ingalls to H. B. Rhodes transmits his June 27, 1974 interim report on quality control of RG-244, the silica-treated Calidria asbestos product. The report covers wet-end testing at the King City plant…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 22, 1983
L. A. Crisorio to T. W. Carmody et al. Transmitting Minutes of April 7, 1983 Meeting on the Financial Impact of the Miller Bill (1983)
Internal memo transmitting minutes of an April 7, 1983 ad hoc meeting that reviewed the financial impact on the Metals Division of a proposed Miller Bill to fund compensation for asbestos and other toxic substance claims. The attachments include…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
C. U. Dernehl Memo to Chemicals & Plastics, Los Angeles, on the Toxicity of Calidria Asbestos
One-page memo from the Associate Medical Director to a Chemicals & Plastics contact in Los Angeles on the toxicity of Calidria asbestos. It says asbestos has little acute toxicity and that harm usually appears after 15-20 years of exposure. It…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 2, 1976
J. E. Skvarla to R. G. Woolery on a Wetted Dust-Free Supervisbestos Product and Improved Product Quality (1976)
Internal memo from J. E. Skvarla to R. G. Woolery responding to W. C. Thurber's letters on improving Supervisbestos. It proposes making a dust-free wetted product by blending S V filter cake with dry pellets in the Lancaster mixer, citing Niagara…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 10, 1979
R. E. Byrne, Jr. to Calidria Distributors Urging a Customer Hazard-Notification Program, with Attached Distributor Mailing List (1979)
A September 10, 1979 form letter from R. E. Byrne, Jr. urging Calidria distributors to start a program, repeated roughly yearly, to inform their customers of possible hazards of using and handling asbestos. The letter says such a program is evidence…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1973
J. L. Myers and E. J. Kleber Report of Call on Georgia-Pacific, Akron, NY, on OSHA Citation and Dust Control (1973)
…Pacific's Akron, NY plant after the plant's OSHA asbestos citation. It records the $3000 fine, drawings of Union Carbide's bagging enclosure left with Georgia-Pacific, product samples, dust samples taken, and an observation…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 21, 1988
A. P. Yalcinkaya to Texas Air Control Board on Extending the Building 133 Asbestos Insulation Removal, with the Sept. 7, 1988 Renovation Notification (1988)
Two letters from Union Carbide's Texas City industrial hygiene director to the Texas Air Control Board about removing asbestos-containing insulation from Building 133. The Sept. 7, 1988 letter gave notice of the planned removal…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 6, 1975
R. G. Woolery to Professor P. K. Mehta on Shelving the Asbestos Tailings Cement Additive Study (1975)
Letter from R. G. Woolery to Professor P. K. Mehta of the University of California, Berkeley, thanking him for his response to a request for exploratory studies on using asbestos tailings as a cement additive. Woolery wrote that legal advice was…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 17, 1974
E. J. Kleber to C. C. Masterman on Asbestos Fiber Counts in Building 166 Laboratories (1974)
Internal memo reporting air sampling for asbestos fibers collected December 11, 1974 in laboratories 112, 116 and 158 of Building 166, Niagara Falls. It lists four samples (three personal, one environmental) with fiber counts of 0.1 to 0.3 fibers/cc…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 6, 1973
John L. Myers to R. F. X. Fusaro Transmitting SPE-RETEC Presentation on Calidria Asbestos Marketing, with Press Clippings and OSHA Letter (1973)
A one-page internal memo from John L. Myers to the Law Department enclosing a copy of his oral presentation to the SPE-RETEC and its transparencies, and asking for review for possible presentation to other groups. Attached are a Plastics Technology…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 21, 1982
R. W. Rebholz to W. C. Kuryla on Asbestos Labeling and Cigarette Smoking, with Handwritten Note (1982)
Internal Union Carbide memo from R. W. Rebholz to Dr. W. C. Kuryla, referring to a memo of October 20th, about a suggestion that a new asbestos label warn that cancer risk from asbestos exposure is…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
J. E. Walsh and Other Call Reports on Alpha Chemical (Polyester Resins) and Its Use of Calidria RG-244 Asbestos (1973-1984)
Compilation of Union Carbide customer call reports, mostly by salesman J. E. Walsh, on Alpha Chemical Company, a polyester resin maker with plants in Colliersville, Tennessee and Lakeland, Florida. The reports cover Alpha's use of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 5, 1977
John L. Myers to R. L. Schult, W. C. Thurber and R. G. Woolery Forwarding a Columbia Journalism Review Article on Selikoff, NIOSH and the ANPA (1977)
…paper, cites R. G. Woolery's papers on asbestos in paper-making and Union Carbide's marketing of high-purity asbestos for pitch control, and quotes Myers on when asbestos use in paper began and declined.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 31, 1977
John L. Myers to Linda Chaput (EPA) on Proposed Exemption from the Asbestos Spraying Prohibition (1977)
Letter from Union Carbide's Marketing Manager to an EPA official confirming an August 30 telephone conversation about proposed wording of an exemption from the asbestos spraying prohibition. It states support for an exemption for spray…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 9, 1987
D. H. Hanshew to U.S. EPA Region III on Notice of Asbestos Removal and Disposal at South Charleston, West Virginia Facilities (1987)
…III Regional Administrator, under 40 CFR §61.146, of planned renovation activities at Union Carbide's South Charleston, West Virginia facilities. It stated that routine maintenance in 1987 might involve removing asbestos insulation, that the amount…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 19, 1985
J. R. Salisbury Project Report on Comparative Elastomeric Coating Study of UCAR Latex 123, Tucker Latex Plant (1985)
Project report comparing a new Union Carbide latex, UCAR Latex 123, with UCAR Latex 163 and Rohm & Haas EC-1791 and EC-1895 in elastomeric coatings (mastics). It reports test results on viscosity, freeze/thaw, tensile…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 8, 1985
Workplace Environment Monitoring Field Data Sheets and Industrial Hygiene Sampling Coding Forms for Asbestos (1985)
Eighteen pages of mostly handwritten forms, in six sets, for an air-monitoring project labeled "Asbestos". Each set has a Workplace Environment Monitoring Field Data Sheet followed by Industrial Hygiene Workplace Sampling keypunch coding sheets. The…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 7, 1987
G. W. Wulfert to F. E. Dailey and Others on Future Asbestos Disposal Sites at Sistersville (1987)
Memorandum dated May 7, 1987 stating that the Sistersville plant's asbestos disposal landfill was nearing the end of its life and that a new plan was needed. It called a meeting on May 26, 1987 at 1 PM in Building 33 to develop that plan.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 2, 1985
J. L. Worstell to EPA Region III Regional Administrator, Notice of Asbestos Removal and Disposal at South Charleston Plant (1985)
…EPA Region III Regional Administrator, under 40 CFR §61.146, that Union Carbide planned renovation and/or demolition at its South Charleston, West Virginia facilities from January 1 to December 31, 1985. It stated that the…