8 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”
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Company document · 1943
Saranac Laboratory Letter to Owens-Illinois on Synthetic Insulation (1943)
…was introduced. The animal studies that followed confirmed in 1948 that Kaylo dust caused asbestosis. Owens-Illinois kept making and selling Kaylo without warnings, and Owens-Corning, which bought the product line in 1958, sold it…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 16, 1948
Arthur J. Vorwald to Owens-Illinois on Kaylo Causing Asbestosis in Animals (1948)
What it shows To help Owens-Illinois plan a safety program, the report also drew on Saranac's unpublished asbestos experiments, which it said had been reported "to certain other supporting companies, but not as yet…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 16, 1948
Arthur J. Vorwald to U. E. Bowes on Kaylo Producing Asbestosis in Animals (1948)
…The same letter with its report is already published from Johns-Manville's chronology as Vorwald to Owens-Illinois on Kaylo causing asbestosis. In Johns-Manville's index Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · May 31, 1944
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes on Animal Tests of Hydrous Calcium Silicate (1944)
What it shows Gardner left it to Owens-Illinois to judge whether the samples matched the dust in the air of its plant, since the company was "in a better position than we to know." The…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · March 12, 1943
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes on Asbestos in the Synthetic Insulation (1943)
What it shows The letter shows that the asbestos in the material that became Kaylo was known to Owens-Illinois and to Saranac in 1943, before any animal tests, and that Saranac's first reaction was…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 27, 1944
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes Proposing an Inhalation Study of K-Lo Dust (1944)
…Gardner wrote that he hoped the results would be such that Owens-Illinois "might wish to have us publish our findings but it is understood that nothing will be published without your authorization." He also proposed…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · October 30, 1948
Saranac Laboratory, Interim Report on the Biological Activity of Kaylo Dust (1948)
A nine-page interim report of October 30, 1948, to the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, submitted by Dr. Arthur J. Vorwald of the Saranac Laboratory with Philip C. Pratt, Thomas M. Durkan and Anthony B. Delahant…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · February 23, 1943
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes on First Tests of the Calcium Silicate Samples (1943)
…to U. E. Bowes of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, written the day the calcium silicate samples arrived. Gardner said he "would suspect that they might be a source of respiratory difficulty" but needed more information…