532 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 6 of 27
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 7, 1963
C. W. McGary, P. L. Smith and L. C. Shriver, Status Report on Asbestos-Reinforced Resins (New Enterprises), Reactions of Chrysotile Asbestos with Acids (1963)
Status report, Project 161W21, File No. 1342, on laboratory work reacting chrysotile asbestos with aqueous and non-aqueous acids, including maleic, phosphoric and acetic acids, to cross-link asbestos for resin products. It summarizes the chemistry,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 18, 1965
C. W. McGary and P. L. Smith on High Purity Asbestos as a Thixotrope for Polyesters (1965)
Summary report on a laboratory study of whether high purity asbestos from the Mining and Metals Division could replace Cab-o-sil as a viscosity modifier and thixotropic aid in hand lay-up polyester resins. It reports that 2.5-3.0 per cent asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 21, 1965
H. H. Warwick and B. L. Murray, Particulate Matter in Air: Dust Breathed by Employees While Cutting and Installing Kaylo Insulation, Plant 514 (1965)
Industrial hygiene report dated September 21, 1965, requested by the Plant Medical Director, on dust breathed by insulators who cut and install "Kaylo" asbestos insulation. It reports 24 breathing-zone air samples averaging 5.2 million particles per…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 31, 1969
R. E. Joyner, M.D., to J. E. Finch and Others on Safety Precautions for Asbestos Fibers (1969)
Memo from Dr. R. E. Joyner at Texas City to five recipients about a recent letter from P. G. Bonin of Consumer Products Division on the hazard of asbestos fibers. Joyner said he did not disagree with the letter except that further sampling and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1965
Paul W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle on a Planned California Department of Health Visit to Asbestos Operations (1965)
Internal Union Carbide correspondence from industrial hygiene engineer Paul W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle at King City. It reported that Dr. Christine Einert of the California Department of Health planned to visit asbestos operations in…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 20, 1967
F. D. Dexter to T. F. Frangos on Answering Tom Hall's Letters about Asbestos T in Europe (1967)
Memo from F. D. Dexter to T. F. Frangos suggesting how to answer two letters from Tom Hall dated 5 and 13 September 1967. It covers price, a '68 plan, the problems of selling Asbestos T in Europe and the possibility of making "T" there, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 1969
John L. Myers, 'New Additives Induce Thixotropy, Provide Sag and Viscosity Control' – Reprint of 1969 Western Coatings Technology Society Paper on Calidria Asbestos (1969)
Reprint of a paper by John L. Myers presented in May 1969 to Western Coatings Technology Society meetings. It describes the Coalinga deposit, the mining and wet processing of Calidria chrysotile asbestos, its physical characteristics, and its use as…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 9, 1969
N. H. Ketcham to W. T. Barker and Others on Asbestos Air Sampling at PRESTONE Canning Plants (1969)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the industrial hygiene consultant, written after a March 18, 1969 letter from P. G. Bonin on precautions against inhaling asbestos fibers. It says Bonin's information was correct except for the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 25, 1967
R. E. Byrne, Jr., Report on UCC Resin-Grade 144 Asbestos as a Whisker Reinforcement for Thermoplastic Resins (1967)
A Union Carbide Research and Development Department report marked Business Confidential, dated August 25, 1967. It presents test data on reinforcing vinyl, styrene and polyethylene resins with R-G144, a hydraulically refined chrysotile asbestos mined near…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 9, 1966
A. E. Pufahl to Sales Distribution on Asbestos Toxicology Publicity, with Attached Articles, Dernehl Report and FDA Correspondence (1966)
…table of sources of airborne asbestos London Sunday Times article (Aug. 14, 1966) on mesothelioma and asbestos regulations in Britain; OCR badly garbled Union Carbide Asbestos Toxicology Report by Carl U. Dernehl, M.D., and K…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 29, 1969
G. L. Dickson Technical Service Report on Evaluating Asbestos T-135 as a Partial Replacement for Titanium Dioxide in a Papermaking Furnish, for Weyerhaeuser Corporation, Plainwell, Michigan (1969)
…Michigan Number 2 machine. In the trial, 20 lb of Union Carbide Asbestos T-135 replaced 25 lb of titanium dioxide per 1350 lb beater of furnish. The report gives the cost savings, retention and ash…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 29, 1969
G. L. Dickson, Technical Service Report on Evaluating Asbestos T-135 as a Partial Replacement for Titanium Dioxide in a Papermaking Furnish, for Weyerhaeuser, Plainwell, Michigan (1969)
Technical service report on a paper machine trial of Union Carbide's Asbestos T-135 as a partial replacement for titanium dioxide at Weyerhaeuser's Plainwell, Michigan mill (Number 2 machine). It reports that 20 lb…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 24, 1968
G. L. Dickson, Technical Service Report on Boise Cascade Mill Trial of High Purity Asbestos as Retention Aid and Hi-Sil 404 Replacement (1968)
Technical service report on a machine trial at Boise Cascade's Salem, Oregon mill on September 5-6, 1968, in which High Purity Asbestos was added to the furnish as a filler retention aid and partial replacement for Hi-Sil 404. It gives retention…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 17, 1968
Fred Williams to Dr. T. G. Day and Others on Preliminary Air Sampling Results for Asbestos (1968)
Memorandum from the industrial hygienist reporting preliminary air sampling for asbestos taken during pipe-insulation work at the Technical Center on April 24, 1968. It summarizes the TLV, disease background, sampling method and results, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 16, 1963
Handwritten Desk Diary Page for Thursday, May 16, 1963, Listing Calls and Meetings (1963)
A single handwritten desk-diary page dated May 16, 1963, with thirteen numbered entries listing calls, contacts and meetings. From the image, the entries appear to include a meeting at Owens-Corning about a dust technique for air analysis, and items…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1969
F. D. Dexter to L. P. Jehle, E. A. Barr and R. D. Bower on Divesting the Calidria Asbestos Business (1969)
…in which F. D. Dexter set out his view that the corporation's interests would be best served by divesting the Calidria asbestos business. He outlined preliminary steps: make it a separate entity, run it with…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 13, 1967
A. Kennedy to Frank Dexter on Asbestos Toxicology, with Dernehl and Lane's Asbestos Toxicology Report (1967)
Letter of 13 June 1967 from Kennedy to Frank Dexter, Re: Asbestos Toxicology Enclosed Union Carbide 'Asbestos Toxicology Report' signed by Carl U. Dernehl, M.D., and K. Lane, M.D.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 6, 1968
F. D. Dexter to W. L. Ellis, Jr. on Investment in the Asbestos Business (1968)
Memo from F. D. Dexter to the Law Department giving the company's investment in the asbestos business: gross fixed investment and net book value as of 12/31/67 for plant and equipment, plant land, and mineral rights and land. It also breaks out…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 9, 1966
A. E. Pufahl to Sales Staff on Customer Responses to Asbestos Toxicology Publicity (1966)
…including the table 'Sources of airborne asbestos' and the article 'Asbestos: Awaiting Trial' London Sunday Times article (August 14, 1966) on occupational exposure to asbestos and mesothelioma Union Carbide 'Asbestos Toxicology Report' by Carl U. Dernehl…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 8, 1963
E. G. Caflisch to F. L. Steahly on Norman Setter's Visit to Discuss Coalinga Asbestos and Hydrocarbon Resin Binders (1963)
Memorandum reporting an April 3, 1963 visit by Norman Setter of Union Carbide Nuclear Company to discuss using light-colored hydrocarbon prepolymers as binders for Coalinga asbestos. It covers sample shipments and testing plans, a market…