32 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 30, 1961
J. W. Moore of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Telegram on Ending Use of J-M Chrysotile for Its Chloride Content (1961)
A one-page Owens-Corning Fiberglas telegram of November 30, 1961, from J. W. Moore to G. L. Xalousek, W. F. Justice and G. C. Stefango. Moore understood that a decision had been reached that day…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · February 23, 1968
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Notes of a Meeting with Johns-Manville on the Filter Press Process for Calcium Silicate (1968)
…Owens-Corning was then making Kaylo, and the two companies appear to have been discussing whether Owens-Corning would take up J-M's process. In Johns-Manville's index Johns-Manville's legal department indexed…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · August 3, 1966
F. H. Edwards to J. M. Briley on Asbestosis and Lung Cancer in Insulation Workers (1966)
…insulation workers were drawing attention to asbestos disease in the trade. Edwards, writing within Owens-Corning, which sold Kaylo insulation and employed insulators through its contracting units, wrote that "medical diagnoses are sometimes influenced by the…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · August 19, 1966
F. H. Edwards to J. M. Briley on Chest X-Rays for Insulation Workers (1966)
A one-page Owens-Corning Fiberglas memo of August 19, 1966, from F. H. Edwards to J. M. Briley, following up his proposal to tighten health procedures in the Supply and Contracting Division. Edwards said he…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 4, 1961
G. C. Stefango to Don S. Wright on Discontinuing J-M Chrysotile in Kaylo (1961)
…W. Moore of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Telegram on Ending Use of J-M Chrysotile for Its Chloride Content (1961) About this copy These are documents 846 and 1144 of the Motley 1,000, from the set…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 20, 1963
William A. Lotz to J. H. Boynton on Methods for Evaluating Kaylo Dust, with H. V. Smith's Reply to Lotz (1963)
A June 20, 1963 intra-company memo in which William A. Lotz reported on his May 16, 1963 visit to the Union Carbide Chemicals Company insulation fabrication shop in West Virginia. He discussed airborne dust from fabricating Kaylo and Thermobestos…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · September 24, 1969
Jon L. Konzen to Henry C. Schwartz on Harry Copeland's Asbestosis Claim (1969)
…Konzen in Toledo to Dr. Henry C. Schwartz in Berlin, both of Owens-Corning Fiberglas, with a copy to Paul Scheuerle, headed "Harry Copeland." Konzen passed on a letter from Dr. Higgins of the University of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 4, 1962
H. E. Persinger and K. J. Garska, Summary Report on Health Hazard of Insulation Material: Determination of Alpha-Quartz by X-Ray Diffraction (1962)
Summary report on X-ray diffraction testing of two thermal insulation materials used at the Institute Plant, Owens Corning's Kaylo and Johns Manville's Thermo-Bestos, to determine alpha-quartz content. It reports that both…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 21, 1962
R. J. Sexton to Plant Manager Transmitting Peele's Industrial Hygiene Survey of 'Thermobestos' and 'Kaylo' Insulation Block Dust, Plant 511/512 (1962)
…Insulation Shop, Building 511-2018, where Johns-Manville 'Thermobestos' and Owens Corning 'Kaylo' insulation blocks were sawed. The letter says the report found 'Thermobestos' dust a definite health hazard with silicosis as the ultimate outcome, that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 4, 1962
R. J. Sexton to S. C. Giambruno on the Insulation Block Dust Survey of Johns-Manville "Thermobestos" at the Institute Plant (1962)
…hygienist R. E. Peele's 3 December 1962 memo and the enclosed 1962 industrial hygiene survey of dust from sawing Johns-Manville "Thermobestos" and Owens-Corning "Kaylo" insulation blocks. The memo recounts the earlier reports, a…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 23, 1966
Tomplait v. Combustion Engineering, Complaints and Dr. Stanton Fischer's Letter (1966-1968)
Papers from Claude J. Tomplait's suit against Combustion Engineering, Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Eagle-Picher and other insulation makers in the federal court at Beaumont, Texas (Civil Action No. 5402). The complaint…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 8, 1969
Henry C. Puetz v. C. F. Braun and Others, California Asbestosis Findings and Award (1966–1969)
…findings list more than 30 employers over those years, among them Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1949–1953 and 1957), Fibreboard, Owens Corning Fiberglas and many insulation contractors, and award him disability payments and further medical treatment.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 14, 1964
National Insulation Manufacturers Association Board Minutes on J-M's Caution Statement (1964)
…1964, with M. W. Burleson of Johns-Manville Sales Corp. in the chair and directors from Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Fibreboard and other companies present. Most of the business was routine. Under other business it…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 13, 1960
National Insulation Manufacturers Association Winter Meeting Minutes (1960)
…J. B. Jobe), along with Eagle-Picher, Keasbey & Mattison, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Union Asbestos & Rubber and others, plus the association's legal and publicity counsel. The business recorded is commercial and technical: product specifications…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · March 21, 1962
R. J. Sexton to L. N. Dickinson Enclosing Union Carbide's Thermobestos and Kaylo Dust Survey (1962)
…operators complained in November 1961 of heavy dust when cutting Johns-Manville's Thermobestos blocks, and little when cutting Owens-Corning's Kaylo. Peele concluded that cutting Thermobestos with band saws "produces a definite atmospheric hazard…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 21, 1962
Union Carbide Institute Plant Dust Surveys of J-M Thermobestos Insulation Blocks (1962)
…Robert E. Peele surveyed the plant's insulation shop and found that cutting J-M's "Thermobestos" blocks "produces a definite atmospheric hazard to health," while cutting Owens-Corning's "Kaylo" blocks did not. The plant…
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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)
…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 on an acetyl benzene unit and residues. The writer is not…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1963
Handwritten Daily Calendar Notes on Radiation Source Checks, Dust Sampling and AIHA, with Atmospheric Dust Table (1963)
…of Tank 1087, radiation sources, dust analysis and sampling techniques, a meeting with Bob Estep of Owens Corning, and a trip to AIHA. A fourth page is a typed table of atmospheric dust concentration test data.
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Company document · 1969
The Potter v. Fibreboard case file (1969-1972)
The case The judgment names twelve defendants: Fibreboard, Combustion Engineering, Johns-Manville Products, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Eagle-Picher, Pittsburgh Corning, Unarco, Philip Carey, Armstrong Contracting & Supply, Standard Asbestos, Ruberoid and Armstrong Cork. The insurer of his…
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Company document · 1962
The Tomplait v. Combustion Engineering case file (1962-1969)
The case Tomplait sued the companies whose insulation he had installed in December 1966: Combustion Engineering and R&I Refractory and Insulation, three Johns-Manville companies, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Gustin-Bacon, Pittsburgh Plate Glass…