2,273 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 28 of 114
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 25, 1971
P. L. Reiber to R. L. Folkman on Asbestos Export Sales in Europe (1971)
Internal memo reporting on the writer's recent trip to Europe, where he met Heinz Trautmann and staff of U. C. Europe S.A. in Geneva to discuss asbestos sales and reseller activity. It describes three product groupings (standard grade for floor…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1, 1976
J. E. Walsh Customer Call Report on Island Plastics, Waco, Texas, Regarding RG-600 Asbestos Dispersion Trials (1976)
…Island had been unable to disperse the 600 and that a compounded run by Schulman did not fill the molds. Union Carbide planned to send compounded samples for testing once material arrived from Adell in Baltimore.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 27, 1973
R. E. Byrne, Jr. Informal Report on TiO2 Contamination of RG-244 During the T-135 Plant Run (1973)
Informal report describing TiO2 contamination found in RG-244 asbestos produced during the August 15-22, 1973 T-135 plant run at King City. It reports TiO2 levels up to almost 3%, no correlation between TiO2 content and thickening efficiency, sales…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 10, 1972
James W. Rawlings to R. C. Sulick, Reichhold Chemical Industries, on Asbestos Regulations and RG-244 Customer Compliance (1972)
Letter from a Union Carbide Mining and Metals Division vice-president to the technical director of Reichhold Chemical Industries, a customer for RG-244 asbestos. It addresses federal asbestos regulations and the OSHA exposure limits and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 31, 1973
J. E. Walsh Report of Call on Georgia-Pacific, Marietta, Georgia, on Dust Counts in Tape Joint Compound Mixing (1973)
Report of a call by J. E. Walsh at Georgia-Pacific's Marietta, Georgia, tape joint compound plant, where he ran dust counts at the plant's request. It lists the sample numbers, sampling times and locations (plant foreman, redi-mix and dry-mix…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 29, 1979
L. W. Phair to Maintenance Supervision on Removal of Insulation, with Attached South Charleston Asbestos Removal and Disposal Safety Procedure (1979)
A 1979 internal letter from L. W. Phair to South Charleston plant maintenance supervisors says the new asbestos handling procedure applies to all crafts. It tells supervisors to arrange training and equipment for employees who do incidental…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 31, 1973
John L. Myers to F. H. Larrison on Plant Assistance and Visits by G. L. Dickson and J. E. Walsh at King City (1973)
Internal correspondence from the Calidria Asbestos marketing department to F. H. Larrison at King City. It said G. L. Dickson would spend up to a month at King City working on the RG-244 circuit to increase output, that sales efforts were being…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 26, 1972
B. L. Murray to E. O. Harrah on Asbestos Dust Concentrations in Insulation Work, South Charleston Plant (1972)
Internal letter reporting results of personal air monitoring of insulators in the South Charleston Plant maintenance department (Project D-1-72). It states the 8-hour time-weighted average asbestos fiber concentrations were below the permissible…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 2, 1971
E. Epremian to Asbestos Meeting Distribution Transmitting NRC Airborne Asbestos Extracts and Summary of Asbestos Laws (1971)
Internal memo of September 2, 1971 from E. Epremian sending background for the September 8 asbestos meeting on Environmental Factors. The enclosures are extracts of the 1971 National Research Council report 'Airborne Asbestos' (conclusions and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 29, 1977
J. E. Walsh Call Report on Proko Company, Dallas, After Its Joint Compounds Went Asbestos-Free (1977)
Customer call report on Proko Company of Dallas, Texas, a joint compound maker described as a former HPO customer. It records that Proko stopped using asbestos in its joint compounds on September 1 and gives the reasons: pressure from its parent…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 14, 1973
F. H. Ancker to W. C. Streib at Johns-Manville on a Chrysotile Asbestos Ore Specimen (1973)
Letter from F. H. Ancker of Union Carbide's R&D Department thanking Dr. Streib of Johns-Manville for a chrysotile asbestos ore specimen with fiber bundles nine inches long. Ancker wrote that the long fibers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 20, 1973
John L. Myers to R. E. Byrne and Others on T-135-0 Allocation (1973)
Internal memo from Calidria Asbestos Marketing reporting the end-of-August inventory of T-135-0 (204.1 tons, mostly at King City) and how it would be allocated among customers such as U. S. Gypsum, H & C, Florida Rolling Mills and export buyers if…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 24, 1975
H. B. Rhodes to W. C. Thurber on Advantages of Dust Controlled "Calidria" Products (1975)
…to dust-controlled Calidria products generally. It lists six advantages: reduced health risk, defense against product liability suits, a counter to union activity, OSHA and EPA compliance positions, and shipping savings. It asks counsel to review…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 4, 1971
H. B. Rhodes to F. J. McCarthy and R. E. Byrne on Pigmented Asbestos-Containing Systems, Docket 8093 (1971)
Internal memo summarizing conclusions of a meeting at Niagara Falls on pigmented asbestos-containing systems (Docket 8093). McCarthy was to review whether the docket covers the separate slurry technique, a list of foreign countries was to be…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 20, 1975
H. B. Rhodes Report of Call to General Motors Research Lab (Dr. W. Krebs) on Fiber Counting Methods for Ground Plastic Samples (1975)
…of counting and identifying fibers in air samples from spraying and grinding of Calidria-containing plastic. It describes GM's optical and SEM procedure, compares it with Union Carbide's approach, and recommends that K. S…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 5, 1978
Gordon L. Dickson to E. W. Shortridge and L. J. Grogan on Expected King City Shipments to Domestic Customers (1978)
Internal memo from Gordon L. Dickson to King City personnel attaching a rough schedule of April 1978 shipments of Calidria asbestos from King City to domestic customers. The memo lists monthly tonnage agreements totaling 907 tons for GAF, Flintkote,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 20, 1977
E. J. Kleber Call Report on Steelcase Corp. Regarding RG-600 and Fire Retardancy in Office Furniture (1977)
Customer call report of a 1/20/77 visit by salesman Edward J. Kleber, with Martin Leung, to Steve Kolk, materials engineer at Steelcase Corp. in Grand Rapids, MI. The report says the call followed up on an RG-600 sample and discussed fire retardancy…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 30, 1975
H. B. Rhodes to W. C. Thurber on OSHA Asbestos Use Warnings and the Law Department's Proposed Cancer Label for Calidria (1975)
Memo responding to a request for comments on Marjorie Chamberlain's May 5, 1975 Law Department memorandum, which recommended stronger asbestos warning labels. The writer discussed the business, medical and liability risks of a label saying asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Ethylene Oxide Filter Change at Texas City (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo from an industrial hygienist at Texas City reporting an October 16, 1979 OSHA visit on potential employee exposure during changing of ethylene oxide filter cartridges at the loading rack. It describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 10, 1979
John L. Myers to Dr. F. J. Shortsleeve on Preliminary 1981 Calidria Asbestos Sales Estimate (1979)
Internal memo from John L. Myers transmitting a preliminary 1981 sales estimate for Calidria asbestos, with a comparison of tons and dollars against 1979 and the 1980 budget. It discusses a price increase averaging 8.5% he hoped to implement for…