3,673 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 16 of 184
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · September 3, 2009 · in the opinion
Fuller v. AW Chesterton, Inc. (2009)
…Monsanto Chemical Co.; Motion Control Industries, Inc.; Murco Wall Products, Inc.; New York Air Brake Corp.; Owens-Illinois, Inc.; Pecora Corp.; Plastics Engineering Co.; Pneumo Abex Corp. as successor-in-interest to Abex Corp.; Railroad Friction…
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Blog · 2022
There’s Another Asbestos Trust in Town
…and tests on their various products. In 1948, doctors from Saranac wrote the following to Owens-Illinois: “I realize that our findings regarding Kaylo are less favorable than anticipated. However, since Kaylo is capable of producing…
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Product
Kaylo | Mesothelioma Claims
…a rigid, lightweight, microporous solid. Owens-Illinois developed it at its research operation and had it at pilot-plant stage by 1943; commercial production ran principally out of the Berlin, New Jersey and Sayreville, New Jersey…
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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 · February 7, 1952
Arthur J. Vorwald to W. G. Hazard Sending the Final Kaylo Report (1952)
What it shows Vorwald told Owens-Illinois plainly that its product could cause asbestosis, and also offered to keep the product's name out of print and to send the manuscript "for review before being released…
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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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Person · People and organizations
W. G. Hazard
Industrial Hygienist, Owens-Illinois, Toledo, OH Instructor at Harvard School of Public Health Owens-Illinois Graduated from Harvard Public Health Service
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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1955
G. W. H. Schepers, T. M. Durkan and A. B. Delahant, "Effect of Inhaled Commercial Hydrous Calcium Silicate Dust on Animal Tissues" (1955)
…asbestosis type lesions; affected course of tuberculosis. J-M's Thermobestos line is essentially the same composition. Related documents W. G. Hazard of Owens-Illinois to Ira I. Brought on Kaylo and the Saranac Experiments (1956)
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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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Person · People and organizations
Arthur J. Vorwald
Director of the Saranac Laboratory, 1948–1952; reported to Owens-Illinois that its Kaylo insulation produced asbestosis in animals, corresponded with Johns-Manville on asbestosis studies, and proposed asbestos lung-cancer research to the Quebec Asbestos…
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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 · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 30, 1952
Saranac Laboratory, Final Report on the Capacity of Inhaled Kaylo Dust to Injure the Lung (1952)
…apart from a slightly unfavorable effect when exposure came first. The final report confirmed what Saranac had told Owens-Illinois in 1948. The company's plant survey is in Saranac's May 1951 industrial hygiene report…
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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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Patent · April 3, 1951
Calcium silicate of microcrystalline lathlike structure (US Patent 2,547,127, 1951)
…It was assigned to Owens Illinois Glass Co. The patent's description opens (from the scanned text): This invention relates to the production of a new integrated hydrous silicate solid suitable for use as insulation in…
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Patent · October 11, 1938
Combined Asbestos and Glass Fibre Yarns (US Patent 2,132,702, 1938)
Donald C. Simpson received US Patent No. 2,132,702 on October 11, 1938, filed May 22, 1937. It was assigned to Owens Illinois Glass Co.
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Patent · May 29, 1956
Method of making porous calcium silicate products (US Patent 2,748,008, 1956)
George L. Kalousek received US Patent No. 2,748,008 on May 29, 1956, filed April 3, 1952. It was assigned to Owens Illinois Glass Co.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 25, 1950
Arthur J. Vorwald and J. P. Woodard on Shipping Asbestos in Burlap Bags (1950)
…suggested the use of paper containers for asbestos fiber, comparable to those used for diatomaceous earth, as an improvement from a hygiene perspective. Problem was brought to Vorwald's attention by medical director of Owens-Illinois.
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 18, 1950
Arthur J. Vorwald to W. G. Hazard on Waiting for the Final Kaylo Report (1950)
…director of the Saranac Laboratory, to W. G. Hazard of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, answering his letter of December 12. On the planned brochure about Kaylo dust, Vorwald thought it "advisable to wait until all…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · June 1, 1950
Arthur J. Vorwald to W. G. Hazard on X-Ray Readings and Kaylo Findings (1950)
…G. Hazard of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company's Industrial Relations Division. Vorwald agreed to put Saranac's reading of chest X-rays of Owens-Illinois employees on a contract basis, at $4.00 per case…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · January 3, 1950
James F. Morgan to W. G. Hazard on X-Ray Analysis of Kaylo Dust (1950)
…a chemist, to W. G. Hazard of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company's Division of Industrial Hygiene, with a one-page report dated January 4, 1950, from the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research's Department of…