92 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 2 of 5
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 19, 1972
John L. Myers to J. R. Rawlings Forwarding Degussa's Letter to German Customers on Ending Asbestos Thickener Sales (1972)
A handwritten inter-company reply memo from John L. Myers forwards a German Degussa letter and an English translation made at Niagara Falls, obtained from W. R. Grace in Bad Homburg. The attachments are Degussa's 1971 letter to German customers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 6, 1971
Patrick J. Morgan to J. W. Rawlings Transmitting the Conwed Corporation Calidria Requirements Contract (1971)
…6, 1971, re: M & M - Sale of Asbestos - Conwed Corporation, with handwritten notation about returning executed copies Requirements agreement between Union Carbide Corporation and Conwed Corporation for Calidria Asbestos High Purity Pellets, as of January 2…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 22, 1971
H. B. Rhodes Report of Call to Nylene Corp. (Mack Ogburn) on RG-144 in Reinforced Nylon (1971)
A Union Carbide report of a telephone call by H. B. Rhodes to Mack Ogburn of Nylene Corp., a maker of nylon molding compounds in Jenkinsville, S.C., following up on RG-144 in reinforced nylon…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 29, 1971
G. P. Stromberg to J. W. Rawlings Transmitting A-28 Asbestos Price Escalation Schedules (1971)
A one-paragraph memorandum from G. P. Stromberg to J. W. Rawlings transmitting Schedules A, B, C and D and an explanation of the price escalation applicable to A28 Asbestos. The attachments explain a CIF price formula that weights wage indices at…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 23, 1974
W. C. Thurber to Distribution on Current Status of Plans for Expanding the King City Asbestos Plant, with Attached Earlier Memos (1974)
A December 23, 1974 memo updating a June 19, 1974 memo on plans to expand the King City asbestos plant to 60,000 T/yr. It reports cost estimates, two financial cases, land acquisition efforts for tailings disposal, and a decision to defer…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 13, 1971
H. B. Rhodes Report of Call on Baker Castor Oil Co. Request for Toxicology Information on RG-144 (1971)
Report of a telephone call dated 7/13/71 in which H. B. Rhodes recorded a request from John Gayle of Baker Castor Oil Co., a maker of thix agents, for toxicology information. Baker was using moderate quantities of RG-144 in a thixotropic material…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 12, 1975
W. C. Thurber to J. W. Rawlings and F. C. Kroft, Jr. on Pending Asbestos Lawsuits (1975)
…suits had been dismissed and 9 were still pending. It describes the past defense strategy as showing that Union Carbide never sold product to the insulation trade, and says a newly raised conspiracy claim would make…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 29, 1974
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison and Others on Housekeeping Test in the King City Bagging Area to Meet OSHA Fiber Limit (1974)
Memo from W. C. Thurber stating that OSHA regulations require the dust level at the King City operation to be below two fibers per cc after July 1, 1976, and that recent dust counts showed the main circuit bagging area as the principal problem. He…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 3, 1972
Paul W. McDaniel to J. L. Myers on Asbestos Fiber Survey at American Biltrite Plant, Trenton, N.J. (1972)
Internal Union Carbide letter reporting a March 1, 1972 airborne asbestos fiber survey at the American Biltrite plant in Trenton, N.J., where asbestos was used in plastic tile manufacture. It lists fiber counts at seven…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 17, 1972
W. N. Johnson to P. W. McDaniel and Others on the Test Program for Airborne Asbestos (1972)
Memo summarizing arrangements agreed at a January 12 meeting in Niagara for a program to measure airborne asbestos. The program covered a survey of employee exposure at customers' plants near Bartow, Florida, and laboratory tests at Niagara of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 11, 1974
W. C. Thurber to E. W. Krummel on Calidria Pellets vs. Carey Fiber for Phenolic Molding Compounds (1974)
Memo from W. C. Thurber to E. W. Krummel, with Myers, Potter and Rawlings also named, commenting on Group I reports about bulk handling of asbestos for phenolic molding compounds. It argues that Calidria pellets and SG-104 or SG-200 grades are…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 24, 1973
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison, Jr. on Deferring Coverall Service for King City Employees (1973)
Letter from W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison, Jr., with J. F. Emerson and J. W. Rawlings also listed, about a coverall service for all employees at an annual cost of $5,000 that was discussed during his visit the previous week. Thurber suggested…
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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 · 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 · 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 · November 6, 1972
P. W. McDaniel to F. H. Larrison on Dust Counts of Air Samples Collected at King City (1972)
Internal Union Carbide letter marked CONFIDENTIAL from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to the King City mill, reporting airborne fiber counts from samples taken October 18-19, 1972. It compares 25 mm and 47…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 29, 1971
Calidria RG 244 Sales Report on Chevron Chemical Co. Testing, with Degussa Notice Withdrawing Asbestos Thickening Agents A 14 and A 28 (1971)
Harrisons & Crosfield (Pacific) Inc. / Union Carbide Calidria sales report by Tom Fletcher on Chevron Chemical Co., Richmond, CA, dated November 29, 1971; RG 244 testing as a Cabosil replacement Blank page Degussa letter in English dated…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 12, 1976
W. C. Thurber to J. W. Rawlings on the Asbestos SPU Action Plan for RG-244 and RG-600 (1976)
Internal Metals Division memorandum outlining an action plan to expand earnings of the Asbestos strategic planning unit (Calidria) through the specialty fibers RG-244 and RG-600. It covers markets, sales history and projections, airborne fiber…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 24, 1971
Paul W. McDaniel to J. W. Rawlings Transmitting Write-Up on Asbestos Standards and Dust Control at King City (1971)
A cover letter from Paul W. McDaniel to J. W. Rawlings transmitting a write-up on asbestos and copies of dust determination methods, followed by three pages of text. The text sets out the OSHA air-contaminant standard for asbestos as of September…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 15, 1972
Internal Memo to J. W. Rawlings on the December 14, 1972 Asbestos Information Association Meeting (1972)
Internal correspondence from the Mining and Metals Division, 270 Park Avenue, New York, summarizing the December 14, 1972 meeting of the AIA (Asbestos Information Association). The numbered captions cover publicity planning with a PR firm, a draft…