265 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 6 of 14
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 18, 1975
J. E. Walsh Report of Call to Georgia Pacific (Decatur, Georgia) on Asbestos Toxicology and the 244 Adhesive (1975)
Report of a call on Georgia Pacific, a maker of chemical resins in Decatur, Georgia, made by J. E. Walsh with R. E. Byrne to discuss toxicology. The meeting with Dr. Bornstein became a meeting with chemist Walter Boyles, and the report describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 12, 1982
Fred L. Smith to B. L. Ingalls on Plenum Test of King City Tailings and Raw Ore Samples (1982)
Memo dated May 12, 1982, transmitting results of controlled-environment tests on King City tailings and raw ore samples. Samples were agitated on a Derrick pan vibrator in a closed chamber, airborne fibers were collected on filters, and counts were…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 19, 1973
John L. Myers to R. E. Byrne, W. C. Thurber and Others on Use of HPO in Tape Joint Compounds (1973)
Internal memo reporting that National Gypsum asked Union Carbide to supply SG-210 to its Norwegian affiliate, and that Union Carbide said SG-210 was not available for export because of short supply. The writer suggested…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 3, 1976
J. L. Myers to W. C. Thurber on Calidria Asbestos Bag Labelling (1976)
Internal Union Carbide memo responding to a request from W. C. Thurber about bag labelling. It states that bag warnings began in June 1968 with the text 'Breathing dust may be harmful' and that in June…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 23, 1972
H. B. Rhodes to R. E. Byrne, Jr. and Others Transmitting Product Information Questionnaire for Chrysotile Asbestos (1972)
…transmitting a Product Information Questionnaire prepared for a specific customer and said to be cleared by legal and medical staff in New York. The attached questionnaire gives Union Carbide's answers on chrysotile asbestos (Imcobest, Visbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 12, 1977
J. L. Myers to W. C. Thurber Transmitting Speech Script on Asbestos Industry Safety for California Cancer Education Programs (1977)
Internal Union Carbide Metals Division memo dated June 12, 1977, from J. L. Myers to W. C. Thurber enclosing the script for a slide presentation for California's "Preventing On-The-Job Cancer" programs on June…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 5, 1975
J. E. Walsh Report of Call on Stebbins Engineering (Port Allen, Louisiana) About Calidria RG-244 (1975)
Report of a call by J. E. Walsh on Stebbins Engineering, a maker of FRP tanks and fittings in Port Allen, Louisiana, interviewing engineer Anil Bhargava. It says Stebbins became an RG-244 customer after its division manager heard about the product…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 10, 1978
B. L. Ingalls to J. L. Myers on Determinations for Asbestos in Competitor Tape Caulk Products (1978)
Technical Service Report No. 2224-25 describing microscopic analyses of competitors' tape caulk products made by Stanley Tool Company and W. J. Dennis and Company, requested by J. W. Mortell of Detroit. It reports that fibrous material resembling…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 22, 1973
E. J. Kleber to C. C. Masterman on Airborne Asbestos Fiber Counts in Laboratories (1973)
Internal correspondence from E. J. Kleber to C. C. Masterman transmitting results of airborne asbestos fiber counts taken in Building 166, Labs 112, 116-118 and 158, with a one-page summary of OSHA asbestos regulations. The memo said the results…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 3, 1976
J. L. Myers to W. C. Thurber on Calidria Asbestos Bag Labelling (1976)
Internal correspondence from the Calidria Asbestos marketing department responding to a request from W. C. Thurber about bag labelling. It states that bag warnings began in June 1968 and that the wording was changed in June 1972 to comply with the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 19, 1973
G. L. Dickson to J. L. Myers on Evaluation of the King City RG-244 Production Facility, with Attached Report (1973)
Internal memo from G. L. Dickson to J. L. Myers, with an attached report, summarizing a three-week visit to the King City plant in August 1973. It concluded that only a 5-10% increase in RG-244 production was possible from present facilities and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 7, 1977
G. L. Dickson to Dr. H. B. Rhodes on Koppers Company's Policy Against Using Asbestos in Polyester Resins (1977)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting that Fred Tropp of Koppers Company told Ed Kleber at the Houston Paint Show that Koppers' policy has been not to use asbestos, so there have been no recent sales of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 30, 1976
H. B. Rhodes to J. L. Myers on Status of the Denver Drywall Asbestos Problem (1976)
Memo reporting on a Colorado OSHA inspection of Denver Drywall, a contractor at the Johns-Manville headquarters job in Denver that used a joint compound containing about 1% SG-210 asbestos. It describes the citations, UCC's dust sampling, the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 10, 1980
John L. Myers to G. R. Adams, F. J. Shortsleeve and R. W. Rebholz on the Calidria 1981 Sales Budget and Planned Price Increases (1980)
Internal memo transmitting the 1981 Calidria asbestos sales budget for review and approval. It states that plant costs were estimated to rise 30% and that price increases were budgeted to recover part of the lost gross margin, and it lists eight…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 8, 1968
R. G. Woolery to R. E. Byrne and Others on the Annual ASTM D-30 Sub III Meeting in San Francisco, with Draft Asbestos Definitions (1968)
Internal correspondence reporting on the June 24-28, 1968 ASTM D-30 meeting in San Francisco, including the Sub III (Asbestos and Other Natural Occurring Fibers) committee's work on test methods and definitions. Attached are a sixth draft of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 11, 1979
H. B. Rhodes to J. L. Myers on the CPSC Hair Dryer Asbestos Bulletin and the Tomoe Inquiry (1979)
H. B. Rhodes sent J. L. Myers a memo transmitting a May 1979 CPSC bulletin on hair dryers containing asbestos insulation. The memo summarized the CPSC's preliminary determination and public information program, said the technical information seen…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 23, 1976
B. L. Ingalls to G. L. Dickson on Corrosion Attributed to HPO Calidria Asbestos in Metal Substrate Applications at Parr Inc. and Rapid Systems Co. (1976)
Memo updating the status of Union Carbide's investigation of corrosion problems that Parr Inc. and Rapid Systems Co. in Ohio attributed to HPO (Calidria) chrysotile used in metal substrate applications. It reports that Rapid Systems…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 14, 1973
H. B. Rhodes to Sales and Management Staff on Revision of Emergency Temporary Standard on Certain Carcinogens and Customer Inquiries on Asbestos (1973)
Internal memo reporting that customers had asked whether asbestos is a carcinogen, a question tied to an OSHA regulation defining carcinogen by a list of fourteen organic compounds that does not include asbestos. It told recipients they could say…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 4, 1979
John L. Myers Memo on Air Carriage of Asbestos, with 1977 Correspondence with EPA on Spray-On Asbestos Materials (1979)
A compilation of Union Carbide Metals Division and EPA papers. A June 1979 internal memo says Mr. Alexander confirmed that asbestos is not covered by the restrictions on a card about carrying hazardous materials aboard aircraft…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
J. E. Walsh and Other Call Reports on Alpha Chemical (Polyester Resins) and Its Use of Calidria RG-244 Asbestos (1973-1984)
Compilation of Union Carbide customer call reports, mostly by salesman J. E. Walsh, on Alpha Chemical Company, a polyester resin maker with plants in Colliersville, Tennessee and Lakeland, Florida. The reports cover Alpha's use of…