28 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 12, 1975
R. J. Klotzbach to W. C. Thurber Transmitting Answers to Supplemental Interrogatories 5 and 8 in Roderman et al. v. Union Carbide (1975)
Cover memo from Klotzbach to Thurber transmitting answers to questions 5 and 8 in Roderman v. Union Carbide Answer to Question 5: Technology Department history, functions, quality assurance and safety responsibilities Answer to Question 8: asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 12, 1975
R. J. Klotzbach to W. C. Thurber Forwarding Answers to Supplemental Interrogatory Questions 5 and 8, Roderman et al. v. Union Carbide (1975)
…questions 5 and 8 prepared as background for supplemental interrogatories in Roderman et al. v. Union Carbide Corporation et al. The cover memo gives the timeline of asbestos claims, process and product development and first shipments…
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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 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 · November 4, 1974
W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt, R. J. Klotzbach, F. H. Larrison and J. L. Myers on Shrink Wrapping Bags to Control Fill-Valve Leakage (1974)
Memo from W. C. Thurber, with a copy line for O. J. Malocarne of Niagara Falls, New York, to four recipients. It says leakage from the fill valve is a major problem in packaging asbestos. It asks for an individual bag shrink film oven and a bag…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 14, 1974
R. E. Byrne, Jr. Report of Call on Envirotech Research Center about RG-600 in Reinforced Polypropylene (1974)
Call report by R. E. Byrne, Jr. on a visit to Envirotech Research Center, Salt Lake City, to learn about its interest in RG-600 (Calidria pellets) for asbestos-reinforced polypropylene. It records the customer's expected volume, a brief discussion…
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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 · 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 · December 2, 1975
F. H. Ancker to W. C. Thurber on Visit to General Electric Appliance Park About RG-600/Polypropylene and OSHA Requirements (1975)
…monitoring for regrinding operations. It recommends top priority for the inquiry and help with OSHA compliance. Copies went to several Union Carbide recipients, and tables on the GE division and the parts under evaluation are attached.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Kleber Customer Call Reports and F. H. Ancker Memo to W. C. Thurber on General Electric's RG-600/Polypropylene Evaluation (1975-1976)
…R. E. Byrne Jr., General Electric, Louisville KY, call of 3/4/76; Marvin Wilson interviewed; OSHA medical-exam concerns hold up evaluation Union Carbide internal correspondence, F. H. Ancker to W. C. Thurber, December 2…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 15, 1974
Calidria Call Reports on Hoosier Fiberglass Industries re RG-600 Thermoformed HDPE Sheet and Dust Counts (1974)
Two Union Carbide Calidria call reports on Hoosier Fiberglass Industries of Terre Haute, Indiana. The 10/15/74 report describes observing thermoforming of HDPE containing RG-600 and collecting dust counts, and the 7/31/74…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 29, 1980
P. R. Sherman Design Memorandum on Asbestos Bagging Improvement at King City (1980)
Design memorandum (Design Memo No. 1, Revision No. 0, File No. 11217) by P. R. Sherman on improving the bagging of asbestos shipments at King City, CA. It describes efforts to develop a dust-free bag with a better bag wrap and a bag closure system…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 11, 1974
G. J. Weihs, Chrysotile Asbestos Markets and Forecasts for Group 7, with W. C. Thurber Cover Note and Related Memos (1974)
…7', March 1974: summary, conclusions, tables and end-use sections Partial Union Carbide internal form (Berkshire Business Forms) with little legible content; apparently not part of the report Commercial Intelligence memo to William Thurber, May 9…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 1, 1984
Forsterite Material Safety Data Sheet with D. F. Kapral Transmittal Memos, Label and American Colloid Telecon Report (1984)
Material Safety Data Sheet for Forsterite, Umetco Minerals Corporation / Union Carbide, effective May 1, 1984 Internal memo, D. F. Kapral to J. T. Kelly, May 1, 1984, requesting transmittal of the Experimental Product Data Sheet and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 13, 1980
R. W. Rebholz to G. R. Bailey and Others on Asbestos Business Meetings (1980)
Memorandum dated March 13, 1980 announcing that, with the Mineral Products Meeting on March 27, Dr. Rhodes would discuss the current status of health-related regulations on the promotion and use of asbestos products. A discussion to update the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 8, 1982
D. F. Kapral to T. P. Norris on Status of the Asbestos-Blend Project for Asphaltic Products, with Attached Roof Cement Sample Report (1982)
Internal memo reporting on the project to use Calidria SG-130 asbestos in asphaltic roof cement. Seven formulations were sent to Gardner Asphalt Company for testing. The memo describes plans to characterize asbestos in King City overburden, ore and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 16, 1983
B. L. Ingalls to J. E. Walsh on the Revised Supervisbestos Product Quality Report and Viscosity Specification (1983)
Internal correspondence from Niagara Falls reporting the outcome of a February 2, 1983 review of the report "Supervisbestos, A Review of Product Quality, Test Methods and End Use Characteristics" ahead of discussions with Montello, Inc. It states…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 21, 1983
F. L. Smith to D. F. Kapral on the Estimated Business Loss if the Asbestos TWA Limit Drops to 0.5 Fiber/cc (1983)
Internal memo with an attached 10-page explanation and customer table estimating the business Union Carbide might lose if the allowable asbestos TWA fell from 2.0 to 0.5 fiber/cc. The memo says the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 2, 1977
G. L. Dickson to T. K. McCluhan on the December Safety Inspection (1977)
Memorandum reporting the results of a December 1977 safety inspection by a Union Carbide team in Niagara Falls. It rated overall conditions as extremely good, named the main criticism as temporary electrical extension cords and telephone…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 4, 1974
W. C. Thurber to O. J. Malocarne et al. on Bag Spout Leakage and Shrink Wrapping, with Earlier J. L. Myers Memo to Thurber on Packaging (1974)
Exhibit of two pages. Page 1 is a November 4, 1974 letter from W. C. Thurber to O. J. Malocarne and four others stating that leakage from the bag fill valve was a major packaging problem and requesting a bag shrink film oven and a bag cleaning…