26 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 30, 1971
Union Carbide Call Reports on Glidden-Durkee Questions About Asbestos Toxicity and RG-244 (1971-1973)
Compilation of four Union Carbide call reports about Glidden-Durkee, a paint and resin maker, and its use of Calidria RG-244 asbestos. Glidden staff raised toxicity and liability concerns, discussed Union Carbide's asbestos toxicology…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 21, 1971
Correspondence between J. W. Rawlings (Union Carbide) and G. W. Johns (Western Chemical & Manufacturing Co.) on Distribution and Grinding of Calidria (1971)
Exhibit of three letters. On April 5, 1971 Western Chemical & Manufacturing Company wrote Rawlings about reselling Calidria asbestos fiber bought from the King City mill and expanding distribution in California. Rawlings replied on April 21, 1971,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1971
Correspondence between J. W. Rawlings (Union Carbide) and G. W. Johns (Western Chemical & Manufacturing Co.) on Reselling and Grinding Calidria Pellets (1971)
Three letters from April 1971. Western Chemical & Manufacturing Company (April 5) wrote to Union Carbide's J. W. Rawlings about reselling Calidria asbestos in California. Rawlings replied on April 21 and mentioned the possibility of Western…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 22, 1971
J. E. Klein and H. B. Rhodes Call Report on Marco Chemical, Bartow, Florida (1971)
Report of a regular call on Marco Chemical of Bartow, Florida, a polyester resin maker and Calidria distributor. It covers production of RG-244 resin, a skin irritation problem among workers, complaints about a fast wet-out resin, and distributor…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 23, 1972
W. N. Johnson to J. W. Rawlings on the June 22, 1972 Asbestos Information Association Meeting (1972)
…Association/North America in New York. It covers how attendees read the June 7 OSHA asbestos regulations, publicity and press matters, union criticism, research needs, legal advice and planned AIA subcommittees. The attendee list and meeting…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 15, 1971
P. W. McDaniel and J. L. Myers Report of Call on EPA Office of Air Programs Regarding Calidria Pellets and Asbestos Emission Standards (1971)
Report of a June 1971 meeting between Union Carbide staff and EPA Office of Air Programs personnel (Source Control Branch) to discuss how Calidria pellets and the production system reduce asbestos dust. It records EPA's…
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · April 7, 1972
M. A. Peters to W. N. Johnson on Experimental Results for Airborne Asbestos, Part II (1972)
Memorandum from M. A. Peters reporting experimental work on a method of estimating airborne asbestos by measuring magnesium with atomic absorption spectroscopy instead of counting fibers. It covers reagent and filter blanks and air samples from four…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 1, 1972
R. E. Byrne, Jr. to F. H. Larrison on New Interim Plant Control Limits for RG-244, RG-244X and SX-24 (1972)
Internal correspondence from the Research and Development Department to the King City plant listing new interim plant control limits for RG-244, RG-244X and SX-24 (moisture, wet screen, pH, polyester viscosity, TiO2). The memo says the changes were…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 22, 1971
J. L. Myers Report of Call on Telecons with EPA's Dr. J. U. Crowder about Proposed Asbestos Emission Standards (1971)
Report of call summarizing telephone conversations on 10/12, 10/21 and 11/16/71 between J. L. Myers and Dr. J. U. Crowder of the EPA in Durham, N.C., about the status of EPA's proposed emission standards for non-occupational asbestos exposure. It…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 19, 1971
H. B. Rhodes Call Report on Telecon with Ken Campbell of Montello, Inc., on Arcovis Order, Oilbestos Lots and Imcobest/Visquick Inventory (1971)
Call report of a telephone conversation between H. B. Rhodes and Ken Campbell of Montello, Inc., a UCC distributor in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. It covers a forewarned 63-ton Arcovis order for Atlantic-Richfield, Oilbestos inventory for a Canadian oil…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 10, 1971
J. E. Skvarla to P. J. Colpoys on Weighting Agent Made from King City Asbestos Tailings (1971)
Internal correspondence from J. E. Skvarla to P. J. Colpoys reporting that an experimental 180 lb lot of oil well weighting agent made from King City plant tailings had been shipped. It lists the lot's specifications against the required ones, gives…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 27, 1971
Patrick J. Morgan to J. W. Rawlings Enclosing Synopsis of Existing and Proposed Asbestos Legislation (1971)
Letter from Patrick J. Morgan of the Law Department to J. W. Rawlings of the Mining and Metals Division, enclosing a synopsis of existing and proposed asbestos legislation requested in Rawlings' September 10, 1971 letter. The enclosure summarizes…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 15, 1971
P. W. McDaniel and J. L. Myers Report of Call on EPA Source Control Branch about Calidria Pellets and Asbestos Emission Standards (1971)
…and the King City production system reduce asbestos dust, the EPA's work on emission standards for non-occupational exposure, and recommended follow-up actions for Union Carbide staff, including tests on cancer and mesothelioma development.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 8, 1976
W. C. Thurber to R. E. Byrne and Others Transmitting Revision I of the 1977-1981 Five Year Forecast, with Asbestos Planning Data and Sales Forecast Sheets (1976)
Four pages from Union Carbide Metals Division long-range planning files: a handwritten cost assessment worksheet for asbestos plant products, a Long Range Plan data sheet for the Asbestos strategic planning unit, a June 8, 1976…