588 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 12 of 30
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 3, 1968
D. S. Yamens to Paul W. McDaniel on Dust Particle Counts at the King City Plant (1968)
Internal correspondence from the King City, California facility to the Medical Department in New York, enclosing dust particle counts taken December 29, 1967. It states the bagging area was enclosed, designated no smoking or eating, and that workers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 27, 1963
Thomas W. Nale to Kenneth Lentz Transmitting P. W. McDaniel's Industrial Hygiene Report on the King City Mine and Plant (1963)
A cover memo from Medical Director Thomas W. Nale to Kenneth Lentz at King City forwards Paul W. McDaniel's report on his September 10-13, 1963 visit to the mine and plant. The report describes air sampling for dust, recommends respirators and a 5…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 3, 1968
Franklin D. Dexter to Arthur Nolan on Declining to Pursue a Sale of the Asbestos Mine and Plant (1968)
Letter from Franklin D. Dexter, Manager - Asbestos, replying to Arthur Nolan's inquiry to Mr. Rush on behalf of an interested buyer for the asbestos mine and plant. Dexter wrote that the matter should not be pursued at this time because the company…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 19, 1968
J. A. Riddle to Tom Frangos Returning Reports on Asbestos Toxicology, with Newspaper Clipping on Cancer Among Asbestos Workers (1968)
A one-page Union Carbide internal correspondence letter from J. A. Riddle at King City to Tom Frangos in New York, returning several reports on asbestos toxicology that Frangos had lent him. Riddle said he had…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 22, 1966
A. E. Pufahl to Sales Staff on Asbestos Toxicology and Customer Communication (1966)
…hazard following the opening of a Mt. Sinai Hospital laboratory, and directs recipients to give customers Dr. Dernehl's Asbestos Toxicology Report and to promote Union Carbide pellets as a low-dust way to handle asbestos.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1965
Paul W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle on a Planned California Department of Health Visit to Asbestos Operations (1965)
Internal Union Carbide letter from an industrial hygiene engineer to J. A. Riddle at King City, copied to K. W. Lentz. It said a California Department of Health physician, Dr. Christine Einert, planned to visit asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 20, 1969
G. B. Kelly and G. W. Buttrick, Project Report on Use of Asbestos as a Pigment in Paper Coatings (1969)
…project report (Project No. 113A28, File No. 12802) describing laboratory work on using Carbide's high-purity chrysotile asbestos together with clay as a pigment in paper coatings. It reports dispersion limits, effects on brightness, opacity…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 26, 1964
H. C. Chitwood to Dr. W. H. Dresher on Uses of Coalinga Asbestos in Sewage Disposal, Resins and Catalysis (1964)
Letter from H. C. Chitwood replying to Dr. W. H. Dresher's May 26 letter and attached report on experiments with Coalinga asbestos. He comments on asbestos use in sewage disposal, as a resin filler (work by Nat Zutty), and as a possible catalyst for…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 17, 1969
J. A. Riddle to Matthew M. Swetonic (Johns-Manville) Requesting Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports (1969)
A one-paragraph letter from the Union Carbide plant manager at King City, California, to the Public Relations Department of Johns-Manville Corporation in New York. It asked that Union Carbide be placed on the distribution…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 12, 1965
T. J. Hall to T. Dougherty, R. A. Miller, R. Stobaeus and T. R. van Fleet on Asbestos Toxicology Report and Customer Questions (1965)
Memorandum on the subject 'Asbestos Toxicology Report' reporting that recent technical meetings and wire-service summaries raised possible carcinogenic properties of asbestos and that customers might ask about it. It says Dr. C. U. Dernehl was asked…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 18, 1965
C. W. McGary and P. L. Smith, Summary Report on High Purity Asbestos as a Thixotrope for Polyesters (1965)
Summary report on a study of whether high purity asbestos from the Mining and Metals Division could replace Cab-o-sil as a thixotropic additive in hand lay-up polyester resins. It reported that 2.5 to 3.0 per cent asbestos gave thixotropy equivalent…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 7, 1968
R. S. Wishart, Jr. to F. D. Dexter on Possible Sale of the Calidria Asbestos Project to Johns Manville (1968)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting that Kenneth Rush had talked with Mr. Burnett of Johns Manville about the Calidria asbestos project, and that Burnett would respond in about three weeks. It discusses presenting the company as…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 11, 1968
F. H. Thompson Informal Report on Improving the Optical Properties of Paper with Asbestos T-135 (1968)
Informal laboratory report (Project No. 443-N11, File No. 15) on handsheet tests of King City Asbestos T-135 and asbestos-titania fillers as paper opacifiers. It compares drying temperature, slurry temperature, high-shear Waring Blendor opening, 1%…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 10, 1969
D. S. Kamens to Paul W. McDaniel Transmitting Dust Count Data from the King City Plant (1969)
Internal correspondence from D. S. Kamens at King City to Paul W. McDaniel of the Medical Department in New York, enclosing dust count data taken January 9, 1969. It lists sample results in MPPCF for the bagging, palletizing, refining, rock fiber,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 20, 1968
K. Park, Interim Report on Flow Data of Titanox-AT, Suntiox SA-15 and Ti-Pure LW Titanium Oxide Suspensions in King City Water (1968)
Interim laboratory report dated February 20, 1968, giving viscosity and flow data for suspensions of three titanium oxide products (Titanox-AT, Suntiox SA-15, Ti-Pure LW) in distilled water and in water prepared to match King City water hardness. It…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 22, 1966
A. E. Pufahl to Sales and Technical Staff on Asbestos Toxicology and Customer Communication, with Press Clipping and Dernehl Toxicology Report (1966)
…22, 1966, to sales and technical staff Newspaper clippings (New York Times and Herald Tribune) on Dr. Selikoff and the Mount Sinai asbestos findings Union Carbide Asbestos Toxicology Report by Carl U. Dernehl, M.D., and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 6, 1968
H. B. Rhodes Informal Report on Evaluation of Asbestos-Vansil Produced at King City as an Opacifying Agent for Paper (1968)
Informal report on two pilot-plant preparations of Asbestos-Vansil (asbestos coated with R. T. Vanderbilt's Vansil calcium silicate) made at the King City mill as an opacifying filler for paper. It covers chemical analyses, repulpability, handsheet…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 3, 1965
F. A. Mumpton and C. S. Thompson, Mineralogy of the Coalinga Asbestos Deposit, Research Report No. 65-50 (1965)
…the Coalinga asbestos deposit and the New Idria serpentinite body. It covers asbestos nomenclature, the history of Union Carbide's claims, the geology and mineralogy of the ore and weathering zone, the genesis of the deposit…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 7, 1964
C. W. McGary and G. W. Rausch, Status Report on Chemical Reactions of Asbestos (New Enterprises, Project 162D21) (1964)
A 1964 status report from the Chemicals Division's Research and Development Department on the chemical reactions of chrysotile asbestos with acids, unsaturated compounds, cyclic compounds and polymers. It also summarizes the division's asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 18, 1968
D. Varoli to J. F. Bertelsen, F. D. Dexter, W. J. Grenier and N. Pusey on Accounting and Financial Aspects of Asbestos Subsidiary (1968)
Internal Union Carbide memo stating that the Asbestos Business Team decided to operate the asbestos business as a separate, centrally controlled entity and that the Law Department had been asked to establish a subsidiary. It says…