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1 we would tell to the fabrics industry should be quite
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2 different in its interpretations than the story we
3 tell to the thermal insulation industry.
4 To my mind, it would not be advisable to try
5 to tar other competitive products with the same
6 stick.
7 In the first place, this might lead to a cat
8 and dog fight in the industry. In the second place,
9 some of these other materials are known to develop
10 industrial diseases that we do not find present in the
11 handling of fiberglass such as asbestosis and possibly
12 silicosis. Most of these other materials are very
13 dusty as compared to fiberglass.
14 It seems to me that we should try to
15 dissociate ourselves from these other materials rather
16 than to bring them into the same category with
17 fiberglass.
18 As one chap put it, our material may have
19 the same itch that is present in the other materials,
20 but at least we are not dusty or dirty.
21 This was by a Mr. T.S. Rogers. He was the