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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 June 17 DOC NMA155 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Chemical Week Article - Asbestos Builds for Steady Growth aa e Asbestos Asbestos Asbestos builds builds for steady steady growth growth growth growth growth growth growthgrowth growth World markets are paced by use in building products accent on pollution control buoys pipe business and aids asbestos growth in this country Asbestos producers have problems They are concerned about being cited . a potential source of enviroginental poltion And they don't like the thought of kosang markets to other materials that are more expensive but less objec tionable in terms of health CHF Mur 13. p 17 Yet Yet a hit hit : vironment and health does not seem be at all bad for asbest The market a firm and prices are moving up The highest material No. 1 crude is now 1.525 Caca dian dollars FR above the pese two years ago And No. 4 shingle fiber volume product sells at 21 369 ampared with 201-214 900 in spring '68 U.S. complaich which wi Gees 65 xb X.esa of Western world output have ue ot . ... - ot tet Se ... pr afenon Muu " " Skrywer Skrywer ... un Maxi :: :: cee . veuEN mesticallymestically this year Tins will meet only 15 of Jomestic needs Most of the rest comes from Canada which produce 75 of Western countries output exports about 95 of its production about 15 of which comes to the U.SL U.SL New capacity being readied will add about 10 to Western world output duning the Beal two years And that wil just about match the anticipated in- Max in mand But it conunued market growth over the long ter mes pat pressure on available supplies bas For Prrer ate) au. aves For example Freeport Sulphur is evaluating Mexican deposits estimated at 25 milion tons which : hopes to develop for the American building market see also p 67 And Cerro Corp as planning a Greet project for product tion of 40,000 year It will require at least 15 million to get this venture under way Small Lass Bigger Gaia Asbestos producers producers untually capoci u zain liger markets than they may lose because of environmental and health problems On the minus side sprayed insulation The New York World Trade Center proist may take as much as 5,000 tons for this application But few building projects will ux as much tcfi ithat amount And line of thm qua edias bestos busness because of this bealth hazards it presents would remove " market that is less than 5 of total con- sumption On the other hand the market for aw cement drainage and sewage Paps Meee lec growing di Mee yeas rau could increase as the emphasis on pollution control accelerates And this could help total US market growth- growth---- --o...nly ycar computed with % year for the rest of the world Being Alarkets One reason for the slower U.S. market growth rate is that about 45 of the asbestos produced is used in pipe The biggest fastest ing market is in asbestos cement build- Un poiniuedin it used as roiniutang materal at a level of 10-30 10-30 of product BE crew eed GE e Feb me we ee bee 7 we ' cee Ee L caeeee PARAAN sabees 102 Ucal Dific tt CYLI Soeeee ... mates They can be made casly with unskilled lab and experie mmiphe equipment They are lighte strong waterproof and will not rust of rot And they resist attack from insects and fung Asbestos sheet is also a major build- ing material throughout Europe And it As a bisk construction matchal in Ja- pan where the asbestos market now approaching SULIEU tomycar and growing growing at a rate of 152 Near Although Western Europe's ashestov promisation is growing in uspenes on imported material mainly from Canada to supply time than 80 of its needs Japan is less sufficient has only 20,000 domestic produc- tion Rusia which produces shout 2.2 million year of asbestos mined primanly in the Urals has domestic re- quirements of about 1.8 million year Soviet exports mostly to Western and Eubin Lutupkan todi tries grew rapidly from '65 to ts They dropped in '69 prompting some observe ers ki speculate that Soviet production has remained relatively static over the past two th^< years following a buildup during the mid- b^c However Russian exports particu- Lady to Frame Gumany and Japan- have risen recenth are now at level of about 200.000 year But U.S. pro- doven are not concerned shows furth expansion of Soviet exports They say that demand within Russia is high and Vos the rapid growth of Eastern E. espan Matices Matices wii sop up any caces pro lucive Mu swer it is unlikely that the Ran sans will want to dump ashkaan on the world market market says one observer Rea- son a complaint made in a Soviet trade Kumai una Canadian exporters were cumpeting unfairly in L^dern Fu ropean markets by granung confidential druounts on long contract But another marketer points out that much of the Soviets Soviets asbestos expUFISA expUFISA a political purpose This makes in diffe CHS DY Eve in Mewiet expan expan me ro KC Curepi sing a VANDENIA VANDENIA t it protems protems Pers are complicated of of h ae lieens by the . char and resistant to us can restrict the mark of same pr^>vlici Pro essing car .* change the fitur . characters And industry mast find markets that will fit particular fiber rather than trying to tailor a fiber for a particular market As a revil at the necessly necessly to bans market producers often must stockpile stockpile HUETS OF UITLErent rengins and types for use at later time Much of the development of ne markets is being channeled mt areas that put a premium on one or more characteristics of an asbestos fiber Ex- ample / Carbide's Coulinga Calif mine produces a fiber that is used for filling plasties thickering thickering s rface coating and opacifying fine pa- per In amini wn A change & mar^ ct demands has led Manville Mi reclaim largs konnages of asbestos its Jettres Que mine Lilies for With development development of res usis and the increasing emphasis on polutein control the steady growth of asbestin markets seenis assured IND June 17 1970 CHEMICAL WILK 113 aS