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FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1977-1979 DOC JMA221 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memos - M Customer Meetings RE Asbestos & Health - GM Ford Bendix Chrysler AFD UM Manville r Internal Correspondence To M. Harris Date July 11 1977 From D. M. Kelleher Copies J MHutcheson D. Poutiatine EM Fenner - Asbestos - 2-04 - 1-06 JF Reis - 2-04 JP McCarthy - Toledo Subject ASBESTOS AND HEALTH MEETINGS - MAJOR CUSTOMERS G.E. G.M. FORD ETC. On June 16 Joe McCarthy and I met with Chrysler's Friction Materials Plant and Jim Reis Joe McCarthy and I met with a a group at General Motors the Plant Manager of on June 17 Ed Fenner group at Ford and later At General Motors Bill Krebs who holds a similar position to Bill Reitze or Dr. Kotin said he had nothing against asbestos fiber that was bound in He did not want to see friable or loose asbestos fiber in their operations The goal of the meeting was to determine how we could most effec- tively convince G.M. that asbestos could be It was their recommendation that we contact ment of individual Divisions and review the handled safely the top manage- situation on a Division by Division basis We are getting the names of the proper people to contact within each Division In the near future we will arrange for and conduct the meetings The meeting at Ford was with an Executive Engineer and a group drawn together to determine if Ford should develop an asbestos free automobile After the presentation and question and answer period we were asked if we would make a presentation jointly with Bendix and Boling's group to a group of Senior Managers in September Ford wants to continue using asbestos containing products They don't believe metallics are necessarily the answer and do not want to spend the time and money to redesign their braking system Chrysler's problem was primarily a labor problem They recently had a two week strike One of the major issues was asbestos and health We are sending the Plant Manager our Employee Relations literature We will keep you informed on our progress with these and other major accounts D. M. Kelleher DMK Manville Internal Correspondence To J.A. McKinney From J.E. Connor Copies D. Poutiatine 1-03 2-13 2-13 Date January 23 1979 Subject AFD SALES MEETING - MEXICO During our meeting you asked suggestions for handling the us to write to you with our Asbestos and Health problem On my return to Denver I learned that another one of our asbestos customers had given up GAF announced that they were shutting down their St. Louis Plant and would no longer manu- facture Asbestos Cement Cooling Tower Fill During the last quarter of Corrugated 1978 Sheet they Line had discontinued at St. Louis their Asbestos Cement Although we hate to see our customers give up we realize some of them will do this over the next few years We will do everything in our power in the asbestos products business to help our customers stay What will help us most is the support of our own Using Divisions Nothing see our will hurt our own Divisions cause going more than for our customers to out of asbestos using products Here is we need where you said your support you would help us and here is where I suggest you attend some Pipe and BSD Sales and Marketing meetings and let the troops know what our philosophies are on asbestos and asbestos products and what our strategies are for the future of these products We will continue to carry the M message both to our outside customers as well as with the Using Divisions however the message coming from you and from the top will make our job complete In the end if our customers see M promoting asbestos products aggressively in the market place they will get the complete message and will be more reluctant to give up the fight Again We got thank you for attending and participating in our meeting the message loud and clear as to how M stands on asbestos and asbestos products We will carry the message into our market place J.E. J.E. Connor JEC