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FILE NAME: Kaiser Gypsum (KG)
DATE: 1971 Dec 27
DOC#: KG008 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter from KG to Carey-Canadian Mines Ltd. RE Asbestos as a Possible Health Hazard
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December 27, 1971
Product types (continued)
Wall texture: A dry powder texture for job mixing with water and
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either hand or spray application. It is usually applied by con
ventional compressed air paint spray.guns in "fog" or "splatter"
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patterns.
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Ceiling texture: A dry powder lightweight aggregate spray texture
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for job mixing with water. It is usually applied by means of large
orifice compressed air spray guns In a "splatter" pattern. Over
spray on the walls is scraped off by means of wide blade scrapers while still wet.
Laminating Compound: A dry powder product similar to the Joint Compounds used as an adhesive to bond one layer of gypsum wallboard to another. It Is spread by hand or by mechanical spreader.
Specifically, what precautions should be recommended for:
a. Job mixing of dry powder materials
b. Spray application of slurried materials
e. Cleanup of empty bags, spills, overspray, droppings
d. Sandpapering of applied and dried joint cementing compounds containing asbestos fibers.
h. a. Scope of existing legislation restricting the use of asbestos in product manufacture and in the end use of these products.
b. Scope and probable timing of national or local legislation
you *r aware of which might be enacted restricting or
prohibiting the use of asbestos in product manufacture
and in the end use of these products.
Please reply to me with a copy to J. S. Sheahan, Research Department, Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc., P.0. Box U60, Antioch, California 9^509.
Very truly yours,
Commodity Purchasing Manager
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