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FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1970 Feb 17 DOC OC080 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo RE Asbestos Free Kaylo Ear C. Glosser Tolado ASBESTOS FREE KAYLO P. T. Saverstrom - Toledo February 17 1970 R. J. Shannon - Granville D. O. Richards - Granville P. H. Scheuerle - Berlin J. P. Kern - Toledo 388 There are a couple of things in Dick Shannon's letter of January 28 to you which I would like to comment on be I think Dick should commended on his thorough status report on First Asbestos Kaylo His report clearly brings the problem into sharper focus and as such makes me more concerned over our probability for success The thing that is most evident is the lack of people working on this ~ . Even though the various support groups in our development area is plarboojreacttory are working on the problem Shannon's only supported at a man level ae a tte Sp . 7 wo. te we My question is whether our project was funded on the basis ofeoanremaxraknedand e was if so being used It ay understanding that 50,000 was double for this project in 1970. I suggest that at the very minimus we e our research and development on this project ee ee . ote : ie e Dick Shannon's words substantially increase the odds for We must to use where more and more emphasis will be put we we success We are entering an era This will include the growing concern of asbestos as on our environment & pollutant and health hazard run into a problem with Dow Chemical and I have been told WpeoihnatveblaalnrkebaydyduPont's specification people that that company will require asbestos free material in 1971 In Dick Scannon's last trip to Manville he noticed more than a dozan in one laboratory alone working on glass reinforced calcium silicate people we will be virtually out of the calcium If M should solve this problem within five years Our silicate business with our present product pollution and environmental government is being forced to put emphasis I believe in the very near controls As such we will feel this situation future and must be prepared PISIsac CC M. O. Neber