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FILE NAME Insulation Contractors & Distributors ICD DATE 1973 Jan 22 DOC ICD055 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter to WA Dept of Labor from Tacoma Asbestos Co. RE Comments on Program in Cleanup of Airborne Asbestos Fibers *** EDIA EDIA NAESTIOSSNAESTIOSS NAESTIOSS 10 P. O. BOX 1135 fi TACOMA WASHINGTON 98401 4 Mr. Carl Hangold 7 Department of Labor Safety & Health Administration 1908 506 Second Avenue Seattle , WaWsahsihnigtnognton 98104 Dear Sir January 22 1973 RECEIVED DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OSHA AREA OFFICE JAN 21 3 199773 3 SEATTLE WASHINGTON Program in Cleanup of Airborne Asbestos Fibers < Cementer In June of 1971 we started to phase out all Asbestos Caments and Fibers We want from 85 Magnesia Cament CalciumSilicate Cement Caltemp and Manville 352 Short Fiber to Mineral Cements and by June of 1972 we eliminated all of these items and went to a straight Mineral fiber cement for fittings and insulation such an Weber 48 Cements_md Cements_md Ryder Industries Kote Cements and by Jime 1972 Fiberboard Mineral Paper Company's 127 Cement formilated out of Cement asbestos fres Fiber and Pabco's Caltemp Fine Covering All Asbestos Paper Covering such as Aircell was phased out in earley 1968 md Fiberglas Pipe Insulation umufactured by Neovilla Gustin and Owens Corning Fiberglas were substituted md afrcall is nowheres now used in our industry in the Horti^rest Earley in 1971 we used and subsituted fiberglas on all jobs where awarding agencies would approve it in lieu of 85 Magnesia md Calcium Silicate Where we could not get approval our temperature vork continued with Thermobestos Kaylo and Caltemp brand namas for Calcium Silicatan The big brask thru in asbestos free Calcium Silicates came in Spring of 1972 when cha Fiberboard Fuper Co. perfected their calcium silicata pipe insulati : Caltamp and they started manufacturing Caltemp Aabastos Free and have continuad since then All of our calcium silicates with asbestos fiber were put in front of the piles and sold and used and at the present writing we have less than 30 cartons of material possessing mbenton Elber By June of 1973 we will have no material in Pipe Insulation with asbestos fiber in our warehouses or on jobsites Wa understand that Kaylo and Thermobastos two other name brands in the field are now sabestos free Asbestos Paper Asbestos Millboard Asbestos Tapes and Wickiara vere phased out in Saptof 1972 and are no longer part of our business This item was usually sold to hardware stores shipyarda welding supply bouses and sheet metal fabricators in the heating business 277 Bo. toe el Pee Beet hy eae Le eed . toa tee a a Feo mre Pug FEN eee pas rma tat, we TacomaAsbestos000009 175040147 175040147 175040147 AKBANOS AKBANOS 02 P. 0.50X ' TACOMA WASHINGTON 98401 Page 2 January 22 1973 Elmkats f^rT^...rbinna Exhaust Piping and Portable Insulation Pude We have aliminated the me of ^ moeiteinsulation complataly and Tempugt Blankata now base material hara substitued hi temparature refractory mineral in nature Braad ammen Certafelt and for hi temperature over 750 are made with this corante type material Vader 750 Corning hi temperature fiberglas is fas fiberglas unad The inside of our blankata are now Inconel Stainless Steel Kaub the outside cover fiberglas for temperature undar md American Asbestos Textila Corp arbustos treated cloth Thermlos Enclosed baruwith is copy of America's letter md product sheet Therma- Liann d Lg ing Fiber Glass data on thair fiberglas lagging cloth We in the insulation contracting field feel that by the mid of 1973 the word our plan aabnet^swill disappear from no part of our business vocabulary as va and hope asbestos will be Yours very truly as a mr wm a re me 278 to: 9? bone Lee Ray ceuce Ble RIG Ls ald a Ct Nettivet mei bind + mee 49/000 = hs, SPOON TacomaAsbestos000010