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EJTS0G-003904 PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT MATERIALS________ 4he hunt for substitutes for asbestos A flurry of new products follows condemnation of asbestos as a hazard Increasing concern over the health haz ards associated with asbestos is shak ing up the makers of high-temperature insulation, a ubiquitous product that covers pipes and boilers in power plants, refineries, and other process fa cilities. Thu basic formula of the most com mon type of asbestos insulation has not changed in more than 20 years. It con sists of calcium silicate, which is made by chemically combining diatomaccous earth and lime, with asbestos added as a reinforcing binder. But now the gov ernment has tightened its regulations J exposure to asbestos dust, and the rkers who install insulation have ' Tcatcned industry with lawsuits. As result, the $30-milUon-a-year indus.ry is in a flurry of new-product devel opment: Pibrolward Corp. of San Francisco switched Iasi fall to an iwIroHtoHrfrcc calcium silicate. The company declines to disclose its new reinforcement, but says that it is a combination of a natu ral and a manufactured fiber. Accept ance has been so good that Fibrcboard now plans to double capacity--the first major expansion that the calcium sili cate industry has seen in years. Johns-Manville Corp. and OwensComing Fibcrglas Corp. are pushing research efforts to eliminate asbestos from their insulation products. J-M says that it has already reduced the as bestos content of one product from 12% to 7% in the last two years. OwensComing, which broadened its line of insulation materials in 1958 to include calcium silicate, has conducted plant trials of a product that uses glass fibers in place of asbestos. "We plan to introduce this product as quickly as possible,'' a spokesman says. CJ Philip Carey Co. of Cincinnati, a diion of 1'anacon Corp., which was ac(Uircd last spring by Jim Walter Corp., has had a non-asbestos product on the - arket since 1970. It uses perlite,- a vollic glass that expands when heated , form a lightweight aggregate of tiny spheres, and the perlite is rein forced with glass fibers. Carey claims that the product, called Carcytomp, meets the same temperature demands as the asbestos product - The tough new controls issued by the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration are a fresh spur to sup pliers to come up with substitute insu lating products. They do not ban as bestos insulation, but they impose a limit of five, asbestos fibers per cubic centimeter in the air that workers breathe. Their requirement that the air quality be monitored when asbestos is used may alone be enough to prompt many contractors to switch. In the courts.- Pressure for change started to build up well before the oska stepped in. Backed by research find ings that exposure to asbestos dust can lead to lung disorders, insulation work ers have been pressing compensation claims in court against contractors and, more recently, against manufacturcrs.- "I expect to see a lot more of these suits soon," says Andrew T. Haas, pres ident of the 18,000-member Inter national Assn, of Heat & Frost Insula tors & Asbestos Workera. The standard calcium silicate panels contain about 10% asbestos. And be cause the panels arc solid they do not produce the obvious environmental hazard of the loose aslicstos fibers that until recently were widely used to fire proof new buildings. But the dust gen erated in cutting and handling the panels during installation or removal carries enough asbestos to be hazard ous if it is not scrupulously controlled. "There is no practical way to elimi nate the dust problem completely," says L. Perry Holmes, president of Plant Asbestos Co., a California insula tion contractor. 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' <, ' chemical giant is "scrambling" to dis cover substitutes for asbestos insula tion in its plants. Robert Murfin, presi dent of b&b Insulation, Inc., in Houston, estimates that Fibreboard and Philip Carey have increased their penetration of the big Gulf Coast pet rochemical-plant market by about 7% in the last year. In another year, he predicts, non-asbestos products will ac- *We looked at materials costing $30 a pound, and they just didn't work' I i 4 U count for 70% of tho market, up from 35% today. Problems. For makers of insulation products, the problem has been to find a fiber that can do everything asbestos docs and do it at a reasonable price. Fibrcboard Corp. tested scores of' fillers, including redwood bark, before settling on its proprietary composition. "Asbestos runs about 8C a lb.," says Richard F. Gamble, manager of the company's industrial insulations plant. "Wo looked at materials costing $30 a lb., and they just didn't work." ' Besides being noncombustiblc, as bestos fibers arc jagged enough to hold the calcium silicate mixture tightly to gether, and they are resistant to the highly alkaline chemical reaction that is used in making the material. This re action, which is not a problem with the perlite used by Carey, tends to chew up glass fibers. "We tried fiber glass with all sorts of coatings," says Gamble, "and it just melted away." However, a spokesman for Owens-Coming, which is counting on use of glass liber, claims that the company recently solved a similar problem by developing an al-. kali-resistant fiber for reinforcing ce ment. The new products of Fibreboard and Carey do not in all cases perform as welt as the old ones. Vincent Lockary, subcontract supervisor for Bechtel Corp., the big engineering outfit, says that Fibreboard's product is "adequate but not as good as asbestos." And Carey's product manager, Charles Ho- shaw, concedes that his new perlite product "has advantages and disadvan tages." 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