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Tomoe Engineering Company. Ltd. MAtM O^ICIi DAJK} MAHUZKN UlL.OlNtt I. NIHONlAAHI I'CHOHI. CHUO-KU TOKTO. JA^AK (ANNEX OFFICE) SHIN SHIN KAIKAN BUILDING 14*1, N1HONBASHI 3-CHOME, CHUO-KU TOKYO, JAPAN CABII AOOHCII: "tOMOT** tvlkk dzaassoa comot tok TIUFMONI , TOKYO tTA-OAlt Date of Call': February 23 , 1973 Customer: Telnite Co, Interviewed Persons: Messrs, B. Okino, Manager, Technical & Development Dept. M, Sano, Depute Section Chief, Tech. Laboratory I, Morimoto, General Affairs Dept. Visited by: Messrs, J. L. Myers - UCC F. S. Wada - UCSEL H. Fukuma - TEC S, Sumioka - TEC 1. Various kinds of asbestos Mr, Myers explained to them that asbestos is classified into 2 groups of Serpentine and Amphibole as shown below, and th-ere are more than 300 applications of chrosotile asbestos. Asbestos I Serpentine(95$) I Chrysotile -----------, Amphibo1e(5$) I Crocidolite { Amo site Anthophylite Actinolite Tremolite 2, Applications of Chrysotile asbestos in the U. S. Asbestos Cement Floor Tile Building Products Drilling Mud 50,000 tons/year 150 - 200,000 " 5 - 100,000 " 5,000 (very small) Total Abt. 800,000 tons/year Domestic Products 80,000 tons/year Imported Products 720,000 " UCC 008554 3. Application for drilling mud in the U, S. Bentnite had been used for drilling mud until 4 to 5 years ago. When Bentnite and asbestos are mixed on a fifty, fifty basis for drilling mud, the reology effect will be more than 10 times of the effect with Bentnite only. Furthermore, Bentnite is not usable in salt water, but asbestos is usable in fresh and salt water and the effect remains the same, and heat resistance of asbestos is better than that of Bentnite. Super Visbestos (UCC nomenclature is SG-200X) will be mini-pelletized from May this year. 4 Asbestos market in the U. S. California Ore -r- Union Carbide(wet process) 4 Montello Inc.{30/>) "Visbestos" *1 RSnunpi>epr Visbestos" - Johns - Manville 4 Drisco "Flosal" 4 Phillips - Atlas Corp. "Bascobestos" 5. Distribution route of Super Visbestos UCC -4> Montello Dresser -^4 Magcobar Drilling Co, ( exclusive) "Visquik" "Super Visbestos" V Baroid j Lybia * I.M.C. \ Iran To mo e "Imcobesto s" x, U. K, 'North Sea 4 Oil Co, Telnite "Super Visbestos" 6. Dusting problem Mr. Myers explained to them that Calidria asbestos is safe in many applications on a broad basis and UCC will publish its viewpoint of the safety in the use in April & May issues of "Oil & Gas Journal". - 2- UCC 008555