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FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1967-1968 DOC JMA254 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memos - Spray ~ ' AL104270055 AL104270055 AL104270055 | Merchandise Bulletin fifi fiflfifi fi fifl fi 21 Mvision Mvision ; te 24 - i INDATION OF SPRAY me ng Organisation Leet oRfffeAcptpivaey Jtahnruoaurgyh ,the19M38anwevi arl e lgoeingSalteosdisentase the handst wer premice We have tried for the post overal youre to bellare and other large bested equipe Spray for we of eusesee. . pets No still feel there is a place for a . at mile carters will ast eye alt ve, itetag J-fgvey, this rsheoduulndthaisveGAsoPCOPOP UVOEUefV feE ct wohnicanhgwiolftebvee aintteestveatlgable4rcaennpgahrebticx United States Mineral Producte company of Stanhope, Tu Jerry Ibis pany his base supplying us our Spray . - any of you have any 10's svat able svattable svatable situe help ww. J. 7. O'Rourke Vice President for sed state Marvel Yeeduste, will be writing directly to our 10's aukiag svattable situe situe of ayyu products If g highly recoym ou m cone tacn t Md r. enhandise Spacy be hes been aves help to we in our over to enhandise Spacy If there are any outstanding concrets please let a new 00 we can receive how they should be handled may 8 9 7 _ .: Adguet Westen . ks PooGrtoupatmceagtee a . , xy w: rad . 4 swe: rs . . rw an ae onal, epee * at R- . i w, e va G. Donovan Research C Blo { cor C. B. Burnett N. vi Hendry File U. 3. MINERAL PRODUCTS VISIT JANUARY 24TH a, Me meeting carrying WARNING At the sales I mentioned the C.A.F.C.O. bag which has been a ue oO CAUTION sign on asbestos fibre for years I'm mailing one of these bags to each of you It says CAUTION - This product contains asbestos Inhalation of asbestos dust over long periods may be harmful If employees are exposed to dust during use in applica- tion those employees should be equipped with adequate personal devices . -~. Jin Verhalen now President of U. S. Mineral Products was most anxious to discuss our position paper He mentioned and I saw a draft of a press release which the Sprayed Mineral Fibre Manufacturers Association are preparing and will issue shortly It will say that any worker within 10 ft they describe the mask to be used of mixing or spraying area must wear s mask " wwe .e and "38h . . toe saying He said we now have very good medical advice and even Dr. Ribicoff is nice things about M these days ; label untiulntil ce aed oe It occurred Jan. 1968 - to me that U. S. M. M SPRAY Jim was making a said that as product for us under M far as he knew there was no up warning caution on the M baga | Co ne meg et While in the plant collecting the Cafco bags which I am sending you I asked says they wo still had a M SPRAY bag around To everyone's surprise here is what it says| - Caution - This product contains asbestos fibre - inhalation of asbestos in excessive . quantities over long periodosf time maybe harmful If dust is created when this pro- Pneumoconiosis , respirators ductis handled breathingdust Ifadequate ventilation control is not pos- ~ sible wear approved by the 5. Bureau of Mines for i e to C. B. Burnett ~ * Incidentally git e Sprayed Min fil riformerly Carey of and Smith & Kansler now Secretary of thedis dis I Assoc phoned me in New Haven last week and asked that . letter appeared cuss the subjeat furtherswith his ao appears Ik tabegc this letter copy tionss -I emincluding with this ates an article which sulationizingpublisan:glandNovembe1r 967 tt . in the In- H. A. Boisclair .. PRODUCED ae ae Tae, . JM PRODUCED To Be Made Effective 1/1/68 ay. (@ UM UM Merchandise Bulletin| 59A35-33x id INDUSTRIAL INSULATIONS DIVISION mee 6 eat 59A35-33x | So 59A35-33x a . | FINDERNE E.M. sot FENNER . Amy 4/1 /21 Division November 16 1967 DISCONTINUATION OF SPRAY . . Manville the Effective January 1 of Spray through 1968 we are going to discontinue the merchandising Sales Sales Organization oof en We have tried for the past several years to promote Spray for use on boilers and other large heated equipment without much success oo . We still feel there is a place for a spray type product Although we at Manville Headquarters will not be merchandising Spray this _ should have no adverse affect on any of our contractors A comparable product is CAFCO Shield which will be made available through the & United States Mineral Products Company of Stanhope New Jersey This 2% company has been supplying us our Spray Mr. J. F. O'Rourke Vice President for United States Mineral Products will be writing directly to our ICU's making available a line of spray products If any of you have any questions on spray in the future I _ highly recommeynodu contact Mr. O'Rourke as he to us in our endeavor to merchandise Spray has been most helpful ; they If there are hacnodnlterdacts how resolve any outstanding be should | : please let me know so we can August PociusPocius a Product GroupManager General Headquarters November 14 1967 rrr) E. M. Fenner - Finderne - : wee > eres ch a Fireproofing Structural Members Confirming our earlier conversations on October + ou 24 Dr. R. ed deTreville advised us of the problem being created by the spraying of Pittsburgh the He structural members of the Oliver Buildinign 7 raised a question as to whether we had recom- mendations public questions concerning for the control exposure of the process and might be answered how per In subsequent discussion with our Insulations Division : sonnel I determined that Manville no longer manufactures a spray material We do however sell asbestos fiber to several companies who do manufacture such a product Since M is identified with asbestos fiber whether not the product is ours it would be in order to establish con- tacts with the producing companies to alert them to the poten- . approaches of tial problems and to stimulate some engineering the control the spraying process :to rss hot ge It was sometimeagothat L. Shecklerwas in touch gun Baldwin S. MineralWool jccS .. Mineral Wool Company on the matter spray principal MAP The Insulationa Division advises that the product : of the are U. producers and , and #5 Robert T. P.deTreville M.D. M.D. Industrial Hygiene Foundation