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PLAINTIFF'S F.XHIBIT CAP-202 P . REPORT ON AIA MEETING/MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. r I AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE CONFERENCE - June 4,5,6,1975 AIA/NA Meeting held In Minneapolis In conjunction with AIHC to enable all members to attend both meetings. Highlights of AIA meeting was conference with Alex Cross (Cape) and Doctors Wright and Kotin. Jntacts at meeting: CAPCO/Horace Beasley Announced price increase of 20% on BK/e asbestos, which received ver/ coot reception. Beasley comrnentejMney would no longer be competitive (ith cast iron pipe, fUrthei^cu?mi5Tlcatlng sales in an already depressed ma^<et..^Also advi^ed^that PVC sales wer^e off 80% this year to date. ATLAS ASBESTOS/George Barge ,, `f ,*f" Discussed disposal of 14 pallets Blue delivered in error to Atlas. George had learned of price increase but had not received actual figures. Barge now advises^be feels Canadian Government will eventually ban Blue asbestos, General feeling is that if two/three weeks it could UNION CARBIDE/Jlm Thurber y '^'r-V'.. V" v-;*;.;.:... y'k \ < / * ' ' ^ \w ' ... '-V\ \ -j. / : " .-t Discussed UC's program of pelletizing Chrysotile asbestos. Jim states they hre rather disappointed with sales, which are presently limited to .the paper,industry. Apparent problemsls customers with proper equipment to use pellets. He was not,too optimistic as to the future of this opehatton. *. f-' }' l - ... . *.&?:. CERTAINTEED/Tom Dougherty . '' r Tom advises they are now using Russian Chrysotile (8,000 ton contract) and ' Central's ML6 Blue (4,000 ton'contract) to produce a/c pipe. ;Xorr\gqniplained bitterly about Blue price increase by Central. Russian fibre is apparently ,/ ^competitive. They anticipate further price increases from Canadian Chrysotile , producers when strike is settledRussian fibre is received in containers -- {' atl gracies mixed together. * > fI CAP 022094