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FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1972 Jan 31 DOC OC084 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo RE Developing an Asbestos High Temperature Insulation _ an oo. +27 ZEDAVIS SHANNON CC ZEDAVIS gpm Thi OnesoOnenson : FEB 3 1972 company correspondence to J. H. Thomas - Toledo 27 from date L. W. Saxby - Toledo 23 January 31 1972 subject W. W. Boeschenstein - 27 _ C. E. Peck - 25 / _ a Confirming our conversation of last Thursday here is a brief status report on high temperature insulation as you requested Immediate development of top priority program for an asbestos the Construction high temperature insulation is a Group and the Mechanical Products Division due to -- 1 Accelerating trend by owners and engineers to issue insula- tion specifications excluding products.containing asbestos Standard's 2 New Proposed Federal issued under the Occupational Safety and Health Act which will all probability signifi- cantly increase the installed cost of all products containing : asbestos In my a new three 1 _ this development development work must be completed in time to introduce judgment asbestos product by January 1 1973. Currently we are pursuing different programs to solve this problem as follows We are continuing on a priority basis our development of a completely new and improved high temperature product HTIS At this time we are conducting trials at Kenetics in Greenville S.C. on prototype equipment which utilizes an extrusion process This is the preferred product based upon preliminary physical and thermal test data and gross margin ... | co. projections : 2 Dick Shannon is currently evaluating all asbestos calcium silicate products now on the market in an attempt to find a combination of fibers that will produce a satio- factory asbestos Kaylo product utilizing our pan pour process manufacturing equipment in Berlin ) M has verbally offered to license our new asbestos They apparently want something from OCF in return pburtocweessdo not know what that something is at the moment The M development apparently uses glass fibers for rein- forcement but they do no eve that their process will . ee work in our pan pouT OF e . crue " We introduced in November & " product called Glaslag to be used This product con / . where mineral wool pipe insula was been specified alsts of strips of IS Board turned on end and adhered to an aluminum jacket It is recommended for operating temperatures up to 800 F. ve so es. | L,- ad nr wd; ate eet a, : aoe lw toa s ee . a . ; fee ., . e . > GT net s ; : , - soos 8 8 e ) . . " f LES / j ty - . oe fees P. Kera