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t >c u 6Kl!*T9<3 OWENS CORNING FIBERGLAS CORPORATION INTRA-COMPANY CORRESPONDENCE General Offices Toledo, Ohio(l) Aiiaeea ol Ur. E.C. Ame* - Toledo December 10, 1943 Subject !:.fTRN:E TO n SPESTOS - TIBER3LA S combinations IN ANShXRS TO POST nA- --UESTIOKNAIRS OF S.-'PT. 18 CC: Ur. C. E. Gregor; - Toledo Porter - Electrical I'rder i-vrevenents to exletlng Fiberglas product* magnet wire includes: a Ferhips a combination of Fiberglas and asbestos would be*more satisfactory, although Collyer Insulated Wire and Cable are well satisfied with our sliver." Suffalo - Electrical Under new riber&las products: "For design engineers who are die-hards arid refrain fro:/' using Fiberglas because of real and imagined difficultlee of impregnation and abrasion, I suggest a more complete development of Fiberglassrestos product* to augment our present all gias3 materials. Con trary to the belief of some, I do not tea a tremendous future for Glesbestos In the electrice.2 fialdalthoogh it will have itr ap plications and will pay its way. In my opinion its potential lies `.r. the fabrics field." ;.e- Tori: - Electrical Under r.er Flberglftf^produets: asv tricel w. ... io^lEVTS gliW^fimV'lf tfbheirfWad, fcut what we have nt'fd of is a thing we are'Setting and th#t"Sj| `FTberls; an# asbestos r*ih'nriTrr>r itrtWrin nittmil the use of tfms* In t*t electrical field and give us a more properly rounded out line. "The addition of this new produet to our post-war line will take away nothing from Fiberglas, but will add volume in new products of singular characteristics. I expeet big things of this combination and let no one think that it is going to detract from all glace volume !r the electrical field, for it will not. Glass *211 only be used where, from the standpoint of design, economies and sarviee experience it is indicated that it should be used. A combination of materials of any kind will be used if, from the standpoint of design and/or economy it is indicated that that particular combination should be used, he are in the throes now of working out specifications, sites, etc. on this material. This will develop as we pursue it." Over) A' Bosten-Fcbrles 3% ,4 * 'Jr.ier new products: * o combination textile of Fiberglas, asbestos, or other yarns might h&ve a w-.rket where very high strengths ere required, such as the manufacture of rayon buckets." Cleveland - Fabrics A eoraent is edced to the answers: - "Further, the rubber textile technicians should be encouraged to develop combined yarn (glass and asbestos, etc.) to facilitate thA^.r use ir. that industry. Nev vorl: -'Kuhrics Vihat competitive products now cerve this market with Fiberglast "In the f-brics field , the principal qualities Flbergle.s offers are e /com.pletely inorganic, fire-proof material, used singly or in eombinati? ns with esbestos, gre&t strength, non-stretch, etc. The share of the total market obtained by Fiberglas: "Tne overall market for fabries of a kind such as Fiberglas and/or asbestos and glass combinations are so vast that Fiberglass today has net mad* e sufficiently large dent to be recorded in the way of a percentage, we have done nothing, but can and will do much." Mttsburgh - Fabrics he* rro^ucts needed: "Ir. our estimates we hevs indiaatad a ema^l amount of business from Siasb-stos. This is predi afrt upon the agumption th*t tfc*.proper Slashestor fabric be satisfactorily car* in tha-fua* . :>v fiirtr - Shi ftfrtj T^SSk ~jf New Fitergias prodjats: *-- ""'e should have, ano can have product of Fiberglos and asbestos board for use as bulkhead and partition material aboard ships. Design of this product, reports covering it., the solution to the screw holding problem have all been previously reported and it only remaine for us to go before the Maritime Commission and the Bureau of Ships with a satisfactorily tested produet and request approval, after which ve can sell it. "This volume would be every bit comparable to our present board volwt aboard ships but would exeeed it because the same product would be .used ir. buildings and etructurew on .land - now and in .the post-war period. / S kr.' E. C. Ames y 12/10/i. 3 ?.e ere working closely with Company of Maetercraftemen, of the Ship Joiners and Outfitters, I t 7 Sloane, and al Celotex Corporation, who now have a Cem*to Board which Celotex between two sheets of asbestos borrt,jn the lnt tair.ing ruch a Fiberlas and _asb.estos_board, I believe i product can be ma^e.by.Calotex Corp. by placing our 9# .Fiberglas Board between_two sheets_of asbestos. I have a program planned with Ce1-*-- -on this ir. the East and* shortly after this report is recelvecrby* Toleoo, I will have production sample in your hands." FH,jr/FH Frederick Heath, Jr. Commercial Development