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GRACE MEMO
personal & CONFIDENTIAL
06G1S853
to; T.J. Dawson
from:
W.J. Doyle
location: Ajax
CC J.B. Lahey
I PLAINTIFFS | EXHIBIT
| WRG-1702
do,e: September 1/82
subject:
L04 B/9 Concentrate Westroc Industries
Re: Norm Bushell's memo of July 29, 1982 which you referred to me for action.
Met August 31, 1982 with Or. Peter Leeming, Manager of Development.
History: Over 2 years ago when our concentrate became suspect of Asbestos containment, the parent company in the U.K. sent an immediate directive to try and eliminate as much vermiculite in their ULC board as possible.
Action: Immediately the research department commenced work with ULC here in Toronto on a board to pass the test to obtain approval of ULC. $25,000.00 later they have made a board which has passed verbally and will be receiving approval confirmation by October. The substitute was increasing their percenta of pure gypsum in their 5/8" firestop board. They failed 2-3 tests, but did pa
the last test.
This information is very confidential and will not be released to their sales department. It will most certainly not be divulged to their competitors. ULC will also keep it confidential.
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In our discussion, price also became an apparent reason,for looking for substitutes.
I would recommend that we look to a lower margin in our future budgets. Back i the days of 70-75 we were quite happy to obtain 25% G/M on this product.
Sales by area to Westroc are:
81 82
Ajax
$3576
3378
Winnipeg
-
9.0
Calgary
58.5
32.7
Vancouver
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19.0 s
Therefore, these should be dropped from *83 budget.
This should be kept confidential.
WJD:mh
Enc;
Doyle
15 169 78 8