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FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1965 Nov 30 DOC OC286 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo RE Kaylo & Program - Replacement of Asbestos 7! . OWENS.CORNING FIBERGLAS corporation 0089.1 J w L C JENTION OF Mr COMPANY CORRESPONDENCE GRACN ENTEV R - I GRANL VILL LE OE HIO J. F. Vyverberg New York November 30 1900 [ PHON S R. F Shannon Granville SUBJECT KAYLOR KAYLOR & D PROGRAM - ; REPLACEMENT OF ASBESTOS cc; Mr P. J McEvoy Granville Mr. R. E. Davis Granville Mr. O. W Pfeifer Granville Central Files . . . . . . . . . In the Minutes of the I C & Review Granville Ohio Novabe L pare 5 item 20 I was asked to lay out a program including timing timing and resus to replace asbestos reinforcement in Karlo with cotton or some other appropriat^'material As you know we were directed by Mr. Ladd during the November 4 to limit cur efforts in 1967 to completing the stress corrosion meeting and to the carrying out of a feasibility feasibility study on cotton and potrnoegrra type of fiber for reinforcing Kaylo Comlation Target Target Target Target Target dates dates dates dates buir the feasibility study will be December 31. 1957 various phases of the program will be set after buir we review whatwhat what what fibers are commercially available and after in 1957 $ 25 000. glass glass glass glass technologist the problems we will encounter specially special y formulated and fiberized alkaline resistant The proposed fibe The The totaltotal total total Kayl~- Product Development proposed budget for . 41 239. The The cost of the feasibility study is estimated at remainder the remainder going to completion of stress corrosion Attached is a copy of the pert chart I prepared for the feasibility study As you will notc our efforts will be directed toward the evaluation of ection fibers alkaline resistant and surface coated glass fibers and various commer al fibers including rockworl fibrous minerals ceramic metal and organic fibers - To differentiate from the glass fiber reinforcement program carried out four or five years ago we plan with the assistance of Glass Research to develop an alkaline r^,sistantglass fiber which can be incorporated directly into Keyle batch Also another look will be taken at textile waste to make it suitable for use as reinforcement coating for Keyle Keyle ourourour initial initial screening of the various candidate fibers we will select select two or or three which show the greatest promise of surviving the proces Karic process and providing reinforcement in the finished product These will be evaluated in sufficient depth to obtain representativa physical and thermal properties costs and identification of probiers which could be caused by the switch over in the process of fiber used The data will be type assembled evaluated and a recommendation will be made based on the results obtained Bume 01 027 0907 ar 231 y Mr. J. F. Vyverberg -2- November 30 1966 If a fiber is found having a very high probability of success of replacing asbestos in Kaylo we will recommend to Marketing they support the & effort that will be required to scale the fiber up from the Laboratory feasibility study stage to full scale Plant usage in all Kaylo products RFS Attachment RFLhanon RFLhannon R. F. Shannon L 1 1 t [ 7 01 027 0908 232