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telex, NoV. TK2222 to TK222S ANSWERBACK. CODEV MITUBISI TK CABLE" ADDRESS'FOR' THIS' BUSINESS.' MITSUBISHI CORPORATION (MITSUBISHI SHOJI- KAISHA, LTD.) 8-3. MARUNOUCHI 2-CHOME, CHIYOOA-KU. TOKYO. JAPAN V- ' . . MAIL ADDRESS! C. Pi O. BOX' 22. TOKYO 100-91 JAPAN PHpNESi TOKYO (210) 2121* . CABLE ADDRESS FOR GENERAL USE: MITSUBISHICORP TOKYO YOUR REF. NL-P110 IN REPLY I NO, OUR REF. PLEASE QUOTE tokyo February 28, 1972 Mr. H . _ S. Bergen Director Specialty Prbdfcfbt (Jrotrp 'Monsanto Industrial Chemical Co. Dear Mr. Bergen, We have received a letter dated January .31 from Monsanto Japan Ltd. stating that you have decided to stop manufacturing of the current Pydraul fluids and to replace them with new series containing no chlorinated components.,, effective* June- 3y 1972-. Although it is not certain at present stage whether such new series could be accepted front the standpoints of price, quality and compatibility with current fluids (Pydraul^ 3.12,,_ 3.20.,- 312=A. and mixtures thereof1)', we assure you tftat we will do;, opr:' b,,e.s.t-1a. cooperate with you i'n yOur" decided policy and endeavour to make our customers convert smoothly to'*the newly formulated Pydraul, working together with Matsumura Oil and Mitsubishi Oil. Meantime, PCB has, as you know, been seriously criticized in public as one of environmental pollution sources and accordingly the Ministry of International Trade and Industiy has recently announced that the use of PC.B for open systems must be banned and PCB in stock at customers* must be returned to the manufacturers. Under these circumstances, Japan Casting,&. Forging Co, who is^ using Pydraul 312,.. has. strongly claimed1 that-Monsanto; as* p'rodac'erf and sales promoter, should remove such harmful PCB^-containing fluids from the systems and dispose of safely as soon as. possible-.at your; . expenses'and also offer some' discount for the price of new Pydraul formulation^when it will be adopted- in future. . Besides JCFC, there are many customers in Japan who are still using PCB. containing fluids mixing with 312-A grades in their hydraulic systems. Some of them asked us to analyze PCB volume in the leak fluids which, are afraid to be carried downstream and also PCB gas volume in the air surrounding the system in operation with Pydraul. We fear that they might also request us, as was done by JCFC, to. take back Pydraul 312, 320 and mixtures thereof with 312-A now being used and to compensate the customers for the fluids- removed, which must be incinerated safely at your expenses and we further MITSUBISHI CORPORATION * B-3b PAGE fear that some portion of otir present inventory might remain . unsoldV - The fact being as explained above, we would like to ask you to support us by meeting following requests, I* You will accept to bear the entire charges necessary'to' withdraw and' incinerate old. fluids- when we are forced- to do/ so. 2. You will accept; to take back our inventory which may remain unsold in future. 3. You will instruct Mitsubishi Monsanto Chemical Co. to cooperate with us on the incineration of the old grade Pydraul at their incineration facility which is a ..only plant available in Japan for that purpose. . 4. You will instruct' MMKH'tf work" with' us- on- the analysis' of PGB* content in air or vater.at customers* sites. We would greatly appreciate that you will understand our hard situation- and* accept the., above, mentioned- requests-so. that- you, may main,tain., your reputation, firmly e^s.tafeli.ohbd- i& the, Japanese market. Looking forward to your earliest reply, we remain u. Very truly yours > MITSUBISHI CORPORATION (MITSUBISHI SHOJI KAISIIA, LTD.) 21 /- GenciaT.MaMa^cr7,I:J.ubr,ic'*fits-S-.,Specialties.Dfpt.. > YM/kk CC: Mr. T. L. Gossage, Director of Sales - MICC Dr. J. R. Durland - MMK Mr. T. Ishijima, Market Manager - MJL PCB-ARCH-EXT0376318