Doug
here's something I had on file
"Compliance & Regulatory Committee Members:
>From Peter Clark of Watkins Johnson
On the RCF subject, we have gotten tons of technical information
from the RCF Coalition. Members wanting additional information on RCF
should pick up a copy of "Refractory Ceramic Fibers: A Substitute
Study". It is obviously published by that industry and is somewhat
selfserving, but it has a lot of good information.
The Ceramics Fibers Coalition is located at 1133 Connecticut Avenue,
NW, Suite 1200, Washington DC 20036.
"
also I've had some luck surfing the web on this issue with the search engine
www.hotbot.com. I couldn't find any bookmarks for the stuff, so maybe I
never found good info, just teasers.
Regards
Lauren Crane
> -----Original Message-----
> From: POWELL, DOUG [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 12:50 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Refractory Ceramic Fibers (RCF)
>
> Dear group,
>
> Recently one of our customers sent the email at the bottom of the page
> about
> RCF. To be perfectly honest I am not familiar with what types of
> materials
> or products might contain RCF. My understanding is that RCF are used for
> very high temperature insulation, much higher than regular fiberglass is
> able to support. Intuitively I believe that these fibers might be found
> in
> applications that use paper-like insulation, braided tubing, possibly
> transistor gap-pads or sil-pads.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1) Can anyone tell me what this requirement is in Europe, i.e.
> directives,
> standards, etc.?
>
> 2) Is there anyone out there that is able to point me in a direction
> where
> I can get a quick education on RCF and how to identify them in our
> products?
>
>
> Thank you so much,
>
> -doug
>
> =======================================
> Douglas E. Powell, Compliance Engineer
> Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
> Fort Collins, Colorado USA
>
> 970-407-6410 (phone)
> 970-407-5410 (fax)
> [email protected]
> www.advanced-energy.com
> =======================================
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> We have been alerted by our Health and Safety Dept of the possible
> presence
> of "Refractory Ceramics Fibers" (RCF) within thermal insulation parts in
> equipment. RCF are part of "Man Made Vitreous Fibers" (MMVF) and have been
> classified '2' (As carcinogenic for Human) by the European Community and
> adopted recently (end 1998) by France.
>
> As a consequence we must consider them as a carcinogenic material and get
> proper identification. So, could you please, provide us with the
> exhaustive
> list of all suspected parts and tools designation containing or made of
> 'RCF', since this material was introduce (in the early 70's) as a
> substitute
> of asbestos.
>
> The list must be accompanied of the relevant MSDS, we would appreciate in
> the same time to get the description of the physical state of the fiber
> (bulk, braided, compound...) And the name of the origin supplier.
>
>
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