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:doug.pow...@aei.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 12:50 PM
To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
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)
doug.pow...@aei.com
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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