Talk:Union Carbide

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[edit] Redraft

I'm currently working on a new draft. I did a substantial amount of research on Union Carbide back in college, and still have access to most of my referenced material. 66.177.23.49 01:10, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Could someone please put a lack of neutrality tag on this article? I'm not sure how to do it. But the article is dire. Union Carbide also made agent orange! SuzanneKn 22:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Union Carbide didn't make Agent Orange. With a few well known exceptions such as polyvinyl chloride, Carbide wasn't into chlorine chemistry. WVhybrid (talk) 03:16, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article Comments

Something's broken with the discussion page here. --X 0 02:48, 8 May 2006 (UTC)


There are almost no cites in this article. Need internal cites for all of article - especially for claims like "was $120 million more than plaintiffs’ lawyers had told U.S. Courts was fair." Where is this from??? Iammaggieryan 02:59, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I am attempting to edit in cites to refute the biased nature of the article. There are, of course, many theories out there. This article seems to be written by a corporate drone - why the paragraph detailing company respose? Iammaggieryan 03:52, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, the entire section on the disaster needs to be removed from the article. It already has its own article, and it can be better covered there. It's just one event that happened to the company, not the defining event of the company, as it seems to be here. I vote to remove it, though give it maybe a paragraph of mention. — Frecklefoot | Talk 16:51, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
I agree with Frecklefoot. The article seems to be focussed on this one thing which already has it's own article. I vote to remove it as well. The article should be more about what the company did/does, less about Bhopal. --Copperman 10:09, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

I think this article should link to the bhopal disaster, at least. DO you fellas work for union carbide? "Just one event"? The greatest industrial disaster in history should be simply glossed over as "just one event"?

I agree, Bhopal disaster is one of the worst industrial disasters in world history. It is (and should be) considered a defining event. There are other examples where pages on parent companies have discussion about a particular event, e.g http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisso_Corporation Salil.gokhale 16:19, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] incomplete

this article seems horribly incomplete for a company that once was a very major player in the plastic/chemical industry. perhaps mention major companies that it supplied and worked with, talk of its aquisition by DOW, even it's minor in the movie "Network."--Gidge 21:42, 11 May 2006 (UTC)


I want to know what happened in India with Union Carbide.

[edit] Biased? If nothing else incomplete.

I appreciate the well known disaster this company is associated with but this articel (about the company), with the exception of the 1st 2 sentences and a very scanty and disconnected "history" section, focuses on nothing else. There HAS to have been more to the company if they were around to build the Carbide & Carbon Building. 68.39.174.238 21:42, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I would like to know more about Union Carbide - the company it bought - Bakelite and the health problems of their workers/former workers as a result of exposure to these chemicals —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.61.222.98 (talk) 13:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Biased? This article is horrible

Did the lawyers for Union Carbide write this article? It is like a hagiography of the company. This should link to the wikipedia page on the Bhopal disaster. This article is clearly and completely POV.

lol this is pretty bad.

[edit] Copyright problems

Much of this article is directly cribbed from http://www.unioncarbide.com/history/index.htm --72.70.10.85 11:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV and COPYPASTE

This article is atrocious. I've taken the liberty of adding an NPOV template to the article as a whole and COPYPASE to the history section. I'll try, if I have time to come back and work a bit on the intro at least. Kinema (talk) 04:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

World headquarters located in Danbury CT. Also produced Ortho chemicals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.22.218.225 (talk) 15:58, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Paragraph about office space

This was added a few days ago in an edit by an anon IP:

In 1960, Union Carbide consolidated its diverse New York City office spaces that had been located in and around 30 East 42nd Street in midtown Manhattan, to a new skyscraper structure at 270 Park Avenue on the site of the former Hotel Marguerie. In March of that year, various divisions and departments of the company began to move, as true pioneers, into the brand new building. Thus began a shakedown period, as employees began to adjust to working in the new space. One immediate structural problem was the 'stone' terrazzo surface on the plaza surrounding the building. When dry, it presented a delightful contrast to the steel and glass building above it. But when it rained, the surface became as slick as the most slippery ice-skating rink that had ever existed anywhere, and many slip and fall pedestrian accidents were recorded. The problem was solved by grinding the surface to a rough finish, a project which took several weeks. The next problem involved the sheer and clear glass doors that gave entry into the lower ground floor of the building from the plaza. They were virtually invisible to the naked eye, and a few broken or bruised noses resulted until the powers that be ordered that eye-level strips be placed on each door. The last major problem weas far less injury-threatening, but it marked just about every new occupant of the building as a Carbide employee as they walked around midtown at lunch or were heading home in the evening. On the ladies, it was a heavy coating of fine green fibers that statically clung to their shoes, ankles and calves. On the men, it was the same for their shoes, trouser cuffs and lower pants legs. The cause: the relatively brittle green-dyed fibers that broke off by foot-treading from the vast acreage of brand-new Dynel-based carpeting that covered most of the interior floors in the new building. It had been woven especially and for the first time into commercial carpeting by the Alexander Smith Carpet Company and had evidently not been fully scuff- and static-tested before installation. The problem was ultimately solved by spraying every square foot of carpeting with an anti-static silicone solution, a handy and very practical application for one of the company's own silicone products.

It's an uncited minor incident, not vital to the history of the company, and it sort of overwhelmed the rest of the article so I'm putting it here until somebody can figure out whether it should be re-integrated somehow. Dreamyshade (talk) 22:17, 11 April 2008 (UTC)