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OAR Box 1384 

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Document Number: 

126) ll-E-86 

Docket Number: 

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Date: 

Contact: 

Contact Report 

Greg LaFlam and Melanie Proctor, 

Pacific Environment Services, Inc. (PES) 

November 4,1996 and April 6,1998 

Mr. Robert DeGraff 

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Company: Werner Company, Franklin Park. 

Telephone Numben (847)455-9450 

Fax Number (847)455-9458 

Contact Summary: 

Resin is stored at the Werner Co., Chicago Division facility in two large aboveground 

storage tanks, located indoors in an air-conditioned space. To mix a batch, a 55- or 85-gallon 

drum is placed on a scale, and predetermined weights of resin and filler axe added to the vessel. 

A lid is placed on the drum until it is ready for mixing. The drum is men moved to tbe mixer, tha 

lid is removed, and the impeller is lowered into the drum. A dome attached to the mixer lowers 

down at the same time and forms a cover during the mixing process. Mixing takes place ia two 

timed cycles (lfJifl * mimHaa is typieal). Mr. DeGraff said the company pertormed a number of 

modifications to the factory mixer, which included adding the cover and installing additional 

explosion-proof electrical components. He also stated that the Franklin Park facility was the 

model for Illinois' RACT provisions applicable to polyester resin operations. 

Mr. DeGraff said that Werner controls the air velocity past the wet areas ofthe puhrusion 

machine down to approximately 25 feet per minute, but these low velocities are hard to measure 

accurately. The entire pultrusion depanment is air conditioned and kept at approximately 72 *F 

year-around to TMit*i-*ntw> styrene evaporation and to stabilize the process. They also use a low 

monomer technology (30 percent by weight as received in tbe neat resin, and less than 25 percent 

as applied in the resin matrix). 

(Contact repon continued on second page) 

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cw The facility presently is practicing injecttonat 4 of their 10 pultrusion 

machines. (Limited die eyailability from an outside supplier u piuwatiag e fifth mnaliinn frnm 

being n a this nray.) They have found that the fiber bundle must be "pre-wetted" by injecting 

resin into the middle ofthe bundle before it enten the die. Tbia pro wettiug, piirinaac BrmaTinlly 

na emisaioaaraarfme exhaust point nonnally used ax tbe wetout area is not used during the prewetting process. Mr. DeGraff said that the company does not know its baseline emissions (the 

emissions without the current pollution pievention measures in place), because they have never 

run pultrusion on a totally uncontrolled basis. Tne facility has used low monomer resin from the 

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Clarification based on April 6,1998 contact report with Melanie Proctor (PES) 

Ms. Proctor explained that the purpose of this phone call was to detennine if the facility's^ 

mixers are actively vented. Mr. DeGraff explained that no active ventilation ofthe mixing 

vessels occurs during the mixing process. 

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FACSIMILE (TELEFAX) NUMBER: 1 (847) 458-9488 

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Attached ia a summary of our phona conversation concerning 

your company'a operations, since this information may ba placed 

in the public document for ehe a.S. EPA'a rulemaking for plaatic 

composites production, wa wiah to anaura that l t is accurate. 

Please review tha attached report and mark aay specific 

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