Travelers Asbestos Seminar Booklet (1980): Amatex Product Information

The data sheet for Amatex of Norristown, Pennsylvania, from the booklet The Travelers Insurance Company compiled for its March 1980 asbestos seminar, mostly from defendants' interrogatory answers in the Long Beach Naval Shipyard suits. It lists the asbestos textiles Amatex made (roving, yarn, cloth and carded fiber since 1950; cord, tubing, wick and rope since 1962; lap, thread and tape undated), said to contain 75–95% chrysotile, at plants in Norristown and in Meredith, New Hampshire (from 1962), with fiber from Bell, Cassiar, Lake Asbestos, Asbestos Corporation, Johns-Manville and Rhodesian mines. The sheet records that Amatex bought the assets of Keasbey & Mattison and Pacor, gave June 7, 1972, when the OSHA regulations were issued, as the date of both its first knowledge of hazards and its first labeling, and did not deny sales to Long Beach Naval Shipyard.