Travelers Asbestos Seminar Booklet (1980): Keene Corporation Product Information

Travelers' data sheet for Keene Corporation of New York, preceded by a six-page Johns-Manville internal memo of September 19, 1980, to J-M's asbestos litigation attorneys and staff summarizing Keene's interrogatory answers and a deposition; the memo postdates the March 1980 seminar and was added to the binder later. Both describe the seven insulation products made by Keene's subsidiary Keene Building Products and its predecessors Baldwin-Ehret-Hill, Baldwin-Hill and Ehret Magnesia at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Trenton, New Jersey, and Kalamazoo, Michigan (Thermalite 85% Magnesia, Thermasil, Mono-Block, Number One Plus and Super Powerhouse cements, Pyrospray and Mono-Spray), with fiber types and percentages that differ between the two. The data sheet gives Keene's first knowledge of hazards as service of the complaint and first labeling as 1969, while the memo reports Keene's answers that it learned of the hazard in 1969 and that Dr. Selikoff's 1965 work was its first notice that insulators were at risk, and comments critically on those answers.