Kaiser Refractories (excerpt) (1960s)

Six pages excerpted from a spiral-bound Kaiser Refractories product handbook, probably from the 1960s. They cover blast-furnace gun castable, Furnacast and Lo-Erode castables, Coelex direct-bonded basic brick, and tar-bonded and tar-impregnated brick for basic oxygen furnaces, along with M-Block mineral-wool block insulation, Vee-Block vermiculite block insulation, Vee-Block Mix castable, Hard-Top finishing cement, and a mineral-fiber plastic insulation for pipes, valves, boilers and furnaces (PDF pp. 5-6). The pages never use the word asbestos.

A Kaiser product identification list from the Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation asbestos trust papers (2007) names most of these insulation products as asbestos-containing products that Kaiser Refractories re-branded and sold: M-Block insulation (1959-1972), Vee-Block insulation (1959-1974), Vee-Block Mix castable insulating cement (1959-1974), Hard Top finishing cement (1959-1972) and plastic insulation cement (1959-1972). Among refractories Kaiser made itself, it names Coelex 60 Unitab brick (no years given) and the K-N plastics (1974-1977). Separately, in Moran v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (Cal. App. 2016) the court describes a Kaiser salesman who from 1968 to 1980 sold 'Kaiser's asbestos-containing Vee-Block insulation'.