Travelers Asbestos Seminar Booklet (1980): Combustion Engineering Product Information

Travelers' data sheet for Combustion Engineering, with the company's Exhibit A table of the insulating block, cements, coatings, refractories and other products it made or distributed, giving fiber type and percentage. The sheet traces C-E's asbestos insulation business to subsidiaries' purchases of Refractory and Insulation Corporation (1963) and the insulation division of M.H. Detrick Company (1964) and to its 1969 purchase of Walsh Refractories, with plants at Port Kennedy, Pennsylvania, Aurora, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri, until 1972; it also distributed Kaylo and Johns-Manville products. C-E gave 1969 for both its first knowledge of hazards and its first labeling, denied sales to the Navy at Long Beach, and said freight-rate differences meant few of its asbestos products were sold west of the Mississippi.