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• A. W. Chesterton CompanyA. W. Chesterton Company of Stoneham, Massachusetts, made mechanical packings, gasket sheet and seals, chiefl…
• Abex CorporationAbex Corporation, earlier the American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company and then the American Brake Shoe Compan…
• Academic Medical CenterAn academic medical center (AMC) is a hospital integrated with a medical school and research institution, whe…
• ACandSACandS, founded in 1958 as Armstrong Contracting and Supply Corporation, the insulation contracting subsidiar…
• AJCCAJCC stands for the American Joint Committee on Cancer, the organization that publishes the staging system us…
• Amatex CorporationAmatex Corporation, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, made asbestos textiles, including cloth, tape and lagging, w…
• American BiltriteAmerican Biltrite, known in earlier documents as American Biltrite Rubber Company, made vinyl asbestos floor …
• American Cyanamid CompanyAmerican Cyanamid was a large American chemical company. In the library's records it appears as a holder of p…
• American OpticalAmerican Optical, of Southbridge, Massachusetts, made industrial safety equipment through its Safety Products…
• AmocoAmoco was the oil and chemical business of Standard Oil Company (Indiana), with refineries, oil fields and ch…
• AmosaAmosa was a major asbestos mining town in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, historically associated with …
• Armco Steel CorporationArmco Steel Corporation was a large steelmaker based in Middletown, Ohio. Its asbestos story in our library i…
• Armstrong Cork CompanyArmstrong Cork Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, made cork, flooring and insulation. Its asbestos products …
• Army and Navy Munitions BoardThe Army and Navy Munitions Board (ANMB) was a joint U.S. military planning body that coordinated industrial …
• Army Chemical Warfare ServiceThe Army Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) was a branch of the U.S. Army, active from 1918 to 1946, responsible …
• Asbestos Corporation LimitedAsbestos Corporation Limited was a Canadian chrysotile mining and milling company that operated major asbesto…
• Asbestos InvestmentsAsbestos investments refers to the financial holdings, corporate acquisitions, and capital expenditures that …
• Asbestos Textile CompanyThe Asbestos Textile Company was an asbestos textile and brake lining maker organized in 1915 with offices in…
• Asbestos Workers UnionThe Asbestos Workers Union is the common name for the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators …
• Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO)Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) was a major American oil company. In our library its asbestos story is main…
• Atlas Asbestos Company (Coalinga, California)Atlas Asbestos Company mined and milled short-fiber chrysotile asbestos at its Santa Cruz mine northwest of C…
• Atlas TurnerAtlas Turner Inc. of Montreal, formerly Atlas Asbestos Company Ltd., was a Canadian maker of asbestos-cement …
• Atomic Energy CommissionThe Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was a U.S. federal agency that controlled the nation's nuclear weapons pro…
• ATSDRThe Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry is a federal public health agency under the U.S. Departm…
• Australian Blue Asbestos Pty LtdAustralian Blue Asbestos Pty Ltd (ABA) was the subsidiary of CSR Limited that operated the crocidolite (blue …
• Azrock Floor ProductsAzrock Floor Products of San Antonio, Texas, later Azrock Industries, made floor tile, including Azrock vinyl…
• B. F. GoodrichThe B. F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, was a rubber and chemical maker whose asbestos story in our librar…
• Baldwin-Hill CompanyBaldwin-Hill Company was a Trenton, New Jersey, maker of mineral wool insulation and insulating cements, incl…
• Bell Asbestos Mines Ltd.Bell Asbestos Mines Ltd. was a Canadian chrysotile asbestos mining company that operated in Thetford Mines, Q…
• Bendix CorporationBendix Corporation was a major American manufacturer of automotive and aviation parts, best known in the asbe…
• Benjamin Foster CompanyBenjamin Foster Company was a Philadelphia maker of mastics, coatings, sealants and adhesives used to finish …
• Bird & SonBird & Son, Inc. was a Massachusetts-based building products manufacturer that produced asbestos-containing m…
• Brigham and Women's HospitalBrigham and Women's Hospital (often called "the Brigham" or BWH) is a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medi…
• Canadian Johns-ManvilleCanadian Johns-Manville was the Canadian arm of the Johns-Manville Corporation, one of the world's largest as…
• Cape AsbestosCape Asbestos (the Cape Asbestos Company, later Cape plc and Cape Industries) was a British asbestos mining, …
• Cape Blue Mines (Pty) Ltd.Cape Blue Mines (Pty) Ltd. was a South African subsidiary within the Cape Asbestos group that mined crocidoli…
• Carey Canada Inc.Carey Canada Inc. was a Quebec-based chrysotile asbestos mining company that operated the East Broughton mine…
• Carey-Canadian MinesCarey-Canadian Mines was the Quebec asbestos-mining subsidiary of the Philip Carey Manufacturing Company, inc…
• Cement Asbestos Products CompanyCement Asbestos Products Company (Capco) of Birmingham, Alabama, made asbestos-cement water and sewer pipe in…
• CertainTeedCertainTeed Corporation is an American building products manufacturer that, during much of the 20th century, …
• Chrysler CorporationChrysler Corporation was one of the large American automakers. Our library's documents show it making asbesto…
• Chrysotile InstituteThe Chrysotile Institute was a Canadian industry-funded organization that promoted the continued mining, expo…
• Collegium RamazziniThe Collegium Ramazzini is an international scientific society of physicians and researchers focused on occup…
• Colonial Sugar Refining CompanyThe Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR Limited) is a major Australian industrial company, historically know…
• Combined Raw Materials BoardThe Combined Raw Materials Board (CRMB) was a wartime allocation agency established in 1942 by the United Sta…
• Combustion EngineeringCombustion Engineering, Inc. was a Delaware company, incorporated in 1912 with a home in Windsor, Connecticut…
• Crown Cork & Seal CompanyCrown Cork & Seal, a maker of metal bottle caps, enters the asbestos record through Mundet Cork Corporation, …
• CSR LimitedCSR Limited is an Australian building-products company, originally the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, that …
• Dana CorporationDana Corporation was an Ohio-based maker of vehicle parts whose Victor division made gaskets and seals, and a…
• Drilling Specialties CompanyDrilling Specialties Company, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was a Phillips Petroleum subsidiary that sold Flosal…
• Durabla Manufacturing CompanyDurabla Manufacturing Company was a Pennsylvania maker of compressed asbestos sheet gasket material and packi…
• Dzhetygara CombineThe Dzhetygara Combine (also spelled Zhetygara or Jetygara) is a large chrysotile asbestos mining and milling…
• Eagle-PicherEagle-Picher was a Cincinnati company with an insulation plant in Joplin, Missouri, that made mineral wool in…
• Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing CompanyEhret Magnesia Manufacturing Company of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania made 85% magnesia pipe and boiler insulati…
• Emergency Procurement ServiceThe Emergency Procurement Service was a wartime U.S. government agency responsible for acquiring strategic ra…
• EPAThe EPA, or Environmental Protection Agency, is the U.S. federal agency responsible for protecting human heal…
• EternitEternit is a brand name for asbestos-cement building products (including roofing sheets, siding panels, pipes…
• Fibreboard CorporationFibreboard Corporation, earlier Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation, was a San Francisco company whose Pabc…
• Finska Mineral AbFinska Mineral Ab was a Finnish mining company that operated the Paakkila and other anthophyllite asbestos mi…
• Flexitallic Gasket CompanyFlexitallic Gasket Company of Camden, New Jersey, made spiral-wound metal gaskets for pipe flanges and other …
• FlintkoteThe Flintkote Company was an American roofing and building-products maker that made or sold asbestos roof coa…
• Ford Motor CompanyFord Motor Company, the Detroit automaker, appears in our library as a buyer and user of asbestos: Johns-Manv…
• Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc.Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc., of Aurora, Illinois, made asbestos-containing insulating cements and block for…
• GAF CorporationGAF Corporation, earlier General Aniline & Film Corporation, was a chemical and photographic company that too…
• GarlockGarlock, founded as the Garlock Packing Company of Palmyra, New York, made mechanical packings, gaskets and g…
• GefcoGefco refers to General Engineering & Foundry Company, an industrial supplier whose name appears in asbestos …
• GencorGencor (General Mining Union Corporation) was a major South African mining conglomerate that owned and operat…
• General Electric CompanyThe General Electric Company, the American electrical manufacturer, used asbestos in wire and cable insulatio…
• Georgia-PacificGeorgia-Pacific, a forest products company, entered the asbestos business when it took over the Bestwall Gyps…
• Gibson-HomansGibson-Homans was an Ohio-based maker of roof coatings, roof cements and foundation coatings, sold under name…
• Grant Wilson, Inc.Grant Wilson, Inc. was a Chicago insulation firm founded in 1930 by Grant V. Wilson, who had been a vice pres…
• H. H. Robertson CompanyThe H. H. Robertson Company of Pittsburgh made Asbestos Protected Metal, steel roofing and siding sheets coat…
• H. K. Porter CompanyH. K. Porter Company, Inc. was a diversified Pittsburgh manufacturer that became a maker of asbestos textiles…
• Haveg CorporationHaveg Corporation, later Haveg Industries, was a Delaware company that molded acid-resistant chemical-plant e…
• Havelock Asbestos MinesThe Havelock Asbestos Mines were a large chrysotile asbestos mining and milling operation in the Bulembu area…
• Hedman Mines LimitedHedman Mines Limited was a small Canadian company that mined short-fiber chrysotile asbestos from an open pit…
• Hollingsworth & VoseHollingsworth & Vose (H&V) is a Massachusetts-based paper and specialty fiber manufacturer founded in 1843. F…
• Holmes Insulations LimitedHolmes Insulations Limited was a Canadian insulation maker based in Sarnia, Ontario, formed when Holmes Blunt…
• Huxley Development CorporationHuxley Development Corporation is a corporate entity that has appeared as a named defendant or successor part…
• IARCIARC is the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization, headquartered in Lyon, France. It is best k…
• IASLCIASLC stands for the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, a global nonprofit organization …
• IMIGIMIG stands for the International Mesothelioma Interest Group, a global professional organization of physicia…
• Industrial Minerals CorporationIndustrial Minerals Corporation, commonly known as IMV or Mineral Pigment Industries, was a U.S. minerals com…
• Insul-Coustic CorporationInsul-Coustic made coatings, mastics, adhesives and other accessories for thermal insulation, first at Maspet…
• International Mesothelioma ProgramThe International Mesothelioma Program (IMP) is a comprehensive clinical and research program based at Brigha…
• International Mineralogical Association (IMA)The International Mineralogical Association is the global scientific body that officially names, defines, and…
• J. P. Stevens & Co.J. P. Stevens & Co. was a large American textile maker. In an account an insurer compiled in 1980, it said it…
• John Crane Inc.John Crane Inc. is a manufacturer of industrial sealing products, including mechanical seals, gaskets, and pa…
• Johns-ManvilleJohns-Manville was once the largest manufacturer and supplier of asbestos-containing products in the United S…
• Kaiser Gypsum CompanyKaiser Gypsum Company was a maker of gypsum wallboard products that, by its own account, made asbestos-contai…
• Keasbey & Mattison CompanyKeasbey & Mattison Company of Ambler, Pennsylvania, dated its start to 1873 and made 85% magnesia pipe coveri…
• Keene CorporationKeene Corporation was a company based in New York that bought the insulation maker Baldwin-Ehret-Hill in 1968…
• Kentile FloorsKentile Floors, Inc., of Brooklyn, New York, was one of the largest American makers of asphalt and vinyl asbe…
• Kiembay CombineThe Kiembay Combine (also spelled Kiembai or Kiyembay) is a large chrysotile asbestos mining and milling comp…
• Koppers CompanyKoppers Company, Inc., of Pittsburgh, made coal-tar products, chemicals and plastics. In asbestos history it …
• Lewis H. BrownLewis H. Brown (1894–1951) ran Johns-Manville for more than twenty years, as president from 1929 and as chair…
• LonrhoLonrho (London and Rhodesian Mining and Land Company) was a British multinational conglomerate that, through …
• Lorillard Tobacco CompanyLorillard Tobacco Company was a major American cigarette manufacturer best known in the asbestos context for …
• MagcobarMagcobar was the drilling-mud division of Dresser Industries, based in Houston. Union Carbide's papers show t…
• Maremont CorporationMaremont Corporation, through its Grizzly Brake Division, made asbestos brake linings, sold mainly as replace…
• Mastic TileMastic tile refers to floor tiles, most commonly asphalt-asbestos tile and later vinyl-asbestos tile, that we…
• MD Anderson Cancer CenterThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Can…
• Memorial Sloan KetteringMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is a New York City-based cancer hospital and research institutio…
• Merchant MarineThe Merchant Marine is the fleet of commercial ships that carry cargo and passengers, and the civilian marine…
• Metals Reserve CompanyThe Metals Reserve Company was a U.S. government-owned corporation created during World War II to procure, st…
• Mineral Resources Health Assessment ProgramThe Mineral Resources Health Assessment Program refers to government-led public health screening and surveill…
• Mobil Chemical CompanyMobil Chemical Company was the chemical business of the Mobil oil company. Our documents name it as the selle…
• MonsantoMonsanto, a St. Louis chemical company known until the 1960s as Monsanto Chemical Company, sold Resinox pheno…
• MontelloMontello, Inc., of Tulsa and Sand Springs, Oklahoma, sold asbestos additives for oil well drilling mud, chief…
• Montgomery Ward & Co.Montgomery Ward & Co. was a Chicago mail-order and retail company. Documents in the library show it selling a…
• Msauli AsbestosMsauli Asbestos refers to the chrysotile (white asbestos) mine and milling operation at Msauli in the Barbert…
• MSHAMSHA stands for the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the federal agency that regulates worker safety in…
• National Gypsum CompanyNational Gypsum Company of Buffalo, New York, sold wallboard, plaster and other building materials under the …
• Newport News ShipbuildingNewport News Shipbuilding is a major American shipyard located in Newport News, Virginia, that has built wars…
• Nicolet IndustriesNicolet Industries was an asbestos company that by 1956 brought together the Norristown Magnesia & Asbestos C…
• NIOSHThe National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the federal research agency that studies…
• NL IndustriesNL Industries, formerly the National Lead Company, sold Dutch Boy paint sundries, including Synko and Synkolo…
• North American Asbestos CorporationNorth American Asbestos Corporation was the Chicago sales company of the Cape Asbestos group of London, forme…
• OSHAOSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is the federal agency that sets and enforces workpla…
• Owens-Corning FiberglasOwens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation was a major American manufacturer of insulation and building products tha…
• Owens-IllinoisOwens-Illinois (O-I) is an American glass manufacturer that, from the 1940s until the end of 1958, also made …
• Pacific Asbestos CorporationPacific Asbestos Corporation mined and milled chrysotile asbestos near Copperopolis, in Calaveras County, Cal…
• Paco TexturesPaco Textures was a California maker of drywall joint compounds and wall and ceiling textures that Kelly-Moor…
• Passaic County Medical SocietyThe Passaic County Medical Society is a county-level professional association of physicians in Passaic County…
• Philip Carey Manufacturing CompanyThe Philip Carey Manufacturing Company of Lockland, outside Cincinnati, Ohio, made asbestos roofing, 85% magn…
• Pittsburgh CorningPittsburgh Corning Corporation was a joint venture between PPG Industries and Corning Glass Works that manufa…
• Powhatan Mining CompanyPowhatan Mining Company was a U.S. mining and minerals firm historically associated with the extraction and s…
• PPG IndustriesPPG Industries, earlier the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, is a Pittsburgh glass, paint and chemical company…
• Pratap Commercial Co.Pratap Commercial Co. is an Indian trading firm identified in international shipping and trade records as an …
• Quebec Asbestos Mining AssociationThe Quebec Asbestos Mining Association (QAMA) was a trade group representing the chrysotile asbestos mining c…
• Quigley CompanyQuigley Company was a New York maker of refractory products for steel mills, power plants and refineries, bes…
• R.T. Vanderbilt CompanyR.T. Vanderbilt Company (now Vanderbilt Minerals, LLC) is a Connecticut-based industrial minerals firm that m…
• Raybestos-ManhattanRaybestos-Manhattan was a major American manufacturer of asbestos-containing friction products, especially br…
• Ryder IndustriesRyder Industries, Inc. was a Dallas, Texas maker of insulating and finishing cements sold under names such as…
• Sall Mountain CompanyThe Sall Mountain Company was a Chicago asbestos manufacturer, organized in 1899, that made asbestos paper, m…
• Saranac LaboratoryThe Saranac Laboratory was a research facility in Saranac Lake, New York, that conducted some of the earliest…
• Sears, Roebuck and Co.Sears, Roebuck and Co. of Chicago was a mail-order and retail company. In our library it appears as a seller,…
• SEERSEER is a U.S. National Cancer Institute program that collects and publishes cancer incidence, treatment, and…
• Sepco CorporationSepco Corporation, of Pelham, Alabama, made and sold gaskets and packing for industrial equipment, and for a …
• Société Nationale de l'AmianteThe Société Nationale de l'Amiante (SNA) was a Quebec provincial Crown corporation created in 1978 to acquire…
• Southern Asbestos CompanySouthern Asbestos Company of Charlotte, North Carolina, made asbestos textiles: cloth, yarn, tape, tubing and…
• Standard Asbestos Manufacturing & Insulating CompanyStandard Asbestos Manufacturing & Insulating Company was a Kansas City, Missouri, insulation maker whose prod…
• Standard Oil Company of CaliforniaStandard Oil Company of California, the San Francisco oil company that sold under the Chevron name, bought as…
• Texas Refinery Corp.Texas Refinery Corp. was a Fort Worth, Texas, maker of roof coatings that bought asbestos fiber for its aspha…
• The Celotex CorporationThe Celotex Corporation, a Chicago company in the 1930s, made insulating board from sugar-cane fiber and Ceme…
• The Marley Tile Company LimitedThe Marley Tile Company Limited, of Sevenoaks, Kent, England, launched Marleydek, a vinyl roofing sheet with …
• The Ruberoid CompanyThe Ruberoid Company was a roofing and building-materials maker that also mined asbestos, running the Belvide…
• Thermo Electric Co., Inc.Thermo Electric Co., Inc., of Saddle River Township, New Jersey, made thermocouple wire, extension wire and c…
• Tiny RowlandRoland Walter "Tiny" Rowland (1917–1998) was a British businessman and longtime chief executive of Lonrho Plc…
• Transvaal Consolidated Land & Exploration (TCL)TCL refers to Transvaal Consolidated Land and Exploration Company, a South African mining group that operated…
• Turner & NewallTurner & Newall (T&N) was a major British asbestos manufacturing company that became one of the largest asbes…
• Turner Brothers Asbestos CompanyTurner Brothers Asbestos Company of Rochdale, England, began with packings in the 1870s and became a leading …
• Turners Asbestos Cement Co.Turners Asbestos Cement Co. (TAC) was the asbestos-cement company of the British asbestos group Turner & Newa…
• U.S. Bureau of MinesThe U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was a federal scientific agency that studied mining, mineral processing, and …
• U.S. Maritime CommissionThe U.S. Maritime Commission was a federal agency created in 1936 to rebuild the American merchant marine and…
• U.S. SteelU.S. Steel, long the country's largest steelmaker, appears in our library mainly as a place where asbestos wa…
• UICCUICC stands for the Union for International Cancer Control, a Geneva-based nongovernmental organization found…
• UnarcoUnarco (Union Asbestos and Rubber Company) was a U.S. manufacturer that produced asbestos insulation, textile…
• Union CarbideUnion Carbide Corporation was a large American chemical company that mined and sold chrysotile asbestos from …
• United States Asbestos CompanyThe United States Asbestos Company was an asbestos textile maker founded in 1906 at Manheim, Pennsylvania, wh…
• United States Gypsum CompanyUnited States Gypsum, the Chicago maker of Sheetrock and Red Top plaster, used asbestos in joint compounds, a…
• United States Rubber CompanyThe United States Rubber Company, renamed Uniroyal in 1967, was a large maker of tires and rubber goods whose…
• UralasbestUralasbest (the Uralasbest Combine) is a Russian industrial complex in the town of Asbest, in the Ural Mounta…
• Vandiver BrownVandiver Brown was the chief in-house attorney for Johns-Manville Corporation from the 1930s until 1952, a pe…
• Vimasco CorporationVimasco Corporation of Nitro, West Virginia made mastics, coatings, sealers and adhesives used over industria…
• W.R. GraceW.R. Grace & Co. is a specialty chemicals and materials company that, from 1963 to 1990, owned and operated a…
• War Production BoardThe War Production Board (WPB) was a U.S. federal agency created in 1942 to direct industrial output during W…
• Westinghouse Electric CorporationWestinghouse Electric Corporation of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the country's largest makers o…
• Wheeler Protective Apparel, Inc.Wheeler Protective Apparel, Inc., of Chicago made safety clothing, including gloves, mittens, aprons, legging…
• Whittaker, Clark & DanielsWhittaker, Clark & Daniels was a New York mineral and pigment supplier, later based in New Jersey, that for f…