Ryder Industries, Inc

Ryder Industries, Inc. was a Dallas, Texas maker of insulating and finishing cements sold under names such as Thermokote. The insulation contractor ACandS said Ryder made cements that were relabeled for it and contained asbestos until about 1972. The library has no record of a bankruptcy, a trust or a successor.

Draft. The history on this page was written from the documents in our library and has not yet been reviewed by a person.

Products

The library holds a photograph of a Ryder bag of Thermokote high-temperature pointing and finishing cement, giving the company's home as Dallas.¹ A product list that the Travelers Insurance Company prepared for a 1980 asbestos seminar names Ryder Industries with two trade names: Thermokote, listed as a cement, and Thermacote, listed as an adhesive.⁴ That list is the insurer's description, not the company's. Union Carbide's insulation specifications of 1973 and 1980 list Ryder Industries, Inc. among the acceptable makers of insulating cement, next to a cement named Thermokote.^2,6 The specifications do not say whether those cements contained asbestos.

What the documents show

In 1984 answers to interrogatories in Bellows v. Fibreboard, ACandS listed Ryder Industries among the manufacturers from which it had obtained asbestos-containing products.⁵ ACandS also named Ryder as one maker of two mineral wool cements it sold under its own names, Armatemp Cement No. 10 and Armatemp Cement No. 166.³ ACandS gave the period when Ryder's versions contained asbestos as running from the mid-1960s to about 1972; the last digit of the starting year is cut off in the scan.³

Ryder Industries was a defendant in two cases in our case-law library. In Nolan v. Johns-Manville Asbestos (Illinois Supreme Court, 1981), it was one of the makers of asbestos products sued by an insulator.⁷ In Case v. Fibreboard Corp. (Oklahoma Supreme Court, 1987), it was one of twenty-two product makers sued by a sheet metal worker who could not name the products he had worked around.⁸

References

1. Package: Thermokote pointing and finishing cement bag (Ryder Industries, Inc.)
2. Union Carbide trial exhibit UC-3721, Material Specification for Perlite Insulation (1980), p. 2
3. ACandS's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in Bellows v. Fibreboard (1984), p. 15
4. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981), pp. 26, 34
5. ACandS's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in Bellows v. Fibreboard (1984), p. 10
6. Union Carbide trial exhibit UC-4024, Process and Equipment Operating Safety Training Manual (1973 specification page), p. 477
7. Nolan v. Johns-Manville Asbestos (Ill. 1981)
8. Case v. Fibreboard Corp. (Okla. 1987)

Asbestos products

1 product our documents name Ryder Industries, Inc as making or selling. Each product's page says what the documents say about it, including its asbestos content.

• Thermacote (Ryder Industries)

Court cases

2 court decisions in our case-law library name Ryder Industries, Inc as a defendant, newest first.

• Case v. Fibreboard Corp. (1987)
• Nolan v. Johns-Manville Asbestos (1981)

In our library

1 document in our library name Ryder Industries, Inc, by collection.

Other library documents (1)

• Package: Thermokote pointing and finishing cement bag (Ryder Industries, Inc.) (publisher)

In the Union Carbide documents

Ryder Industries, Inc is named in 2 Union Carbide documents dated 1980 to 1981 (2 mentioned), from asbestos lawsuits over Union Carbide's Calidria asbestos. All are published in our collection.

• Union Carbide Chemicals/Plastics Insulation Standard, Material Specification 4M:4M-B / 4A:4A-B / 4SS:4SS-B for Perlite Insulation (1980) UC-3721 (mentioned)
• D. T. Watters to I. P. Blackwood et al. on Potential Health Risks of Insulation Materials (Perlite Insulation Specification 4) (1981) UC-3253 (mentioned)

Names in the documents

The spellings documents use for Ryder Industries, Inc, OCR misreadings included, so a search for any of them finds this page: Ryder Industries.

Where this comes from

This page brings together every document in our library that names Ryder Industries, Inc, across collections. Titles and affiliations are taken from the documents themselves, and units and subsidiaries are grouped under the company they belong to.