Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc. plant at Antioch, California

Everything known here about Kaiser Gypsum Company's plant at Antioch, California, comes from one document: the company's amended sworn answers in Dallas County asbestos cases in 1992, which list the products made at each of its plants and the years.¹ The earliest Antioch dates in those answers are for four decorative texture paints, "Kasier-Tex" (as the answers spell it), "Cover-Tex," "Spray-Tex" and "Spray Cover-Tex": by Kaiser Gypsum's account, each was made at Redwood City until 1957 and at Antioch from 1957 to 1967.¹ "Finishing Compound-Powder" for gypsum wallboard was made at Antioch from 1957 to 1975.¹

The answers date more products to Antioch in the 1960s: "K-Spray Ceiling Texture" (1961-74), "Filler Compound" for electric radiant home heating systems (1961-70) and "Dual Purpose Premix Compound" for gypsum wallboard (1963-75).¹ From 1968 came "Cover-Tex Wall Texture" (1968-75), "One Day Joint Compound-Powder" (1968-74), "3-Purpose Compound-Powder" (1968-76) and "Premix Topping Compound" (1968-76).¹ The answers give single years for "Radiant Heat Joint Compound" (1972) and for two exterior products, "X-Terior Premix Prefill Compound" and "X-Terior Premix Wall Texture Compound" (both 1975).¹

Kaiser Gypsum said each of these products was "never sold in Texas," where the cases were brought.¹ Two that were, its wallboard "Joint Compound" and "Laminating Compound," it said were made at Antioch, without giving years.¹

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What each document says

Every statement about this plant in the documents, in each document's own words.

Kaiser Gypsum's Amended Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in Dallas County (1992)

• Products made: “"Finishing Compound-Powder": Antioch (1957-75)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 46¹
• Products made: “"Spray Cover-Tex": Antioch (1957-67)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 46¹
• Products made: “"Spray-Tex": Antioch (1957-67)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 46¹
• Products made: “"Kasier-Tex": Antioch (1957-67)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 46¹
• Products made: “"Cover-Tex": Antioch (1957-67)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 45¹
• Products made: “"Filler Compound": Antioch (1961-70)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 47¹
• Products made: “"K-Spray Ceiling Texture": Antioch (1961-74)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 46¹
• Products made: “"Dual Purpose Premix Compound": Antioch (1963-75)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 47¹
• Products made: “"One Day Joint Compound-Powder": Antioch (1968-74)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 46¹
• Products made: “"Cover-Tex Wall Texture": Antioch (1968-75)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 46¹
• Products made: “"3-Purpose Compound-Powder": Antioch, California (1968-76)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 46¹
• Products made: “"Premix Topping Compound": Antioch (1968-76)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 47¹
• Products made: “"Radiant Heat Joint Compound": Antioch, California (1972)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 47¹
• Products made: “"X-Terior Premix Wall Texture Compound": Antioch, California (1975)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 47¹
• Products made: “"X-Terior Premix Prefill Compound": Antioch, California (1975)” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 47¹
• Products made: “"Laminating Compound": Antioch, California” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 45¹
• Products made: “"Joint Compound": Antioch, California” (Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.), p. 45¹

See also

• Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc.: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in California

References

1. Kaiser Gypsum's Amended Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in Dallas County (July 27, 1992), pp. 45–47.