Everite Limited / Everite (Pty) Limited plant at Brackenfell, Cape Province

Brackenfell, in the Cape Province of South Africa, was the site of an asbestos-cement factory run by Everite.⁴ A 1971 profile in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, says that in 1945 a construction engineer "was involved with establishing Everite's second factory at Brackenfell."² In 1961 the same journal named Brackenfell, Cape, among Everite Limited's "existing factories," alongside Kliprivier in the Transvaal.³

Pipe was the line the journal followed there: in 1964 it reported Everite "constructing factory at Brackenfell to house another pressure pipe plant."¹ In 1966 Asbestos reported twice that Everite was "erecting a new factory at Brackenfell, South Africa, for the production of six-metre asbestos-cement pipes," and that "the present four-metre pipe machine" was to be moved there from another Everite pipe factory; these items describe the factory as being built, and the rows do not say when it opened.^5,6

In April 1972, Asbestos reported new managers at "the Asbestos-Cement Factory at Brackenfell": F. B. Tucker as Manager of Pipe Production and E. A. Furrer as Manager of Sheet Production.⁴

Location

What each document says

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

Other names

Documents call this plant “Brackenfell, Cape”, “new factory at Brackenfell”, “Everite's second factory at Brackenfell”, “Asbestos-Cement Factory at Brackenfell, Cape Province”.

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1964, December 1964 (December 1, 1964), p. 5.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1971, May 1971 (May 1, 1971), p. 26.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1961, June 1961 (June 1, 1961), p. 54.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1972, April 1972 (April 1, 1972), p. 50.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1966, May 1966 (May 1, 1966), p. 24.
6. Asbestos Magazine, 1966, December 1966 (December 1, 1966), p. 7.