Johns-Manville Corporation plant at Chillicothe, Ohio

In June 1959, J-M News Pictorial, Johns-Manville's employee magazine, announced that construction of "our 34th plant, fourth for tile flooring," would begin about July 1st at Chillicothe, Ohio, and that the plant would increase J-M's flooring output 33% and "will employ 125 in '60."² A Johns-Manville announcement printed in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, in July 1959 described "a new highly-mechanized, multi-million dollar plant" there "for the manufacture of J-M vinyl plastic and asphalt floor tiles," planned to be completed in the summer of 1960.³

In November 1960, Asbestos printed the company's report that Johns-Manville Corporation "opened a multi-million dollar asphalt and vinyl asbestos floor tile plant at Chillicothe, Ohio, on October 11, 1960," its fourth devoted only to resilient floorings.¹ The company said the plant would make "both asphalt asbestos floor tile and vinyl asbestos floor tile in a wide range of colors."¹ In December 1960, J-M News Pictorial placed the new plant "five miles north of Chillicothe" and said it "will employ about 130 people in full operation."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 “New J-M Floor Tile Plant at Chillicothe, Ohio”, “floor tile plant at Chillicothe, Ohio”.

See also

• Johns-Manville Corporation: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in Ohio

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1960, November 1960 (November 1, 1960), p. 20.
2. J-M News Pictorial, 1959, June 1959 (June 1, 1959), p. 2.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1959, July 1959 (July 1, 1959), p. 62.
4. J-M News Pictorial, 1960, December 1960 (December 1, 1960), p. 8.