Johns-Manville plant at Cincinnati, Ohio

Johns-Manville's Cincinnati Factory began in a remodeled building, according to the Cincinnati and Dayton edition of The J-M Factory Circle, the company's employee magazine, writing in February 1930: "The first man was employed on November 18, 1925, to remodel the building and shingles were produced on January 13, 1926."¹ The magazine recalled that "the first trainload of asbestos shingles was shipped from the Cincinnati Factory in February, 1926, very soon after operation started."¹ It counted "the eighty employees at Cincinnati" and said they were "all Americans."¹ The same issue reported that J-M had acquired a 73-acre tract on which it planned to build, during 1930, the first unit of a plant with an asbestos shingle department and a rag-felt roofing department; the source describes this as a plan, and does not say it was built.¹

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What each document says

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

The J-M Circle, 1930, February 1930

• Opened: “The first man was employed on November 18, 1925 ... shingles were produced on January 13, 1926” (Johns-Manville), said by The J-M Factory Circle (Cincinnati and Dayton edition), as recorded by The J-M Circle, p. 13¹
• Asbestos products made: “first trainload of asbestos shingles was shipped from the Cincinnati Factory in February, 1926” (Johns-Manville), said by The J-M Factory Circle (Cincinnati and Dayton edition), as recorded by The J-M Circle, p. 13¹
• Workforce: “The eighty employees at Cincinnati” (Johns-Manville), said by The J-M Factory Circle (Cincinnati and Dayton edition), as recorded by The J-M Circle, p. 14¹
• Description: “planned: initial unit of a plant comprising an asbestos shingle department and a rag-felt roofing department” (Johns-Manville), said by The J-M Factory Circle (Cincinnati and Dayton edition), as recorded by The J-M Circle, p. 14¹

Other names

Documents call this plant “Cincinnati Factory”, “Johns-Manville new Cincinnati Factory”.

See also

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

References

1. The J-M Circle, 1930, February 1930 (February 1, 1930), pp. 13–14.