The United States Gypsum Company made wall textures and joint compounds at Dallas, Texas, according to its own sworn answers in lawsuits; its 1986 answers list the texture products made at Dallas and give their first and last years of production.1 Those answers date Pac-Tex from 1943 to 1963, Textone from 1944 to 1975, Texolite from 1961 to 1967, and USG, Imperial QT and "SHEETROCK" Texture each from 1964 to 1976.1 For joint compounds made at Dallas, the company gave a first year of "1920's?" and a last year of 1976.1 Its 1988 answers in the Northern District of Oklahoma give the same products and years.2
The company's descriptions of its products, reported to the EPA and published in 1990, name Dallas for several of them, with years that do not always match its sworn answers.3 They list Imperial "QT" (Spray) Texture Finish in several versions, among them Regular, "produced 1964 to 1976," Extra Hard Fine, "produced 1964 to 1974," and Polystyrene, Coarse and Regular, "produced 1967 to 1976."3 They give Texolite Drywall Surfacer, Aggregated, as "produced 1961 to 1977," and Texolite Block Filler as "produced 1958 to an unknown date."3 Sheetrock Smoothcoat texture appears as "produced 1965 to 1974."3 Textone Texture Finish appears as made "1928 to 1977 at 7 plants," a span for all of those plants, not Dallas alone.3
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Pictures of products made here
Labels, packages, photographs and catalog pages from our library of products documents say were made at this plant. Each picture has its own page and library number.
Product photograph: Joint Compound (partially legible; the printed words appear to be '...COMPOUND' with a partly obscured word above it) (USG)Joint compound (U.S. Gypsum)Product photograph · ACL Doc 15160
Label: RED TOP Gypsum Cement Plaster (United States Gypsum Co.) and 1 other productRed Top (U.S. Gypsum); Imperial (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 15061
Label: Imperial 1/2" Plain Plaster Base (United States Gypsum Company)Imperial (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 20390
Label: Imperial Tape, 12 rolls, 300 lin. ft. per roll (United States Gypsum, Chicago, Illinois)Imperial (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 20394
Label: Imperial Catalyst (United States Gypsum Company)Imperial (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 20392
Asbestos products made here
The products documents say were made at this plant, with the years a document gives for the product here. Each product's page has what the documents say about it, including its asbestos content.
- Imperial (U.S. Gypsum) · 1964–19761,2,3
- Joint compound (U.S. Gypsum) · 1920–19761,2
- Pac-Tex (U.S. Gypsum) · 1943–19631,2
- Sheetrock (U.S. Gypsum) · 1964–19761,2,3
- Texolite (U.S. Gypsum) · 1958–19771,2,3
- Textone (U.S. Gypsum) · 1928–19771,2,3
- Usg (U.S. Gypsum) · 1964–19761,2
Asbestos claims
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What each document says
Every statement about this plant in the documents, in each document's own words.
United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (1986)
- Asbestos products made: “USG 1964–1976; Texolite 1961–1967; Pac-Tex 1943–1963; Imperial QT 1964–1976; "SHEETROCK" Texture 1964–1976; Textone 1944–1975; Joint Compounds 1920's?–1976” (United States Gypsum Company), p. 491
United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma
- Asbestos products made: “USG 1964–1976; Texolite 1961–1967; Pac-Tex 1943–1963; Imperial QT 1964–1976; "SHEETROCK" Texture 1964–1976; Textone 1944–1975; Joint Compounds 1920s?–1976” (United States Gypsum Company), p. 422
Other names
Documents call this plant “Dallas, TX”, “Dallas TX”.
See also
- United States Gypsum Company: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Asbestos exposure sites in Texas
References
- United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 49–51.
- United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 42–44.
- Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 19.
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