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Pabco Products, Inc. / Fibreboard Corp. plant at Emeryville, California

In December 1941, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported "the erection by Plant Rubber & Asbestos Works at Emeryville, California, of a $250,000 plant for the manufacture of 85% Magnesia Insulation."1 By May 1945 the journal called it the "Precision-Molded" 85% Magnesia plant at Emeryville, reporting that "Louis L. Collonge has been appointed Superintendent."2 From 1951 to 1972 the Navy's lists of qualified insulation products named Emeryville as the plant for Pabco insulations; by the 1972 listing the maker was given as Fibreboard Corp., Pabco Industrial Products Division.3

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What the plant made

The Navy lists give Emeryville as the plant for PABCO in December 1951, for CALTEMP in October 1959, for PRASCO in February 1960, and for "Pabco Super Caltemp Type 1200 NA," a form of SUPER CALTEMP, in August 1972.3 The sources below describe these products in general, not Emeryville's output in particular.4,5

CALTEMP was a calcium silicate insulation, advertised in 1957 as "Pabco Precision-Molded Caltemp."6 In a 1990 EPA notice that published what the company reported, Fibreboard said it was made "from about 1952 to 1968" of "about 88% calcium silicate and about 12% asbestos"; in its sworn answers in a 1969 lawsuit, it said "Caltemp was manufactured from 1950 to 1968" with "less than 15% Asbestos."4,5 Those answers say Super Caltemp followed it "from 1968," while the 1990 notice says Super Caltemp was made "from the late 1960's" until 1971, its asbestos "decreasing from about 12% to 3½%."4,5 In another statement, Fibreboard said its entire production was converted to asbestos-free products on September 15, 1971, and that "Super Caltemp Tyle 1200NA" did not contain asbestos; the Type 1200 NA the Navy listed at Emeryville in 1972 is that asbestos-free form.3,7

PRASCO, a block, pipe covering and cement insulation, contained "85% diatamaceous earth and 15% asbestos," according to Fibreboard's 1969 sworn answers, which date it "from 1940 to January 1957"; the 1990 notice says "from about 1928 to 1957."4,5 An insurance company's 1981 list, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives PABCO as a trade name made from 1928 to 1966, with a figure of 15 percent asbestos.8

Location

Emeryville, California, the city named in the documents. The dot marks the city, not the plant's address.

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Asbestos products made here

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Asbestos claims

If you or a family member worked at this plant, lived with someone who did, or worked with its products, and later developed mesothelioma or another asbestos disease, a claim may be paid by the Owens Corning/Fibreboard asbestos trust (Fibreboard subfund). Free case review.

What each document says

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

Asbestos Magazine, 1941, December 1941

  • Products made: “$250,000 plant for the manufacture of 85% Magnesia Insulation” (Plant Rubber & Asbestos Works), p. 101

Asbestos Magazine, 1945, May 1945

  • Operated: “"Precision-Molded" 85% Magnesia plant at Emeryville (superintendent appointed)” (Plant Rubber & Asbestos Works), p. 322

Other names

Documents call this plant “Emeryville, Calif.”, “Emeryville 8, Calif.”, “Emeryville, CA”, “Emeryville, California”.

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1941, December 1941 (December 1, 1941), p. 10.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1945, May 1945 (May 1, 1945), p. 32.
  3. Military Qualified Products List (1951–1995) (February 25, 1960), pp. 1, 60, 68, 108.
  4. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 7.
  5. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories (December 22, 1969), pp. 1–2.
  6. Asbestos Magazine, 1957, May 1957 (May 1, 1957), p. 63.
  7. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Objections and answers to further interrogatories (December 8, 1971), p. 2.
  8. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 7.

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