In May 1966, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that L. Dean Lanier was moving from Minneapolis "to assume the management of Ruberoid's two plants at Erie, Pennsylvania."2 Later, GAF Corporation, in its sworn answers in 1981 asbestos cases from the Key Highway, Fairfield and Sparrows Point shipyards, said that "Asbestos paper and millboard have been manufactured to the present at Erie, Pennsylvania."1 The sources here do not say how the Erie plants passed from Ruberoid to GAF, or which of the two made asbestos paper and millboard.1,2
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GAF's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in the Key Highway, Fairfield and Sparrows Point Shipyards Asbestos Cases (1981)
- Products made: “Asbestos paper and millboard, manufactured to the present at Erie” (GAF Corporation), p. 61
Asbestos Magazine, 1966, May 1966
- Operated: “Ruberoid's two plants at Erie, Pennsylvania” (The Ruberoid Co.), said by The Ruberoid Co., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 252
See also
- GAF Corporation: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Asbestos exposure sites in Pennsylvania
References
- GAF's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in the Key Highway, Fairfield and Sparrows Point Shipyards Asbestos Cases (July 22, 1981), p. 6.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1966, May 1966 (May 1, 1966), p. 25.
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