Louisiana-Pacific Corp. / Mesa Insulation, A Johns Manville Company plant at Fruita, Colorado

The plant at 1110-16 Road in Fruita, Colorado, appears in the sources as the plant for one product, Super Caltemp pipe insulation, in the U.S. Navy's lists of qualified products: a 1978 listing gives "Plant: 1110-16 Road Fruita, CO 81521," without naming the maker in that entry.¹ A 2000 listing names "Pabco Super Caltemp Gold" from "Mesa Insulation, A Johns Manville Company," at Fruita.¹ Other Navy listings of the product name its maker as "Pabco Div., Fibreboard Corp." and as "Pabco Industrial Div., Louisiana-Pacific Corp."¹

Fibreboard's own statements describe Super Caltemp as "a block, pipe-covering, and cement thermal insulation," made "from 1968 to the present," and as "Hydrous Calcium Silicate with less than 15% Asbestos"; another Fibreboard statement says its asbestos material decreased "from about 12% to 3½%."^2,3,4 Fibreboard also said its Super Caltemp 1200NA was a high temperature heat insulation "which does not contain asbestos," and that its entire production converted to asbestos-free products on September 15, 1971.⁵ An insurance company's 1981 list, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives Super Caltemp as made from 1968 to 1971, with 5 percent asbestos.⁶ These figures and dates describe the product in general, not what was made at Fruita.^4,6 The Navy listings that place Super Caltemp at Fruita, from 1978 and 2000, are dated after the September 15, 1971 conversion that Fibreboard described, so these sources do not show an asbestos-containing Super Caltemp being made at Fruita.^1,5

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Location

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.

• Label: SUPER CALTEMP INSULATION (PABCO)Super Caltemp (Fibreboard)Label or package · ACL Doc 15067
• Label: Inhibited Pabco Super Caltemp Type NA insulation bag (Pabco)Super Caltemp (Fibreboard)Label or package · ACL Doc 20396
• Label: PABCO Super Caltemp Insulation, precision molded, corrosion inhibitedSuper Caltemp (Fibreboard)Label or package · ACL Doc 20499

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.

• Super Caltemp (Fibreboard) · from 2000¹

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.

Other names

Documents call this plant “1110-16 Road, Fruita, CO 81521”, “Fruita, CO”, “Fruita, Colorado”.

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in Colorado

References

1. Military Qualified Products List (1951–1995) (February 29, 2000), pp. 108, 133, 135, 148, 164.
2. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 7.
3. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories (April 3, 1970), p. 2.
4. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories (December 1, 1969), p. 2.
5. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Objections and answers to further interrogatories (December 8, 1971), p. 2.
6. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 8.