Johns-Manville plant at Green Cove Springs, Florida

Johns-Manville built its Green Cove Springs plant in Florida to make asbestos-cement pipe: Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported in December 1965 that J-M was constructing a pipe plant at Green Cove Springs.⁵ J-M's employee magazine, the J-M News Pictorial, later wrote that ground breaking "was held in October, 1964," on a site next to the old Naval base property, and a 1967 company report in the same magazine said construction "was begun in 1964."^1,4 At the ceremonies, the magazine recorded, a company speaker said "the plant would be needing about 100 people to help get production started."¹

The magazine's accounts of the start differ slightly: in June 1966 it said construction "was completed in 1965, and pipe production began early this year."² In December 1966 it said the plant "began test runs on the Transite pipe machines in the middle of December 1965, and swung into full production in January of 1966."¹ In its sworn answers in a 1990 lawsuit, the fund that answered for Manville Corporation dated the plant "1965 to 1982."³

In June 1966, "with a complement of nearly 100 employees," the plant was making "water, sewer, and irrigation TRANSITE pipe in sizes up to 18 inches"; Epoxy-lined Transite pipe production began in May, and PVC pipe was scheduled.² By December the magazine reported that "plastic pipe was added to the Green Cove Springs line in June, followed shortly by Epoxy-lined Transite and finally, Temp-Tite insulated asbestos-cement pipe."¹ The Manville fund's 1990 answers list "Transite Pipe" among the plant's products, and name John M. Malone, M.D., as the plant's doctor from 1965 to 1982.³

Location

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.

• Transite Pipe (Johns-Manville)³

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 Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust. Free case review.

What each document says

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

Other names

Documents call this plant “Green Cove Springs Plant”, “Green Cove Springs, FL Plant”, “Green Cove Springs, Florida”.

See also

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

References

1. J-M News Pictorial, 1966, December 1966 (December 1, 1966), pp. 3–4.
2. J-M News Pictorial, 1966, June 1966 (June 1, 1966), p. 15.
3. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), pp. 18, 21, 53.
4. J-M News Pictorial, 1967, February–March 1967 (February 1, 1967), p. 12.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1965, December 1965 (December 1, 1965), p. 5.