CertainTeed Corporation plant at Hillsboro, Texas

The Keasbey & Mattison Company began building the Hillsboro plant, in Hillsboro, Texas, to make asbestos-cement pipe: Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that ground breaking ceremonies "marking the start of construction of a new, modern, multi-million dollar Keasbey & Mattison Company asbestos-cement pipe manufacturing plant were held March 25, 1960, on the 50-acre plant site at Hillsboro, Texas."³ In May 1961, a Keasbey & Mattison item in the same journal said construction of the "$5,000,000 asbestos-cement pipe manufacturing plant at Hillsboro" was "proceeding on schedule," and that James V. Gear, "former Manager of the pipe plant at Ambler, has been transferred to Hillsboro and appointed Plant Manager."²

Later the plant appears under CertainTeed Corporation: in its sworn answers in a 2000 lawsuit, CertainTeed listed "Hillsboro, TX (1961-1987), PO Box 403, U.S. Highway 77N" among its asbestos-cement pipe plants.¹ The same answers say CertainTeed began manufacturing asbestos-cement pipe on June 1, 1962, and that after that date dust samples "were taken periodically at CertainTeed's asbestos-cement pipe plants" by state or federal agencies or by the loss control departments of its workers' compensation insurers, "and subsequent to 1973 by defendant's employees."¹ The answers do not say how CertainTeed came to own Hillsboro.¹

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.

• Asbestos-Cement Pipe (CertainTeed)¹

What each document says

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

See also

• CertainTeed Corporation: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in Texas

References

1. CertainTeed's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Havenor v. W.D. Industries (May 25, 2000), pp. 21, 35.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1961, May 1961 (May 1, 1961), p. 54.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1960, April 1960 (April 1, 1960), p. 36.