B & B Engineering & Supply Company, Inc. plant at Houston, Texas

B & B Engineering & Supply Company, Inc., of Houston, Texas, made fitting insulation under license from Philip Carey, according to Philip Carey Corporation's own accounts of its Careytemp insulation, one of them dated December 1969, which list the Houston licensee as making "fitting elements, from 1959."¹ In another, Philip Carey wrote: "In 1959, we licensed B & B Engineering & Supply Company, Inc., Houston, Texas, to manufacture and use, transfer or sell 'Careytemp' insulation elements molded to fit valves, tube turns, tees, ells, unions, flanges and other fittings."² Philip Carey also said that Careytemp was distinguished by a formulation protected by patents, with "only one licensee."³

Philip Carey's descriptions of Careytemp in general, not of B & B's elements in particular, date it from 1958 and list its ingredients as "Expanded Perlite, Bentonite clay, chopped glass roving and asbestos fiber."^1,2 Panacon Corporation, as Philip Carey was later called, said the product contained "approximately 6% of asbestos fiber" until September 23, 1969.⁴ Philip Carey wrote that "since September of 1969, asbestos fiber has been eliminated from regular Careytemp and fiberglass has been substituted therefor."²

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.

• Packaging: Carey pipe covering cartons and chrysotile bag (Carey)Super-light (Philip Carey); Pipe insulation (Philip Carey); Careytemp (Philip Carey); Chrysotile asbestos fiber (Carey Canadian Mines)Label or package · ACL Doc 20723

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.

• Careytemp (Philip Carey) · from 1959¹

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 Celotex Asbestos Settlement Trust. Free case review.

Other names

Documents call this plant “B & B Engineering & Supply Company, Inc., Houston, Texas”, “Houston, Texas (B & B Engineering & Supply Co., licensee)”.

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in Texas

References

1. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiff's interrogatories (December 23, 1969), pp. 1, 16.
2. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories (April 2, 1970), pp. 1–2, 15.
3. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Supplemental answers to interrogatories (July 7, 1970), p. 9.
4. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiffs' joint interrogatories (September 21, 1970), p. 2.