Ruberoid / GAF Corporation plant at Hyde Park, Vermont

In sworn answers in the 1981 Key Highway, Fairfield and Sparrows Point shipyard asbestos cases, GAF Corporation said its 115 and 214 Insulation Cements, "manufactured from 1936 through September, 1975," were made at Hyde Park, Vermont.¹ GAF described them as "off-white to light-gray colored cements, composed entirely of chrysotile asbestos fiber and used for insulating and finishing boilers, tanks, fittings, etc.," and said their manufacture "was discontinued because they were not profitable."¹

Later accounts from the company were less sweeping about where the cements came from: in its 1989 submission to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, filed for itself and The Ruberoid Co., GAF Building Materials Corporation said that 115 "in some instances, was produced at Ruberoid/GAF's Vermont facility and in other instances was purchased from various other asbestos suppliers and resold," and said the same of 214.³ A 1990 EPA notice that published what the company reported repeats that each was "in some instances" produced at the Vermont facility.²

The company's descriptions of the two cements apply to the products in general, not only to what Hyde Park made: GAF said the "115" designation "was employed from approximately 1950 to 1975," with "Grade B" used before 1950, and the "214" designation "from approximately 1950 to 1975," with "Grade BB" before 1950.³ It called 214 "a lower grade cement," and said of 115 that "the Vermont product was a slip chrysotile asbestos rather than a cross vein asbestos."^2,3 A Ruberoid product label in our library names it "VERMONT ASBESTOS GRADE 115."⁴

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: Vermont Asbestos Grade 115 (Ruberoid)115 (GAF)Label or package · ACL Doc 15082

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.

• 115 (GAF)^2,3
• 214 Insulation Cement (GAF)^2,3

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 G-I Holdings (GAF) asbestos trust. Free case review.

What each document says

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

GAF's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in the Key Highway, Fairfield and Sparrows Point Shipyards Asbestos Cases (1981)

• Products made: “115 and 214 Insulation Cements, manufactured from 1936 through September, 1975” (GAF Corporation), p. 5¹

Other names

Documents call this plant “Hyde Park, Vermont”, “GAF's Vermont facility”, “Ruberoid/GAF's Vermont facility”.

See also

• Ruberoid: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• GAF Corporation: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in Vermont

References

1. GAF's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in the Key Highway, Fairfield and Sparrows Point Shipyards Asbestos Cases (July 22, 1981), p. 5.
2. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), pp. 8–9.
3. GAF Asbestos Information Act Submission (October 6, 1989), pp. 30–31.
4. Label: Vermont Asbestos Grade 115 (Ruberoid), p. 1.