Johns-Manville plant at Laurinburg, North Carolina

In December 1964, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that Johns-Manville had "exercised option to purchase manufacturing site in Scotland County, North Carolina, for construction of asbestos friction materials plant."⁴ Looking back in 1967, a Johns-Manville article in J-M News Pictorial, the company's employee magazine, said construction "was begun in 1964 on ... a new asbestos friction materials plant at Laurinburg, N. C."³ In 1990, the fund that answered lawsuits for Manville Corporation dated the Laurinburg plant "1965 to 1980s" in its sworn answers.²

In April 1966, the employee magazine reported J-M President C. B. Burnett's announcement of "the addition of new equipment at the Company's Laurinburg, N. C., plant for production of brake linings for the automotive industry."¹ The fund's 1990 answers list "Railroad Brake Shoes" and "Rubber Rings" among the Laurinburg plant's products.²

The same answers name 6 doctors who served the plant, beginning with Doctor G. E. Forbes, "4/65 to 1979," and running to Doctor Frank J. Ball, Jr., in "at least 1988."²

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.

• Railroad Brake Shoes (Johns-Manville)²
• Rubber Rings (Johns-Manville)²

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 “Laurinburg Plant”, “Laurinburg, NC Plant”, “Laurinburg, North Carolina”.

See also

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

References

1. J-M News Pictorial, 1966, April 1966 (April 1, 1966), p. 10.
2. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), pp. 18, 21, 53.
3. J-M News Pictorial, 1967, February–March 1967 (February 1, 1967), p. 12.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1964, December 1964 (December 1, 1964), p. 5.