Johns-Manville plant at Long Beach, California

Johns-Manville's Long Beach plant stood at 2420 East 223 Street in Long Beach, California: in its sworn answers in a 1990 lawsuit, the fund that answered lawsuits for Manville Corporation dated the plant "(1938 to 1982)."¹ The same answers list what the plant made: Metal On, Thermobestos Block, Thermobestos Insulating Cement, Thermobestos Pipe Covering and Transite Pipe.¹ The Navy's list of qualified products also names Long Beach as the plant for J-M's Thermobestos, in its 1961 and 1972 editions.²

Manville's own descriptions say what some of these products were, in general rather than at Long Beach in particular: Metal-On was "THERMOBESTOS pipe insulation with a factory applied jacket of aluminum," and a 1990 EPA notice that published what Manville reported gave Thermobestos "asbestos fibers, 5 to 10%."^3,4

The 1990 answers also name the doctors who served the Long Beach plant, beginning with Doctor R. W. Stellar of Wilmington, "1938 to 1946 (Partial)," and ending with entries that run "to 1985."¹

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: THERMOBESTOS PIPE INSULATION (Johns-Manville)Thermobestos pipe coveringLabel or package · ACL Doc 15072
• Label: Metal-On stenciled shipping strip, "For Tanks" (Johns-Manville Corporation)Metal-on (Johns-Manville)Label or package · ACL Doc 20445

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.

• Metal-on (Johns-Manville)¹
• Thermobestos^1,2
• Thermobestos block¹
• Thermobestos pipe covering¹
• Transite Pipe (Johns-Manville)¹

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 “Long Beach Plant”, “Long Beach, California”, “Long Beach, CA Plant”, “Long Beach”, “Long Beach, CA”.

See also

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

References

1. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), pp. 19, 21, 54.
2. Military Qualified Products List (1951–1995) (August 1, 1972), pp. 69, 108.
3. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 73.
4. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 14.
5. H. M. Jackson, "X-Ray Study, Dr. L. J. Bristol, Trudeau Institute" (December 11, 1970), p. 2.