United States Gypsum Company plant at Loveland, Colorado

United States Gypsum Company made basecoat plasters at Loveland, Colorado, according to the company's sworn answers to interrogatories in two lawsuits, in 1986 and 1988, which list Loveland as the manufacturing location for three of its plasters.^1,2 The earliest is Cement Plaster Regular, a basecoat both answers say was made at Loveland from 1943 to 1947; they add that its name was changed to Gypsum Plaster in 7/67 and to Red Top Gypsum Plaster in 11/68 (see Red Top).^1,2

Red Top Wood Fiber Plaster - Regular, another basecoat, follows: the 1986 answers list it at Loveland from 1945 to 1966, and the 1988 answers give the same years for a basecoat whose name is cut off on the page.^1,2 The third is Red Top Structo-Lite Gypsum Plaster for Machine Application, which both answers place at Loveland from 1955 to 1962 (see Structo-Lite).^1,2

In other entries, the same answers give a later last year, 1972, for both Wood Fiber Plaster - Regular and Structo-Lite for machine application; the rows do not say where those later years were made.¹ An insurance company's list, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, dates Structo-Lite from 1955 to 1970.³ U.S. Gypsum's answers give Red Top's asbestos content as "9.7% by volume"; that figure describes the product line in general, not what Loveland made.^1,2

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.

• Label: RED TOP FIRECODE PLASTER (UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY)Red Top (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 15060
• Label: red top Patching Plaster (United States Gypsum Company)Red Top (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 15087
• Label: RED TOP Gypsum Cement Plaster (United States Gypsum Co.) and 1 other productRed Top (U.S. Gypsum); Imperial (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 15061

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.

• Red Top (U.S. Gypsum) · 1943–1966^1,2
• Structo-lite (U.S. Gypsum) · 1955–1962^1,2

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 United States Gypsum Asbestos PI Settlement Trust. Free case review.

What each document says

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

See also

• United States Gypsum Company: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in Colorado

References

1. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 47–48, 54.
2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 40–41, 46.
3. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 8.