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Don International S.A. (Cape Asbestos / Small and Parkes and Johns-Manville joint venture) plant at Manage, Hainaut

Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported in December 1967 that Don International S.A. "officially opened its factory at Manage (Hainaut), near Brussels, Belgium, on November 6th, 1967."1 The journal called the project "a joint venture by The Cape Asbestos Company Limited and the Johns-Manville Corporation of New York."1 It was built for "automotive and industrial friction materials (brake linings, clutch facings and disc brake pads)," and the journal said the factory "will be employing 100 workers by early 1968."1 Johns-Manville's employee magazine, J-M News Pictorial, placed the plant at "Seneffe/Manage, Belgium, about 15 miles from Mons," said production "was scheduled to begin in September," and wrote that it "will eventually employ about 500 Belgians."2

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Location

Manage, Hainaut, the city named in the documents. The dot marks the city, not the plant's address.

What each document says

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

Asbestos Magazine, 1967, December 1967

  • Products made: “brake linings, clutch facings and disc brake pads” (Don International S.A.), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 191
  • Owned or run by: “a joint venture by The Cape Asbestos Company Limited and the Johns-Manville Corporation of New York” (Don International S.A.), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 191
  • Opened: “officially opened its factory at Manage (Hainaut), near Brussels, Belgium, on November 6th, 1967” (Don International S.A.), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 191
  • Workforce: “will be employing 100 workers by early 1968” (Don International S.A.), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 191

J-M News Pictorial, 1967, December 1967

  • Workforce: “The plant will eventually employ about 500 Belgians” (Don International), said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by J-M News Pictorial, p. 112

Other names

Documents call this plant “factory at Manage (Hainaut), near Brussels, Belgium”, “new plant at Seneffe/Manage, Belgium”.

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1967, December 1967 (December 1, 1967), p. 19.
  2. J-M News Pictorial, 1967, December 1967 (December 1, 1967), p. 11.

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“Don International S.A. (Cape Asbestos / Small and Parkes and Johns-Manville joint venture) plant at Manage, Hainaut.” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/plants/manage-belgium-don-international.

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