Asbestos Ltd. and later owners plant at Millington, New Jersey

In 1975, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, gave the history of the asbestos-cement plant at Millington, New Jersey: "The original plant was built in the 1920's by Asbestos Ltd., was sold to Smith Asbestos Company in 1947 and taken over by National in 1953," meaning the National Gypsum Company.^2,6 The journal's lists of birthdays name the same plant manager under both later owners: "G. P. Reilly, Plant Manager, Smith Asbestos Products, Inc., Millington, N. J." in 1952, and under National Gypsum in 1954 and 1967.^3,4,5

In August 1975, Asbestos reported that National Gypsum "terminated production at its a/c plant at Millington, New Jersey, mainly due to lack of profitability," adding that "the sizeable capital investment that would be needed to alter plant conditions to comply with environmental requirements" was another factor.² The same item said that all raw materials for the plant's "siding shingles used in residential building" had been used up, and that the plant would stay open only to sell off the remaining inventory.² A National Gypsum advertisement in the journal that September offered the plant's equipment for sale, describing it as "Closed Permanently in June 1975," and listed "Flat Sheet and Shingle Tooling, etc. (Wet Process)."¹

Location

What each document says

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

Other names

Documents call this plant “Smith Asbestos Products, Inc., Millington, N. J.”, “National Gypsum Co., Millington, N. J.”, “National Gypsum Company, Millington, New Jersey”, “a/c plant at Millington, New Jersey”, “National Gypsum's Plant in Millington, New Jersey”.

See also

• Asbestos Ltd.: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• National Gypsum Company: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in New Jersey

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1975, September 1975 (September 1, 1975), p. 9.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1975, August 1975 (August 1, 1975), p. 12.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1954, July 1954 (July 1, 1954), p. 40.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1952, July 1952 (July 1, 1952), p. 44.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1967, July 1967 (July 1, 1967), p. 23.
6. Asbestos Magazine, 1976, January 1976 (January 1, 1976), p. 30.