Keasbey & Mattison (Brake Lining Department) / Ferodo and Asbestos, Inc. plant at New Brunswick, New Jersey

In February 1971, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, looking back on Keasbey & Mattison's history, wrote that "Soon after Turner & Newall took over K&M, the Brake Lining Department was moved to a new building in New Brunswick, New Jersey."¹ The plant, it said, "operated under the name of Ferodo and Asbestos, Inc., with Walter Dodge as President," and the business "operated at New Brunswick for just a few years and then was moved to Montreal, Quebec, to become a part of Atlas Asbestos Company, another subsidiary of T&N."¹ The item gives no dates for the move to New Brunswick or for its end.¹

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What each document says

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

Asbestos Magazine, 1971, February 1971

• Operated: “Soon after Turner & Newall took over K&M, the Brake Lining Department was moved to a new building in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The plant operated under the name of Ferodo and Asbestos, Inc. ... for just a few years and then was moved to Montreal” (Ferodo and Asbestos, Inc.), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 10¹

See also

• Keasbey & Mattison (Brake Lining Department): the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Ferodo and Asbestos, Inc.: the company's documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in New Jersey

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1971, February 1971 (February 1, 1971), p. 10.