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The Flintkote Company plant at New Orleans, Louisiana

The Flintkote Company's plant at New Orleans, Louisiana is known here from one source: the company's sworn answers in 1985 lawsuits in the Eastern District of Texas, whose "key to manufacturing locations" marks New Orleans "NO" beside Chicago Heights, Illinois, East Rutherford, New Jersey and Vernon, California, and gives the years each of its asbestos-containing coatings, cements and mastics was made at each plant.1 For nearly every product, the answers give New Orleans and East Rutherford the same years, ending in 1978, while the Chicago Heights and Vernon plants went on to 1981 or 1982.1

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Roof coatings and cements

The earliest product the answers date at New Orleans is a roof coating: C-13-C4, a "brush or spray grade asphalt emulsion roof coating," from 1940 to 1978.1 Fibrex Cement, an "asphalt cutback adhesive for cementing roofing base sheets," and Plastic Cement 810-21, a "heavy trowel asphalt cutback for roof flashings and repairs," were made there from the early 1940s to 1978.1 Weld-On (printed "Weldon Cement East only"), a "high strength asphalt cutback adhesive for roof membranes," is listed for the 1940s to 1978.1 Fiber Roof Coating followed in 1945 and Rexalt roof coating in 1950, both made until 1978.1 Nu-Static, "a spray grade of C-13-C4 asphalt emulsion roof coating," dates from 1954, and Static Levelkote, an "asphalt emulsion for low slope roofs," from 1958, both to 1978.1 Three more were added in 1969 and made until 1978: Aluminum Roof Coating 810-19, Rexglas, a "glass fibered asphalt emulsion roof coating," and Rain Patch.1

Insulation coatings and waterproofing

New Orleans also made coatings for insulation from the late 1940s to 1978: C-13-A, a "trowel grade emulsion weather protection for insulation," and Thermalkote, a "heavy trowel grade asphalt emulsion-weatherproof coating."1 The answers date #229 Anti-Sweat Compound, a "cork filled asphalt cutback--for condensation control," from 1947 at New Orleans with no end year, writing "1947-?" and "Discontinued."1 Product #245, a "trowel grade asphalt cutback for underbody coating and waterproofing," was made there from the 1950s to 1974, and C-19, an "asphalt cutback insulation protective coating," from 1954 to 1975.1 Trowel Mastic, a "trowel grade asphalt cutback waterproofing compound," dates from 1961 to 1978.1 The answers single out FR-200, a fire retardant asphalt cutback, as "made experimentally at New Orleans but then bought for resale," from 1966 to 1970.1

Other products

GF-8 Tile Cement, a "floor tile cement," was made at New Orleans from the early 1940s to 1978, and Filler Coat, a "sand filled levelling and smoothing compound for pavements," from 1964 to 1978.1 The plant also made railroad car cements, "about 20 grades" of metal protective coatings "used by railroad car builders or repair shops," which the answers say "were made from the late 1940's and discontinued prior to 1968 at ER, NO and CH, depending on shipping destination."1 All-Weather Mastic is listed for New Orleans from 1956 to 1978.1

What the products contained

The same answers give each product's asbestos content in general, not New Orleans output in particular: 30% for #245, 22-25% for Trowel Mastic, 20-25% for C-19, 16-19% for Plastic Cement 810-21, 14-19% for Thermalkote, approximately 15% for FR-200, 12-15% for Rexalt, 12% for C-13-A and #229, 10-13% for Aluminum Roof Coating 810-19, and 10% for Fibrex Cement and GF-8 Tile Cement.1 Lower figures are given for Fiber Roof Coating (6-9%), Filler Coat and Nu-Static (6%), Weld-On (5%), C-13-C4 (3%), and Rexglas and Static Levelkote (2.5%).1

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana, the city named in the documents. The dot marks the city, not the plant's address.

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Asbestos products made here

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Asbestos claims

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What each document says

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

Flintkote's Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories and Requests for Admission in the Eastern District of Texas

  • Asbestos products made: “All-Weather Mastic 1956–1978; Aluminum Roof Coating (810-19) 1969–1978; R.R. Car Cements (railroad car cements, about 20 grades) 1940s–by 1968; C-13-A (100-14) 1940s–1978; C-13-C4 (800-13) 1940–1978; C-19 (110-14) 1954–1975; Fiber Roof Coating (FTC) 1945–1978; Fibrex Cement 1940s–1978; Filler Coat (900-20) 1964–1978; FR-200 (110-26) (made experimentally, then bought for resale) (1966 to 1970); GF-8 Tile Cement 1940s–1978; Nu-Static 1954–1978; #229 Anti-Sweat CPD. 1947–?; #245 1950s–1974; Plastic Cement (810-21) 1940s–1978; Rain Patch (810-25) 1969–1978; Rexalt Roof Coating 1950–1978; Rexglas Coating 1969–1978; Static Levelkote 1958–1978; Thermalkote (100-15) 1940s–1978; Trowel Mastic 1961–1978; Weldon Cement East only 1940s–1978” (The Flintkote Company), p. 281

Other names

Documents call this plant “NEW ORLEANS, LA”, “NO”, “New Orleans”.

See also

References

  1. Flintkote's Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories and Requests for Admission in the Eastern District of Texas (October 10, 1985), pp. 28–33.

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