In October 1947, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that "The New Orleans, Louisiana, manufacturing plant acquired by Keasbey & Mattison Company last year is now producing 'Century' asbestos-cement building products to serve the southern and midwestern markets."1 In December 1947 the journal, calling it a new plant, wrote that "K. & M. started production of asbestos-cement products in its new plant at New Orleans."2 Neither item names the company Keasbey & Mattison acquired the plant from.1
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Asbestos Magazine, 1947, October 1947
Asbestos Magazine, 1947, December 1947
- Opened: “K. & M. started production of asbestos-cement products in its new plant at New Orleans [1947]” (Keasbey & Mattison Company), p. 62
Other names
Documents call this plant “K. & M. New Orleans Plant”, “The New Orleans, Louisiana, manufacturing plant acquired by Keasbey & Mattison Company”.
See also
- Keasbey & Mattison Company: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Asbestos exposure sites in Louisiana
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1947, October 1947 (October 1, 1947), p. 42.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1947, December 1947 (December 1, 1947), p. 6.
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