R. J. Dorn & Co. (R. J. Dorn Co., Inc.) and later owners plant at New Orleans, Louisiana

In February 1923, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that "during January manufacture of Asbestos Corrugated Sheathing was started by R. J. Dorn & Co. in their new plant located at 6300 Tchoupitalous St., New Orleans, La."³ The journal repeated that news in 1973.⁴ A 1943 history in the same journal dated the company a year earlier: it "was incorporated in 1922 for the manufacture and sale of asbestos-cement corrugated roofing and siding and was owned and operated by members of the Dorn family."¹

That 1943 history says that "in 1936 the plant was completely renovated," with new equipment "for the manufacture of asbestos-cement roofing and siding shingles."¹ It also reported that Clifford F. Favrot and Paul G. Charbonnet "on March 3rd purchased the stock of R. J. Dorn Co., Inc., of New Orleans, dissolved and liquidated that company," forming the partnership R. J. Dorn Company.¹

In November 1946 an advertisement announced that "the asbestos-cement manufacturing plant of the R. J. Dorn Company now operates under the name of Asbestone Corporation," and spoke of an expansion program "to meet the demand for Asbestone products, all of which are made in New Orleans."²

Later, Asbestos named plant managers of the "Asbestos-Cement Plant, National Gypsum Co., New Orleans, Louisiana": Harry J. Demare in 1972 and Ray A. Plauche in 1977.^5,6

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 “new plant located at 6300 Tchoupitalous St., New Orleans, La.”, “asbestos-cement manufacturing plant of the R. J. Dorn Company”, “Asbestos-Cement Plant, National Gypsum Co., New Orleans, Louisiana”, “its new plant in New Orleans, Louisiana”.

See also

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

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1943, April 1943 (April 1, 1943), p. 18.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1946, November 1946 (November 1, 1946), p. 23.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1923, February 1923 (February 1, 1923), p. 42.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1973, February 1973 (February 1, 1973), p. 59.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1972, August 1972 (August 1, 1972), p. 40.
6. Asbestos Magazine, 1977, February 1977 (February 1, 1977), p. 42.