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Zonolite Company / W. R. Grace & Co. plant at New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana, appears in W. R. Grace & Co.'s sworn answers to interrogatories in a 1987 lawsuit as one of the plants that made the fireproofing Zonolite Mono-Kote; the answers say the product "was manufactured at some or all of the plants listed," so the list does not prove that every plant made it.1 For Zonolite Mono-Kote MK-1 the answers list New Orleans with no dates, saying approximate dates of production are not known; for Zonolite Mono-Kote MK-3 they say "some MK-3 was made at this plant for a short period in the early 1960's."1

The same answers describe MK-3 in general, not this plant's output in particular, as a light beige cementitious fireproofing containing short fiber chrysotile asbestos, "approximately 13.23 percent 7M" and 12.18 percent "7R" by weight.1 They say Zonolite Company produced it from 1959 to 1963 and Grace from 1963 until 1973, without saying which company ran each plant.1 For MK-1, a "cementitious light beige fireproofing material," the answers give "approximately 11.9% short fiber Chrysotile asbestos" and say Zonolite Company produced it from 1959; again these figures describe the product, not this plant.1

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Location

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

Asbestos products made here

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W. R. Grace's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Williams v. National Gypsum (1987)

  • Asbestos products made: “Zonolite Mono-Kote (MK-1) (dates not known); Zonolite Mono-Kote (MK-3) some MK-3 was made at this plant for a short period in the early 1960's. "The product was manufactured at some or all of the plants listed below."” (W.R. Grace & Co.), p. 431

See also

References

  1. W. R. Grace's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Williams v. National Gypsum (October 15, 1987), pp. 43–45.

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