Johns-Manville plant at Niguarda (Milan), Italy

Johns-Manville had a plant at Niguarda, near Milan, Italy, that made Superex high-temperature insulation: in April 1961 J-M's employee magazine named "Niguarda, Italy" as a place where Superex was made, and in February 1962 it wrote that "J-M's Niguarda Plant near Milan, Italy, produces … Superex blocks."^1,2 Those two items are the only sources here on the plant; they do not say when it opened or how long it ran.^1,2

J-M's own descriptions of Superex, which apply to the product in general and not to Niguarda's output in particular, call it pipe and block insulation "Made from asbestos fiber, diatomaceous silica and other insulating materials."³ In 1989 the fund that answered lawsuits for Manville Corporation gave its asbestos as "Chrysotile and/or Amosite," at "8.4 - 15.0 % fiber by weight," in sworn answers to interrogatories.⁴

Location

Pictures of products made here

Labels, packages, photographs and catalog pages from our library of products documents say were made at this plant. Each picture has its own page and library number.

• Label: Superex trademark (Johns-Manville, Inc.)Superex (Johns-Manville)Label or package · ACL Doc 20597

Asbestos products made here

The products documents say were made at this plant, with the years a document gives for the product here. Each product's page has what the documents say about it, including its asbestos content.

• Superex (Johns-Manville) · from 1961^1,2

Asbestos claims

If you or a family member worked at this plant, lived with someone who did, or worked with its products, and later developed mesothelioma or another asbestos disease, a claim may be paid by the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust. Free case review.

Other names

Documents call this plant “J-M's Niguarda Plant near Milan, Italy”, “Niguarda, Italy”, “Niguarda (Milan), Italy”.

See also

• Johns-Manville: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants

References

1. J-M News Pictorial, 1961, April 1961 (April 1, 1961), p. 16.
2. J-M News Pictorial, 1962, February 1962 (February 1, 1962), p. 9.
3. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories with exhibits (March 27, 1970), p. 29.
4. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 121.