United States Gypsum Company plant at Norfolk, Virginia

United States Gypsum Company listed its plant at Norfolk, Virginia, in its sworn answers in two asbestos lawsuits, in 1986 and 1988, as the place where it made three plaster and stucco products, each with its own years.^1,2 Both answers give the same Norfolk years; in the 1988 copy the name of the first product is cut off.²

By those answers, Norfolk made Oriental Interior Finish Plaster from 1949 to 1950 and Oriental Exterior Finish Stucco from 1949 to 1972, and Red Top Structo-Lite Gypsum Plaster for Machine Application, a "Basecoat," from 1955 to 1962.^1,2

The same answers give wider years for the products as a whole, made at all of the company's plants: Oriental Exterior Finish Stucco "First Produced 1930" and "Last Produced 1973," Oriental Interior Finish Plaster "First Produced 1942" and "Last Produced 1972," and the Structo-Lite machine plaster "First Produced 1955" and "Last Produced 1972."^1,2 An insurance company's list, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives other years again: Oriental from 1942 to 1970 and Structo-Lite from 1955 to 1970.³ Those product-wide years are not Norfolk's; the Norfolk years are the ones above.¹

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: Oriental Exterior Stucco Finish Coat (United States Gypsum Company)Oriental (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 20497
• Label: Oriental Exterior (United States Gypsum Company)Oriental (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 20495

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.

• Oriental (U.S. Gypsum) · 1949–1972^1,2
• Structo-lite (U.S. Gypsum) · 1955–1962^1,2

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 United States Gypsum Asbestos PI Settlement Trust. Free case review.

What each document says

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

See also

• United States Gypsum Company: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in Virginia

References

1. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 46–48.
2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 40–41.
3. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), pp. 7–8.