Mundet Cork Corporation plant at North Bergen, New Jersey

In September 1950, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that the Mundet Cork Corporation's magnesia plant on Tonnelle Avenue, from 71st to 74th Streets, in North Bergen, New Jersey, was operating, and that Mundet was "manufacturing custom molded 85% Magnesia Pipe Covering and Block Insulation" there.¹ With these facilities, the journal said, Mundet "now manufactures both high and low temperature insulation covering, all ranges."¹ The item does not say whether the insulation contained asbestos.¹

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What each document says

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

Asbestos Magazine, 1950, September 1950

• Operated: “Mundet Magnesia Plant at North Bergen now operating; Tonnelle Avenue, 71st to 74th Streets” (Mundet Cork Corporation), p. 40¹
• Products made: “molded 85% Magnesia Pipe Covering and Block Insulation; high and low temperature insulation covering” (Mundet Cork Corporation), p. 40¹

Other names

Documents call this plant “Mundet Magnesia Plant at North Bergen”, “Mundet Cork Plant at North Bergen, N. J.”.

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in New Jersey

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1950, September 1950 (September 1, 1950), p. 40.