In June 1970, a Raybestos-Manhattan item in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, said its Novatex asbestos yarn was being manufactured at a pilot plant in North Charleston, South Carolina.2 The company described Novatex as a "totally inorganic asbestos yarn produced by a new wet process," of "ASTM Grade AAAA (99 to 100 per cent asbestos content)," for protective clothing, the metal and glass industries and foundries.2
In January 1976 the same journal reported that Raybestos-Manhattan had spent "the past five years and at a cost of several million dollars" developing the Novatex process, and that the material was "now in commercial production at the plant of Raybestos Manhattan Industrial Products Company, North Charleston, South Carolina."1 Raybestos-Manhattan's textile group listed Novatex as cloth, tape, tubing and yarn.3 An insurance company's list, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives Novatex as made from 1967 to 1981 and as 100% asbestos; that list describes the product in general and names no plant.4
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- Novatex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · from 19702
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Asbestos Magazine, 1976, January 1976
- Products made: “Novatex asbestos textile material now in commercial production at the plant of Raybestos Manhattan Industrial Products Company, North Charleston, South Carolina” (Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 321
Other names
Documents call this plant “pilot plant in North Charleston, South Carolina”, “North Charleston, South Carolina (pilot plant)”.
See also
- Raybestos-Manhattan: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Asbestos exposure sites in South Carolina
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1976, January 1976 (January 1, 1976), p. 32.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1970, June 1970 (June 1, 1970), p. 22.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1978, February 1978 (February 1, 1978), p. 68.
- The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 7.
Mentioned on this site
- A. F. Heinsohn to Sumner Simpson Returning Cilley's Letter and Proposing Another Dust Check (1944)
- Asbestos Timeline
- Asbestos Timeline
- Dr. Joseph L. Goodman to Dr. Hilton C. Lewinsohn on Workers with Asbestosis (1977)
- Dr. R. R. Sayers of the Public Health Service to E. H. Jeffords on Publishing the North Charleston Dust Study (1937)
- E. H. Jeffords to A. E. Rathgeb of Johns-Manville on His Visit to the North Charleston Plant (1937)
- E. H. Jeffords to M. F. Judd Acknowledging the Lanza Report (1935)
- E. H. Jeffords to Metropolitan Life Asking for a New Survey of the North Charleston Plant (1943)
- E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson Enclosing the Mule Spinning Dust Study (1938)
- E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson on Metropolitan Life's Resurvey of the North Charleston Plant (1943)
- E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson on the Continuance of the McCurley Suit (1935)
- E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson on the Fire Insurers' Review of the Charleston Dust Tunnel (1935)
- E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson on the State Health Board's Second Dust Study at North Charleston (1937)
- Edward A. Barrier of Arkwright Mutual to E. H. Jeffords on the North Charleston Dust Tunnel Plans (1935)
- M. F. Judd to H. B. Meller Asking for Air Hygiene Foundation Bulletins for Each Division (1938)
- M. F. Judd to W. H. Dunn on Charging the Charleston Re-check Survey to the General Asbestos & Rubber Division (1936)
- Memo to E. H. Jeffords on Asbestos Bags for Dust Collection (1935)
- O. H. Cilley to Sumner Simpson Enclosing the Pennsylvania Survey of the Manheim Textile Mill (1944)
- O. H. Cilley to Sumner Simpson on Manheim Dust Counts for 1935, 1938 and 1939 (1939)
- Sumner Simpson to A. S. Rossiter Inviting Asbestos Magazine to See Raybestos-Manhattan's Dust Control (1938)
- Sumner Simpson to E. H. Jeffords Sending Gardner's Second Progress Report (1938)
- Sumner Simpson to George R. Weber on the Startling Metropolitan Life Report on Manheim (1935)
- Sumner Simpson to Julian Mitchell Arranging to See Vandiver Brown (1935)
- Sumner Simpson to Leroy U. Gardner Enclosing Dr. Lynch's Letter (1938)
- Sumner Simpson to Vandiver Brown on Asbestos Magazine's Request to Write about Asbestosis (1935)
- The Motley 1000
- The Sumner Simpson Papers
- W. J. McConnell of Metropolitan Life to O. H. Cilley on Firms for Dust Removal (1936)
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