CertainTeed Corporation plant at Santa Clara, California

The asbestos-cement plant at Santa Clara, California, began as a Keasbey & Mattison Company project: in December 1950, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that the company's plans "for the construction of a plant to produce asbestos-cement products are going forward but no definite date for starting work on the new plant has as yet been established."⁴ In April 1952 the journal understood that the plant, "for the manufacture of Asbestos Cement pipe," would "be started within the current year, 1952."⁵

In January 1954 Asbestos reported that "'Century' asbestos-cement pressure pipe now is being produced at Santa Clara," in Keasbey & Mattison's newest plant, "recently completed at a cost of $2,750,000," on "a 26-acre site 40 miles south of San Francisco."³ A 1958 company item on a retiring employee, Arthur G. Jeffers, said he was transferred to California in 1953, "where he became traffic manager of the firm's new Santa Clara plant."²

In 2000, CertainTeed Corporation's sworn answers in a lawsuit listed the plant as "Santa Clara, CA (1953-1982), LaFayette & Kifer Roads," and as a maker of asbestos-cement pipe.¹ The same answers said dust samples "were taken periodically at CertainTeed's asbestos-cement pipe plants subsequent to June 1, 1962 (when CertainTeed began manufacturing asbestos-cement pipe)," by state or federal agencies or by its insurers' loss control departments, "and subsequent to 1973 by defendant's employees."¹

Location

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.

• Asbestos-Cement Pipe (CertainTeed)¹

What each document says

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

See also

• CertainTeed Corporation: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in California

References

1. CertainTeed's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Havenor v. W.D. Industries (May 25, 2000), pp. 21, 35.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1958, January 1958 (January 1, 1958), p. 56.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1954, January 1954 (January 1, 1954), p. 22.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1950, December 1950 (December 1, 1950), p. 44.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1952, April 1952 (April 1, 1952), p. 62.