Owens-Illinois Glass Company plant at Sayreville, New Jersey

The Owens-Illinois Glass Company made its Kaylo insulation at Sayreville, New Jersey, according to the company's sworn answers in a 1988 lawsuit, which name Berlin and Sayreville, New Jersey, as the plants for its "Kaylo" asbestos-containing products.¹ The same answers say that "the Sayreville plant was in operation from February, 1948 until about April 30, 1953."¹

The Navy's 1951 list of qualified products names Sayreville, N. J., among the plants for Kaylo.² In December 1953, an item in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, from Samuel Feldman referred to "the premises of the OWENS-ILLINOIS GLASS CO., Kaylo Div., Sayreville, N. J."³

Owens-Illinois's own people described Kaylo in general, not Sayreville's output in particular: its director of research called the material "a hydrous calcium silicate," and a man in its Industrial Relations Division wrote that it held "15 to 20 percent of asbestos of the amosite and chrysotile varieties."^4,5 A Kaylo Division writer described it as "a solid formed by a chemical reaction of lime, white sand, and water, with fibers added to give toughness."⁶

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.

• Product photograph: KAYLO PIPE INSULATION (OWENS-ILLINOIS GLASS COMPANY)Kaylo (Owens-Illinois)Product photograph · ACL Doc 15162
• Package: Kaylo pipe insulation carton (Owens-Illinois Glass Company)Kaylo (Owens-Illinois)Label or package · ACL Doc 20682
• Package: Kaylo Heat Insulation carton (Owens-Corning Fiberglas / Owens-Illinois)Kaylo (Owens-Illinois)Label or package · ACL Doc 20680
• Package: Kaylo pipe insulation carton (Owens-Illinois Glass Company) (2)Kaylo (Owens-Illinois)Label or package · ACL Doc 20681

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.

• Kaylo (Owens-Illinois) · from 1951^2,3

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 Owens-Illinois Asbestos Personal Injury Trust. Free case review.

What each document says

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

Owens-Illinois's Responses to Plaintiffs' First Interrogatories in Bexley v. Armstrong World Industries (1988)

• Operated: “from February, 1948 until about April 30, 1953” (Owens-Illinois Glass Company), p. 7¹
• Asbestos products made: “manufacturing plants ... for "Kaylo" asbestos-containing products” (Owens-Illinois Glass Company), p. 7¹

Other names

Documents call this plant “Sayreville, New Jersey”, “Sayreville, N. J.”, “Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Kaylo Div., Sayreville, N. J.”, “Sayreville, N.J.”.

See also

• Owens-Illinois Glass Company: the company's documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in New Jersey

References

1. Owens-Illinois's Responses to Plaintiffs' First Interrogatories in Bexley v. Armstrong World Industries (March 25, 1988), p. 7.
2. Military Qualified Products List (1951–1995) (December 3, 1951), p. 1.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1953, December 1953 (December 1, 1953), p. 35.
4. U. E. Bowes to Leroy U. Gardner Asking Saranac to Test a Hydrous Calcium Silicate (February 12, 1943), p. 1.
5. W. G. Hazard to Arthur J. Vorwald on the Composition of Kaylo (September 21, 1948), p. 2.
6. Curtis W. Howard to George R. White Proposing the "Handling Kaylo Products" Pamphlet (December 9, 1952), p. 2.