Eternit, Inc. / The Ruberoid Company plant at St. Louis, Missouri

In December 1926, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that Eternit, Inc. was building "a new million dollar Asbestos Shingle factory" in Saint Louis, Missouri: thirty-two acres had been bought in the north of the city, construction had started, and "the plant will be in operation in a few months."³ A year later the same journal wrote that Eternit had adopted a new, wider asbestos-cement corrugated roofing, and that "their" Saint Louis plant "will manufacture that type of Corrugated exclusively."¹

The plant then changed hands: in January 1931 Asbestos reported that the Ruberoid Company had acquired Eternit, Inc.² In July 1934 the journal described the Saint Louis works as Ruberoid's "western plant for the manufacture of Asbestos Cement (Eternit) materials."⁴

Location

What each document says

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

Other names

Documents call this plant “new million dollar Asbestos Shingle factory at St. Louis, Mo.”, “their St. Louis plant”, “western plant for the manufacture of Asbestos Cement (Eternit) materials”.

See also

• Eternit, Inc.: the company's documents, people, products and plants
• The Ruberoid Company: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in Missouri

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1927, November 1927 (November 1, 1927), p. 18.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1931, January 1931 (January 1, 1931), p. 6.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1926, December 1926 (December 1, 1926), p. 47.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1934, July 1934 (July 1, 1934), p. 8.