The Keasbey & Mattison Company made asbestos-cement products in Saint Louis, Missouri: a 1958 Keasbey & Mattison item in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, says that a manager joined the company in 1927 "as traffic manager of the newly completed" Saint Louis plant.2 In August 1937 the company announced, in the same journal, that a second plant "devoted to asbestos cement pressure pipe production will shortly go into construction" in Saint Louis, where it "already has an asbestos-cement plant in operation."3 The announcement put "additional employment at these two new plants," the new works at Ambler and Saint Louis together, at "approximately 350 men."3
The pipe plant was built: writing in Asbestos in January 1939, Keasbey & Mattison's president, Ernest Muehleck, said that during 1938 the company had completed its new works at Ambler, Pennsylvania, and Saint Louis "for the manufacture of asbestos-cement pressure pipes, cable conduit and tubing."4 By 1957 the company spoke of more than one Saint Louis factory: a 1957 item names a Quality Control Supervisor for the company's "asbestos-cement pipe, shingles, corrugated and wallboard factories" there.1
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Asbestos Magazine, 1957, September 1957
- Products made: “asbestos-cement pipe, shingles, corrugated and wallboard factories at St. Louis” (Keasbey & Mattison Company), said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 501
Asbestos Magazine, 1958, January 1958
- Opened: “the newly completed St. Louis, Mo., plant (1927)” (Keasbey & Mattison Company), said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 562
Asbestos Magazine, 1937, August 1937
- Operated: “Keasbey & Mattison Company already has an asbestos-cement plant in operation [St. Louis]; second pressure-pipe plant to be built there” (Keasbey & Mattison Company), said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 203
- Workforce: “approximately 350 men at the two new plants (Ambler and St. Louis together)” (Keasbey & Mattison Company), said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 203
Asbestos Magazine, 1939, January 1939
- Opened: “During 1938 ... completed its new works at Ambler, Pa., and St. Louis, Mo., for the manufacture of asbestos-cement pressure pipes, cable conduit and tubing” (Keasbey & Mattison Company), said by Ernest Muehleck, President, Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 84
Other names
Documents call this plant “asbestos-cement plant in operation (St. Louis)”, “new St. Louis plant”, “St. Louis factories”, “K&M's St. Louis factory”, “asbestos-cement products plant in St. Louis”.
See also
- Keasbey & Mattison Company: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Asbestos exposure sites in Missouri
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1957, September 1957 (September 1, 1957), p. 50.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1958, January 1958 (January 1, 1958), p. 56.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1937, August 1937 (August 1, 1937), p. 20.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1939, January 1939 (January 1, 1939), p. 8.
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