Philip Carey Manufacturing Company plant at St. Louis

Philip Carey's plant at St. Louis was built to make high-temperature insulation, and its sources differ on where it stood.^1,2 East St. Louis, "adjacent to Alcoa's ore plant," is where a Philip Carey Manufacturing Company notice in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, placed its "planned plant" in May 1930.² St. Louis is where the journal itself put it: in July 1930 it reported that "the first unit of The Philip Carey Company's new high temperature insulation plant" there was "now in full production," and in January 1931 it spoke of a new factory built there "in 1930."^1,3 Neither source names the state.^1,2

The product tied to the plant is Alumino-Hi-Temp.^2,3 Philip Carey first described it as "a new high temperature heat insulating material derived from bauxite," under the trade name "Carey Aluminite," sold as "Insulating Blocks, Bricks and Powder."² Asbestos later reported that "the name Aluminite has been changed to Alumino-Hi-Temp," and that the material "contained asbestos fibre," with fibres "plainly visible in the sample block."⁴ The company named its uses as electric furnaces, boiler settings, heat-treating and glass furnaces and regenerator chambers, at "internal temperatures 1800° F. to 2600° F.," and said Alcoa was equipping its new electric furnaces at Alcoa, Tennessee, with it; these describe the product in general, not what the plant itself turned out.²

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.

• Alumino-Hi-Temp (Philip Carey) · from 1930^2,3

Asbestos claims

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What each document says

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

Asbestos Magazine, 1930, July 1930

• Operated: “The first unit of The Philip Carey Company's new high temperature insulation plant at St. Louis is now in full production” (The Philip Carey Company), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 54¹

Other names

Documents call this plant “new factory built at St. Louis”, “planned plant at East St. Louis adjacent to Alcoa's ore plant”, “East St. Louis”, “St. Louis”.

See also

• Philip Carey Manufacturing Company: the company's documents, people, products and plants

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1930, July 1930 (July 1, 1930), p. 54.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1930, May 1930 (May 1, 1930), p. 24.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1931, January 1931 (January 1, 1931), p. 5.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1930, August 1930 (August 1, 1930), p. 61.