Johns-Manville plant at Stockton, California

In March 1956, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, carried Johns-Manville's announcement that it "will build a new plant to manufacture Transite asbestos-cement pipe products near Stockton, California," with "completion expected by the middle of 1957."⁴ The announcement said the Stockton plant "initially will employ about 350 people with an annual payroll of $1,500,000" and would cover "about 225,000 square feet of operating space."⁴ In its sworn answers in a 1990 lawsuit, the fund that answered for Manville Corporation placed the plant at Sperry Road and Airport Way, Stockton, and dated it "1957 to 1982."³

The plant made asbestos-cement pipe. In April 1966, J-M's president told the company's employee magazine, the J-M News Pictorial, of "increased production facilities at Stockton Plant in California, where asbestos-cement pipe is produced."¹ The same magazine reported in 1969 that at the Stockton Pipe Plant "production capacity was expanded for large diameter TRANSITE asbestos-cement pipe used in water transmission, irrigation and sewer systems."² The Manville fund's 1990 answers list "Transite Pipe" among the Stockton plant's products.³

Those answers also name the doctors who served the Stockton plant: Doctor Robert Salter from 1957 to 1967, Doctor Joseph Wilson from 1967 to 1971, and Doctor Oliver Vannucci and Doctor William Arthur, "1967 to 1982."³

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.

• Transite Pipe (Johns-Manville)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 Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust. Free case review.

What each document says

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

Other names

Documents call this plant “Stockton Plant”, “Stockton, California”, “Stockton, CA Plant”.

See also

• Johns-Manville: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in California

References

1. J-M News Pictorial, 1966, April 1966 (April 1, 1966), p. 10.
2. J-M News Pictorial, 1969, March 1969 (the scan ends with pages repeated from April 1969) (March 1, 1969), p. 4.
3. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), pp. 20, 26, 59.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1956, March 1956 (March 1, 1956), p. 52.
5. J. A. McKinney, Dr. Paul Kotin and Guy Gabrielson of Nicolet on Crocidolite, Mesothelioma and Stockton (1977), McKinney to Gabrielson, June 28, 1977 (June 28, 1977), p. 2.