United States Gypsum Company plant at Torrance, California

United States Gypsum Company named its Torrance, California, plant as the place two of its fireproofing products were made, in sworn answers in a 1986 lawsuit, Dikun against Armstrong World Industries, and again in 1988 answers to master interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma.^1,2 Both sets of answers list SprayDon Standard A, "First Produced: 1966 Last Produced: 1971," and SprayDon Standard G, "First Produced: 1968 Last Produced: 1970," each with "Manufacturing Locations: Torrance, CA."^1,2 The company called both products fireproofing.^1,2

The 1988 answers also have a list of discontinued products, and there the dates differ: it gives 1972 as the "Last Date of Manufacture" for both SprayDon products, and says they were discontinued "At the direction of Sprayon Research Corporation."² The company's answers give SprayDon Standard A's asbestos content as "29.7% by volume" and SprayDon Standard G's as "7.6% by volume"; those figures describe the products, not the Torrance plant's output in particular.^1,2

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.

• SprayDon Standard A (U.S. Gypsum) · 1966–1971^1,2
• SprayDon Standard G (U.S. Gypsum) · 1968–1970^1,2

Asbestos claims

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What each document says

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

See also

• United States Gypsum Company: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in California

References

1. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 49, 54.
2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 42, 46, 52.