The Flintkote Company plant at Vernon, California

The Flintkote Company had a plant at Vernon, California, one of four plants in the key to manufacturing locations that the company gave in its sworn answers to interrogatories and requests for admission in asbestos cases in the Eastern District of Texas, filed in 1985: "CH = CHICAGO HEIGHTS, IL / ER = EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ / NO = NEW ORLEANS, LA / V = VERNON, CA."¹ Those answers are the only source here on the plant, and they give a separate span of years at Vernon for each asbestos-containing product, from the 1940s to 1982.¹

What the plant made

The oldest lines at Vernon, by the company's dates, were roofing and building compounds from the 1940s: C-13-C4 roof coating (1940-1982), Fibrex Cement, GF-8 Tile Cement and Plastic Cement 810-21 (each "Early 1940's-1982"), C-13-A ("1940's-1979") and Thermalkote ("Late 1940's-1982").¹ Weld-On is listed at Vernon for "1940's-1982," although the answers print its name as "Weldon Cement East only."¹ Fiber Roof Coating followed in 1945 and #229 Anti-Sweat Compound in 1947, made at Vernon until 1978.¹

Next the answers date Vapor-Seal at Vernon from 1951 to 1978 (Vernon is the only plant they list for it), C-19 from 1954 to 1981 and All-Weather Mastic from 1956 to 1982.¹ Later came Filler Coat (1964-1982), Aluminum Roof Coating 810-19 and Rain Patch (both 1969-1982), and Hydrostatic Mastic, "1973-1982 (V) West Coast only."¹

What the products were

The same answers describe the products in general, not Vernon's output in particular: most were asphalt coatings, cements and adhesives for roofs, insulation and floors, such as C-13-C4, a "Brush or spray grade asphalt emulsion roof coating," and GF-8, a "Floor tile cement."¹ The asbestos content they give ranges by product, from "3%" for C-13-C4 to "20-25%" for C-19, with "14-19%" for Thermalkote and "16-19%" for Plastic Cement 810-21.¹ An insurance company's products list, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives different years for Thermalkote, made from 1964 to 1981; that list does not name a plant.²

Location

Pictures of products made here

Labels, packages, photographs and catalog pages from our library of products documents say were made at this plant. Each picture has its own page and library number.

• Product image: All-Weather Mastic and 7 other productsThermalkote (Flintkote); Vapor-Seal (Flintkote)Other · ACL Doc 15097
• Label: FIBREX CEMENT (The Flintkote Company)Fibrex Cement (Flintkote)Label or package · ACL Doc 15017
• Label: WELD-ON (The Flintkote Company)Weld-on (Flintkote)Label or package · ACL Doc 15083

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.

• #229 Anti-Sweat Compound (Flintkote) · 1947–1978¹
• Aluminum Roof Coating 810-19 (Flintkote) · 1969–1982¹
• C-13-A (Flintkote) · 1940–1979¹
• C-13-C4 (Flintkote) · 1940–1982¹
• C-19 (Flintkote) · 1954–1981¹
• Fiber Roof Coating (Flintkote) · 1945–1982¹
• Fibrex Cement (Flintkote) · 1940–1982¹
• Filler Coat (Flintkote) · 1964–1982¹
• Gf-8 Tile Cement (Flintkote) · 1940–1982¹
• Hydrostatic Mastic (Flintkote) · 1973–1982¹
• Plastic Cement 810-21 (Flintkote) · 1940–1982¹
• Rain Patch (Flintkote) · 1956–1982¹
• Thermalkote (Flintkote) · 1940–1982¹
• Vapor-Seal (Flintkote) · 1951–1978¹
• Weld-on (Flintkote) · 1940–1982¹

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 Flintkote asbestos trust. Free case review.

What each document says

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

Flintkote's Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories and Requests for Admission in the Eastern District of Texas

• Asbestos products made: “All-Weather Mastic 1956–1982; Aluminum Roof Coating (810-19) 1969–1982; C-13-A (100-14) 1940s–1979; C-13-C4 (800-13) 1940–1982; C-19 (110-14) 1954–1981; Fiber Roof Coating (FTC) 1945–1982; Fibrex Cement 1940s–1982; Filler Coat (900-20) 1964–1982; GF-8 Tile Cement 1940s–1982; Hydrostatic Mastic 1973–1982; #229 Anti-Sweat CPD. 1947–1978; Plastic Cement (810-21) 1940s–1982; Rain Patch (810-25) 1969–1982; Thermalkote (100-15) 1940s–1982; Vapor Seal 1951–1978; Weldon Cement East only 1940s–1982” (The Flintkote Company), p. 28¹

Other names

Documents call this plant “VERNON, CA”, “V”.

See also

• The Flintkote Company: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in California

References

1. Flintkote's Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories and Requests for Admission in the Eastern District of Texas (October 10, 1985), pp. 28–33.
2. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 8.