Johns-Manville plant at Zelienople, Pennsylvania

In 1940, according to a 1965 article in Johns-Manville's employee magazine, J-M News Pictorial, "Johns-Manville purchased a non-operating plant in Zelienople, Pa., and transformed it into a modern, well-equipped factory for manufacturing insulating firebrick and refractory cement."³ In 1990, the fund that answered lawsuits for Manville Corporation gave a different span in its sworn answers, listing Johns-Manville at "P. O. Box 190, Zelienople, Pennsylvania" from "1943 to 1973."²

In February 1950, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, listed Zelienople among the plants making "Johns-Manville industrial products" whose production a newly appointed J-M manager would supervise.⁴ In April 1966, J-M's president, C. B. Burnett, announced in the News Pictorial the "expansion of the plant at Zelienople, Pa., for production of fire brick insulations."¹ The Manville fund's 1990 answers said that "Zelienople Plant products included" Fireite Furnace Cement and Heat Treating Cement.²

The same answers name the doctors who served the Zelienople plant, beginning with Doctor T. Warren Wilson, from "1940 to 4/75," and list Ellwood City Hospital for chest x-rays from "1942 to 1946."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.

• Fireite (Johns-Manville)²
• Heat Treating Cement (Johns-Manville)²

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 “Zelienople Plant”, “Zelienople, Pennsylvania”, “Zelienople, PA Plant”, “Zelienople”.

See also

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

References

1. J-M News Pictorial, 1966, April 1966 (April 1, 1966), p. 10.
2. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), pp. 20, 28, 61.
3. J-M News Pictorial, 1965, October 1965 (October 1, 1965), p. 2.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1950, February 1950 (February 1, 1950), p. 42.