Alumco (American Lumber Company)

Documents in our library describe Alumco (American Lumber Company) as “dressed and rough lumber, plywood, wood pulp boards, rockwood, thermal and sound insulating materials, prepared roofing and building materials in sheet, rolled sheet and shingle form-namely, asphalt, asbestos, and mineral surfaced shingles, siding and wall boards, fibre boards, building paper, roofing paper and waterproofing paper”.¹ They give it as sold from 1944.¹

What each document says

Every statement about Alumco (American Lumber Company) in the documents, in each document's own words.

USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)

• Sold from: “first used in commerce 1944-05-01”, said by AMERICAN LUMBER COMPANY, INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office¹
• Description: “DRESSED AND ROUGH LUMBER, PLYWOOD, WOOD PULP BOARDS, ROCKWOOD, THERMAL AND SOUND INSULATING MATERIALS, PREPARED ROOFING AND BUILDING MATERIALS IN SHEET, ROLLED SHEET AND SHINGLE FORM-NAMELY, ASPHALT, ASBESTOS, AND MINERAL SURFACED SHINGLES, SIDING AND WALL BOARDS, FIBRE BOARDS, BUILDING PAPER, ROOFING PAPER AND WATERPROOFING PAPER”, said by AMERICAN LUMBER COMPANY, INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office¹

Kind of product

We list Alumco (American Lumber Company) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet and paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers, Roofers.

References

1. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (August 10, 1944). Not yet published in our library.