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Armaspray (Armstrong Cork)

Armaspray was a spray-on insulation made by Armstrong Cork Company.1,2 In sworn answers given in a lawsuit in 1970, Armstrong said: "Beginning about October 1966 we manufactured a group of products known as Armaspray," and described it as "a binder coated mineral fiber insulating material, containing about 9% asbestos."3 When Armstrong's answer was read aloud at a 1971 trial in another lawsuit, the reading gave the figure as 9% asbestos.4

A 1990 EPA notice that published what the company reported says Armaspray was produced from 1966 to 1968 by Armstrong, as a spray-on thermal system insulation.2 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives the same years of manufacture, and notes that it was "sold solely to AC&S."1

In June 1969, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, still reported Armaspray 16 as a new insulation, "a blend of asbestos fibers, mineral wool fibers and inorganic binders," designed for use indoors or outdoors at temperatures up to 1600F on the hot face.2,5 It was processed at the job site from fifty-pound bales of compressed dry material, through a special Armaspray Spraying Machine.5 The magazine said it was being used on stacks, tanks, lines and equipment at Interstate Paper Corporation's new plant at Riceboro, Georgia, where the insulation contract went to Armstrong Contracting and Supply Corporation.5

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What each document says

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The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)

  • Made from: “66”, p. 31
  • Description: “SOLD SOLELY TO AC&S”, p. 31
  • Made until: “68”, p. 31
  • Form: “SPRAY INSULATION”, p. 31

Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)

  • Description: “Armaspray (produced 1966 to 1968 by Armstrong) was a spray-on thermal system insulation.”, said by Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (formerly Armstrong Cork Company), as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 42
  • Made from: “produced 1966 to 1968 by Armstrong”, said by Armstrong World Industries, Inc., as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 42
  • Made until: “produced 1966 to 1968 by Armstrong”, said by Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (formerly Armstrong Cork Company), as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 42

The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Objections and answer to interrogatories

  • Made from: “Beginning about October 1966 we manufactured a group of products known as Armaspray.”, p. 23
  • Description: “a binder coated mineral fiber insulating material”, p. 23
  • Asbestos content: “a binder coated mineral fiber insulating material, containing about 9% asbestos”, p. 23

The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Trial transcript, volume I

  • Asbestos content: “binder coated mineral fiber insulating material, containing 9% asbestos”, said by Armstrong Cork Company, as recorded by Borel v. Fibreboard trial transcript (answer read into the record by plaintiff's counsel Stephenson), p. 194

Asbestos Magazine, 1969, June 1969

  • Use: “insulation of stacks, tanks, lines and equipment at Interstate Paper Corporation's new plant at Riceboro, Georgia; contract awarded to Armstrong Contracting and Supply Corporation” (sales to Interstate Paper Corporation, Riceboro, Georgia (installed by Armstrong Contracting and Supply Corporation)), p. 145
  • Ingredient: “a blend of asbestos fibers, mineral wool fibers and inorganic binders”, p. 145
  • Form: “processed, at the job site, from fifty-pound bales of compressed dry material through a special Armaspray Spraying Machine”, p. 145
  • Temperature limit: “for use either indoors or outdoors from ambient temperatures to 1600F (Hot Face)”, p. 145

The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories

  • Made from: “Beginning about October 1966”, p. 26
  • Use: “Asbestos in spray form is applied by mechanical spray equipment which, at a nozzle, combines atomized water mist with the mix to form a lightweight mat.”, p. 166
  • Asbestos content: “containing about 9% asbestos”, p. 26
  • Description: “a group of products known as Armaspray. This is a binder coated mineral fiber insulating material”, p. 26

Kind of product

We list Armaspray (Armstrong Cork) with sprayed insulation, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Drywall Finishers, Plasterers, and Painters.

Other sprayed insulation by Armstrong Cork (2)

Armor Spray · Armospray 16

Sprayed insulation by other makers (24)

Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · SprayCraft (Smith & Kanzler) · Limpet (AC&S) · Pyrospray I,T & S (Keene) · Sprayed Limpet Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Silbestos (Sprayed Asbestos Insulations) · Spray Craft (Asbestos Fibers) · Spray Craft (Smith & Kanzler) · Spray-Cote (Sprayed Insulation) · SprayCraft (Philip Carey) · Zonolite Mono-Kote Mk-1 (W. R. Grace) · Armaspray #16 (AC&S) · Cafco-Asbestos (Cafco) · Fibrespray Asbestos (Acoustic) · Forty-Eight Spray Insulation (48 Insulations) · Greycoat (Cape Asbestos) · Limpet (Nicolet) · Mono-spray (Keene) · Monospray (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Pyrospray (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · and 4 more: all sprayed insulation

See also

References

  1. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 3.
  2. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 4.
  3. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Objections and answer to interrogatories (April 28, 1970), p. 2.
  4. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Trial transcript, volume I (September 21, 1971), p. 19.
  5. Asbestos Magazine, 1969, June 1969 (June 1, 1969), p. 14.
  6. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories (April 28, 1970), p. 2.

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