Documents in our library describe Excelon (some styles) (Armstrong Cork) as “excelon tile, low-cost vinyl-asbestos flooring; new metallic styling series”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Excelon (some styles) (Armstrong Cork) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1958, December 1958
- Description: “Excelon Tile, low-cost vinyl-asbestos flooring; new Metallic styling series”, said by Armstrong Cork Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 521
Asbestos Magazine, 1959, March 1959
- Use: “3/32-inch gauge for commercial-institutional buildings; on, above or below grade”, said by Armstrong Cork Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 382
Asbestos Magazine, 1970, October 1970
- Description: “service-gauge "Excelon" vinyl-asbestos tile (price increase effective November 1, 1970)” (as of 1970), said by Armstrong Cork Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 383
The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)
- Description: “EXCELON, FLOOR TILE, ARMSTRONG CORK”, p. 44
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “vinyl asbestos floor tiles” (as of 1953, 1959), p. 745
Kind of product
We list Excelon (some styles) (Armstrong Cork) with floor tile, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Flooring Installers.
Other floor tile by Armstrong Cork (23)
Excelon · Hydrocord · Chancery · Chandelle · Corlon, Aprina · Voltaire · Corlon, Mantina · Corlon, Norager · Corlon, Pirelle · Corlon, Serenada · Corlon, Tessera · Custom Excelon Tile, Voltaire · Excelon Feature · Imperial Excelon · Imperial Modern Excelon · Montrel Excelon · Palatial · Place'N Press Excelon Tile, Chancery · Presidential Excelon · Standard Excelon · and 3 more on the company's page
Floor tile by other makers (175)
Terraflex (Johns-Manville) · Agate Chip (Kentile) · Debonair (Kentile) · Marrakech (Johns-Manville) · Au Naturel (Kentile) · Columbia Star (Columbia Wax) · Constellation (Kentile) · Corktone (Kentile) · Cortina (Azrock Floor Products Div., Uvalde Rock Asphalt) · Designer Solids (Flintkote) · Dominique (Congoleum) · Eerkshire (Kentile) · Fashioncraft (GAF) · Federal Stone (Kentile) · Fibre-Tuff (Malott & Peterson-Grundy) · Flex-Slate (Flintkote) · Flexachrome (Flintkote) · Flexchrome Marbleized (Flintkote) · Flexgold (Flintkote) · Flexslate (Flintkote) · and 155 more: all floor tile
See also
- Armstrong Cork: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Armstrong Cork on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1958, December 1958 (December 1, 1958), p. 52.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1959, March 1959 (March 1, 1959), p. 38.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1970, October 1970 (October 1, 1970), p. 38.
- The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 4.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 74. Not yet published in our library.
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