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Plastic Emulsion (Armstrong Cork)

Documents in our library describe Plastic Emulsion (Armstrong Cork) as “finish coating (cold room finish)”.1 It was rated for temperatures up to 200 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Plastic Emulsion (Armstrong Cork) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)

  • Temperature limit: “-25 to 200”, p. 1211
  • Asbestos content: “Asphalt with asbestos fibers, can also contain clay and silica sand.”, p. 1211
  • Description: “ASPHALT EMULSION (Cold Room Finish)”, p. 1211
  • Form: “Finish Coating (Cold Room Finish)”, p. 1211

Armstrong's Industrial Insulations (1951)

  • Asbestos content: “a mixture of Armstrong's Asphalt Emulsion, asbestos fibers, sand, and water”, p. 132
  • Use: “sand finish for air-conditioning ducts”, p. 432
  • Ingredient: “50 gallons Armstrong's Asphalt Emulsion, 112 lbs. asbestos fibers, 275 lbs. dry, screened sand, 15 gallons clean water”, p. 132

Kind of product

We list Plastic Emulsion (Armstrong Cork) with insulating cement and coatings, 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, Boilermakers.

Other insulating cement and coatings by Armstrong Cork (6)

Insulmastic · SP Emulsion · Armatemp 10 · Armatemp 166 · Hy Temp · S-90 Tile

Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (318)

Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · One Cote Cement (Eagle-Picher) · One Shot (Rock Wool Manufacturing Co.) · One-cote (Eagle-Picher) · P-k (Keene/Ehret) · Perforated Saffit Panels (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Permiseal (Combustion Engineering) · Pittcote 600 B (Pittsburgh Corning) · Plisulate (Plibrico Jointless Firebrick) · Powerhouse (Keene) · Protektite (Bitucote) · Pyroscat (Combustion Engineering) · Quik Set (Forty-Eight Insulations) · Red Top (U.S. Gypsum) · S.I.S. (Celotex) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · and 298 more: all insulating cement and coatings

See also

References

  1. Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 121.
  2. Armstrong's Industrial Insulations (January 1, 1951), p. 13.

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