Documents in our library describe Chroma-Tex (Asbestone) as “new, decorator-styled chrome-tex siding shingles (asbestos-cement)”.1 They give it as sold from 1953.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Chroma-Tex (Asbestone) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1953, May 1953
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “siding, shingles” (as of 1953), p. 682
Kind of product
We list Chroma-Tex (Asbestone) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers, Roofers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Asbestone (2)
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (381)
Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Cemesto Board (Celotex) · Cemesto Structural Insulating Panels (Celotex) · Century (Keasbey & Mattison) · Certa-Seal (CertainTeed) · Chemstone (Johns-Manville) · China-Glaze (United States Gypsum) · Chrom-Tex (Keasbey & Mattison) · Chroma-Tone (National Gypsum) · Classic (Gold Bond Building Products (National Gypsum)) · Classic-Shake (National Gypsum) · Clipfast (GAF) · Color Ground (Ruberoid) · Color-tex (GAF) · Color-Tex (Ruberoid) · Colorator (Ruberoid) · and 361 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1953, May 1953 (May 1, 1953), p. 50.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 68. Not yet published in our library.
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“Chroma-Tex (Asbestone).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/asbestone-chroma-tex.
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