Documents in our library describe Caposil 1400 (Cape Asbestos) as “"caposil 1400" calcium silicate, thermal insulation materials”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Caposil 1400 (Cape Asbestos) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1961, October 1961
- Description: “"Caposil 1400" calcium silicate, thermal insulation materials”, p. 561
Asbestos Magazine, 1966, May 1966
- Use: “block lagging for the thermal insulation of refinery plant, boilers, tanks, vessels and chemical plant”, said by Cape Insulation and Asbestos Products Limited, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 162
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “Caposil 1400 (listed, product not given)” (as of 1961), p. 643
Kind of product
We list Caposil 1400 (Cape Asbestos) with pipe covering and block insulation, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers.
Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (276)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Calsilite (Ruberoid) · Calsilite Insulation Cement (GAF) · Calsilite-H1 (Ruberoid) · Calsilite-Hi (GAF) · Caltemp (Fibreboard) · Caltemp Cement (Fibreboard) · Caltherm (Fibreboard) · Caposite (Holmes Foundry) · Caposite Plus (Cape Insulation) · Carey Cal-silicate (Philip Carey) · Carey-temp (Celotex) · Careycel (Philip Carey) · Careytemp 2000 (Philip Carey) · Carocel (Philip Carey) · Castablock (Combustion Engineering) · and 256 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
See also
- Cape Asbestos: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1961, October 1961 (October 1, 1961), p. 56.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1966, May 1966 (May 1, 1966), p. 16.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 64. Not yet published in our library.
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“Caposil 1400 (Cape Asbestos).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/cape-asbestos-caposil-1400.
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