Documents in our library describe Greycoat (Cape Asbestos) as “greycoat machine-sprayed baked acrylic finish”.1 They give it as sold from 1971.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Greycoat (Cape Asbestos) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1978, August 1978
- Description: “Greycoat machine-sprayed baked acrylic finish” (sales to Gliksten Hardwoods Ltd.), said by Cape Universal Claddings Ltd., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 121
Asbestos Magazine, 1971, June 1971
- Sold from: “"Greycoat," a new evolvement in the painted-surface treatment of asbestos-cement, has been developed”, said by Cape Universal Building Products Ltd., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 202
- Use: “decorative, low-cost system of sheet cladding”, said by Cape Universal Building Products Ltd., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 202
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “painted surface treatment of asbestos cement” (as of 1971), p. 823
Kind of product
We list Greycoat (Cape Asbestos) with sprayed 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, Drywall Finishers, Plasterers, and Painters.
Sprayed insulation by other makers (26)
Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Armaspray (Armstrong Cork) · SprayCraft (Smith & Kanzler) · Limpet (AC&S) · Pyrospray I,T & S (Keene) · Zonolite Mono-Kote Mk-1 (W. R. Grace) · Armaspray #16 (AC&S) · Armor Spray (Armstrong Cork) · Armospray 16 (Armstrong Cork) · Cafco-Asbestos (Cafco) · Fibrespray Asbestos (Acoustic) · Forty-Eight Spray Insulation (48 Insulations) · Limpet (Nicolet) · Mono-spray (Keene) · Monospray (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Pyrospray (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Pyrospray Type I (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Pyrospray Type S (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Pyrospray Type T (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Randustrial (Ranco Industrial Products) · and 6 more: all sprayed insulation
See also
- Cape Asbestos: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1978, August 1978 (August 1, 1978), p. 12.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1971, June 1971 (June 1, 1971), p. 20.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 82. Not yet published in our library.
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