Documents in our library describe Flexible Trainline Pipe (CertainTeed) as “pipe insulation (fiber glass with asbestos cloth backing—cloth backing manufactured by raybestos-manhattan)”.1 They give it as sold from 1945.2 It was rated for temperatures up to 300 °F.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Flexible Trainline Pipe (CertainTeed) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “pipe insulation (fiber glass with asbestos cloth backing—cloth backing manufactured by Raybestos-Manhattan)”, p. 781
CertainTeed's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Havenor v. W.D. Industries (2000)
- Sold from: “First placed on the market by Gustin-Bacon Manufacturing Company in 1945. First manufactured and sold by CertainTeed in 1966.”, p. 102
- Sold until: “Withdrawn from the market in 1970 due to lack of demand for the product.”, p. 102
- Use: “intended solely for use in insulating railroad passenger car steam lines” (sales to railroad companies), p. 102
- Ingredient: “nine-micron glass fiber blanket, resin bonded and adhered with adhesive to neoprene coated asbestos cloth”, p. 102
- Temperature limit: “the recommended temperature limit was 300°F”, p. 102
- Description: “G-B Flexible Pipe Insulation ... composed of Ultrolite glass fiber insulation pads securely cemented to waterproofed heavy asbestos cloth”, p. 522
Kind of product
We list Flexible Trainline Pipe (CertainTeed) with pipe covering and block insulation and cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by CertainTeed (1)
Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (275)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Fibrocel (Johns-Manville) · Fibrous Adhesive (General Refractories) · Fine Corrugated Asbestocel (Johns-Manville) · Finecell (Atlas Turner) · Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) · Fireguard Jacketing (Philip Carey) · Firetard (Johns-Manville) · Frostproof (Keene/Ehret) · Gaf Hylo (GAF) · Glasweld (United States Plywood) · Griptex (Combustion Engineering) · Grosscell (Philip Carey) · High Temperature Insulation (Johns-Manville) · Hightemp #12 (Philip Carey) · Hightemp #15 (Philip Carey) · and 255 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (301)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Emalfon (Singer Glove) · Etnatex (Duplan) · Filawound (Spaulding Fibre) · Flamegard (H. K. Porter) · Flamegard (Southern Asbestos) · Flamemaster (Atlas Textile) · Flamesafe (Singer Safety Products) · Flourobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Form Pack (Devcon) · Fortex (TBA Industrial Products) · Garco (General Asbestos & Rubber) · Gardian Line (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Gardwell #164 (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gardwell #174 (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gardwell #1744 (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
See also
- CertainTeed: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
References
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 78. Not yet published in our library.
- CertainTeed's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Havenor v. W.D. Industries (May 25, 2000), p. 10.
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“Flexible Trainline Pipe (CertainTeed).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/certainteed-flexible-trainline-pipe.
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