Documents in our library describe Block Stick (Combustion Engineering) as “adhesive”.1 They give it as made 1963–1972.2 They put its asbestos content at 22%.2 It was rated for temperatures up to 800 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Block Stick (Combustion Engineering) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)
- Form: “Adhesive”, p. 1041
- Asbestos content: “Sodium silicate with fibrous asbestos fillers.”, p. 1131
- Description: “SODIUM SILICATE (With Fibrous Asbestos)”, p. 1131
- Temperature limit: “60 to 800”, p. 1041
- Temperature limit: “60 to 800”, p. 1131
- Form: “Fabrication Cement”, p. 1131
- Asbestos content: “Sodium silicate with fibrous asbestos fillers.”, p. 1041
- Description: “SODIUM SILICATE (With Fibrous Asbestos)”, p. 1041
Kind of product
We list Block Stick (Combustion Engineering) 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 Combustion Engineering (28)
Castablock · Detrick Mhd · Duriseal · Mix A · Permiseal · Super Stic-tite · T-60 · Utility · Weatherkote · 7 Asbestos · A-1199 · Aircheck · Buck Stay · Calcrete 30 · Casing · Detrick · Detrick T-060 · Detrick Thinsuliner · Easy Seal · Hilite · and 8 more on the company's page
Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (296)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · Asphalt Emulsion (Coopers Creek) · Asphalt Emulsion (Pittsburgh Chemical) · Asphalt Emulsion, Chemical Dispersion Type (Eagle-Picher) · Barret E22056 (Celotex) · Barret Roof (Celotex) · Beh No. 1 Plus (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Black Plaster Finish (Bitucote) · Bondite (Keene/Beh) · Btu (Philip Carey) · Btu Cement (Philip Carey) · C-10 (Bigelow-Liptak) · C-13-A (Flintkote) · C-18 (Bigelow-Liptak) · C-19 (Flintkote) · Calsilite (GAF) · and 276 more: all insulating cement and coatings
See also
- Combustion Engineering: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Combustion Engineering on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), pp. 104, 113.
- The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 3.
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