Super Finish (Combustion Engineering)

Super Finish was an insulating finish cement made by R & I Refractory and Insulation Corporation and listed under Combustion Engineering.^1,2 In sworn answers given in a lawsuit in February 1968, Combustion Engineering, Inc. and R & I together described it as an insulating finish cement "comprised of asbestos, wool, Portland cement and clay, packaged in 40 pound bags."³ Combustion Engineering's own answers in two other lawsuits, in December 1969 and March 1970, describe it in the same words.^1,4

The sworn answers give different start dates: the 1968 answers list Super Finish among the insulating materials R & I had made "from the year 1959 to the present time."³ Combustion Engineering's answers of December 1969 and March 1970 say R & I made these materials "beginning prior to the year 1940," and still made them; the 1970 answers add that R & I was by then operating as the C-E Refractory Division of Combustion Engineering.^1,4 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives Super Finish cement under Combustion Engineering as made from 1963 to 1972, with 10-15 in the column read as percent asbestos.² The list names it a second time, as a cement, without years.²

Related: Stic-Tite.

Asbestos claims

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What each document says

Every statement about Super Finish (Combustion Engineering) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Kind of product

We list Super Finish (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.

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

1. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories (March 30, 1970), pp. 4–5.
2. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 8.
3. The Tomplait v. Combustion Engineering Case File (1962-1969), Response to plaintiff's interrogatories (February 14, 1968), pp. 3–4.
4. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories under Rule 33 (December 23, 1969), pp. 4–5.
5. Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981 (July 1, 1981), p. 25.