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Pabco (Fibreboard)

Pabco was a Fibreboard name.1,2 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, lists it with the type "trade name," made from 1928 to 1966, with 15 in the column read as percent asbestos.1

The Navy's qualified products list carried Pabco for years.2 Its December 1951 edition lists PABCO, Grade I, Classes a and b, under Pabco Products, Inc. of San Francisco, with its plant at Emeryville, California.2 By February 1960 the listing was under Fibreboard Paper Products Corp., Pabco Industrial Insulation Division, and the May 1969 edition still listed Pabco, Grade I, Class b, under Fibreboard Corp.'s Pabco Industrial Products Division, plant at Emeryville.2

Related: Caltemp.

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Asbestos claims

If you or a family member worked with or around Pabco (Fibreboard) and later developed mesothelioma or another asbestos disease, a claim may be paid by the Owens Corning/Fibreboard asbestos trust (Fibreboard subfund). Free case review.

What each document says

Every statement about Pabco (Fibreboard) in the documents, in each document's own words.

The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)

  • Made from: “28”, p. 71
  • Made until: “66”, p. 71
  • Asbestos content: “15”, p. 71
  • Form: “TRADE NAME”, p. 71

Military Qualified Products List (1951–1995)

  • Made at: “Plant: Emeryville 8, Calif.” (as of 1951-12-03) (the plant: Emeryville, California), p. 12
  • Description: “qualified under QPL-2781 as PABCO, Grade I, Classes a, b (QPL-2781-1)” (as of 1951-12-03), p. 12
  • Description: “qualified under QPL-2781 as Pabco, Grade I, Class b, listed under Fibreboard Paper Products Corp., Pabco Industrial Insulation Division (QPL-2781-23)” (as of 1960-02-25), p. 662
  • Description: “qualified under QPL-2781 as Pabco, Grade I, Class b (QPL-2781-36)” (as of 1969-05-27), p. 1052

Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981

  • Made from: “28”, p. 233
  • Form: “PIPECOVER,BLOCK”, p. 233
  • Asbestos content: “15”, p. 233
  • Made until: “66”, p. 233

Kind of product

We list Pabco (Fibreboard) with pipe covering and block insulation, 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, Pipefitters and Plumbers.

Other pipe covering and block insulation by Fibreboard (13)

Prasco · Caltemp · 85 Magnesia · Precision-molded · Super Caltemp · Caltherm · Pabco Super Caltemp · Pyrocal · Caltemp Cement · Pabco Caltemp · Pabco Prasco · Precision Molded Pipe Covering · FI Cement

Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (263)

Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Nicolet (Norristown Magnesia & Asbestos Company) · No. 12 Insulation Block (Refractory & Insulation) · No. 19 (Refractory & Insulation) · No. 6 High Temperature Cement (Baldwin-Hill) · Non-sweat (Keasbey & Mattison) · Non-sweat (Nicolet) · Norwal (Nicolet) · Perfection Pipe Covering (Johns-Manville) · Pipecoverings (U.S. Gypsum) · Plisulate (Plibrico Jointless Firebrick) · Precision-molded (Ehret/Keene) · Precision-molded (Mundet Cork) · Precision-molded (Philip Carey) · PV Supertemp Block (Eagle-Picher) · Pyro-bestos (U.S. Gypsum) · and 243 more: all pipe covering and block insulation

See also

References

  1. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 7.
  2. Military Qualified Products List (1951–1995) (February 25, 1960), pp. 1, 66, 105.
  3. Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981 (July 1, 1981), p. 23.

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