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Pabco Prasco (Fibreboard)

Documents in our library describe Pabco Prasco (Fibreboard) as “block and pipe covering”.1 It was rated for temperatures up to 1900 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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Asbestos claims

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What each document says

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

Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)

  • Description: “Calcined diatomaceous silicate blended with other insulating materials and bonded with asbestos fiber. Rigid.”, p. 791
  • Temperature limit: “Atmos to 1900”, p. 791
  • Form: “Block and Pipe Covering”, p. 791
  • Asbestos content: “bonded with asbestos fiber”, p. 791
  • Description: “Pabco Prasco (listed, product not given)”, p. 972

Kind of product

We list Pabco Prasco (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 · Pabco · Caltherm · Pabco Super Caltemp · Pyrocal · Caltemp Cement · Pabco Caltemp · 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. Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 79.
  2. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 97. Not yet published in our library.

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