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Super Caltemp (Fibreboard)

Super Caltemp was a precision-molded pipe covering, block and cement made by Fibreboard Corporation.1,2 In sworn answers in a 1969 lawsuit, Fibreboard said Caltemp was manufactured from 1950 to 1968 "and Super Caltemp from 1968 to the present," and that both "contain Hydrous Calcium Silicate with less than 15% Asbestos."1 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives Super Caltemp pipe covering and block as made from 1968 to 1971, with 5 in the column read as percent asbestos.2

The Navy's August 1972 list of products qualified under Military Specification MIL-I-2781 for thermal pipe insulation included "Pabco Super Caltemp Type 1200 NA," made by Fibreboard's Pabco Industrial Products Division at Emeryville, California.3

The name stayed on the Navy's lists after Fibreboard: the February 1981 list gives Pabco Super Caltemp Type 1200 NA under the Pabco Industrial Division of Louisiana-Pacific Corp., with a plant at Ruston, Louisiana, and the February 2000 list gives "Pabco Super Caltemp Gold" from Mesa Insulation, a Johns Manville company, of Fruita, Colorado.3 These later listings say nothing about asbestos.3

Earlier product: Caltemp.

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What each document says

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

The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories

  • Warning label: “Since 1966 containers of our products have had the following warning labels”, p. 81
  • Made from: “Super Caltemp from 1968 to the present”, p. 21
  • Asbestos content: “Hydrous Calcium Silicate with less than 15% Asbestos”, p. 21
  • Form: “(Precision Molded) Pipe Covering, Block, Cement”, p. 21
  • Ingredient: “Hydrous Calcium Silicate”, p. 21
  • Description: “Precision Molded with a hard rind surface which is relatively dust free”, p. 161

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

  • Made from: “68”, p. 82
  • Asbestos content: “5”, p. 82
  • Form: “PIPECOVER,BLOCK”, p. 82
  • Made until: “71”, p. 82

Military Qualified Products List (1951–1995)

  • Made at: “Pabco Super Caltemp Type 1200 NA; Fibreboard Corp., Pabco Industrial Products Div.; Plant: Emeryville, CA” (as of 1972-08; at Emeryville, CA) (the plant: Emeryville, California), p. 1083
  • Use: “qualified under Military Specification MIL-I-2781, Insulation, Pipe, Thermal” (as of 1972-08), p. 1083
  • Made at: “Pabco Super Caltemp Type 1200 NA; Pabco Industrial Div., Louisiana-Pacific Corp.; Plant: Ruston, LA” (as of 1981-02; at Ruston, LA) (the plant: Ruston, Louisiana), p. 1393
  • Made at: “Pabco Super Caltemp Gold; Mesa Insulation, A Johns Manville Company; Fruita, CO; Plant: Same address” (as of 2000-02; at Fruita, CO) (the plant: Fruita, Colorado), p. 1643
  • Description: “qualified under QPL-2781 as Pabco Super Caltemp Type 1200 NA (Grade I Class b; Grade II Class d; Grade III Class e Types I and II)” (as of 1 August 1972), p. 1083
  • Made at: “Plant: Ruston, LA” (as of 24 September 1974) (the plant: Ruston, Louisiana), p. 1203
  • Made at: “Plant: 1110-16 Road Fruita, CO 81521” (as of 12 October 1978) (the plant: Fruita, Colorado), p. 1333
  • Description: “qualified under QPL-2781 as Pabco Super Caltemp Type 1200 NA, maker listed as Pabco Industrial Div., Louisiana-Pacific Corp.” (as of 4 May 1979), p. 1353
  • Made at: “Plant: Lincoln Parrish Parrish Road 336 Grambling, LA 71245” (as of 9 February 1984) (the plant: Grambling, Louisiana), p. 1423
  • Description: “qualified under QPL-2781 as Pabco Super Caltemp Type 1200 NA” (as of 6 October 1986), p. 1463
  • Description: “qualified under QPL-2781 as Pabco Super Caltemp, maker listed as Pabco Div., Fibreboard Corp.” (as of 13 April 1989), p. 1483
  • Description: “qualified under QPL-2781 as Pabco Super Caltemp” (as of 13 October 1995), p. 1603

Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)

  • Made from: “manufactured from the late 1960's”, said by Fibreboard Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 74
  • Made until: “until 1971”, said by Fibreboard Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 74
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos material decreasing from about 12% to 3½%”, said by Fibreboard Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 74
  • Change: “calcium silicate and other non-asbestos material increasing from about 88% to 96½%, and asbestos material decreasing from about 12% to 3½%”, said by Fibreboard Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 74
  • Form: “a block, pipe-covering, and cement thermal insulation”, said by Fibreboard Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 74

The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories

  • Warning label: “This product contains asbestos fibers. If dust is created when this product is handled, avoid breathing the dust. If adequate ventilation control is not possible, wear respirator approved by U. S. Bureau of Mines.”, p. 85
  • Made from: “Super Caltemp from 1968 to the present”, p. 25
  • Asbestos content: “Hydrous Calcium Silicate with less than 15% Asbestos”, p. 25
  • Description: “Our Super Caltemp is Precision Molded with a hard rind surface which is relatively dust free”, p. 155
  • Use: “for the most part applied in the field as it is taken out of the shipping carton”, p. 155

The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Objections and answers to further interrogatories

  • Change: “"Super Caltemp Tyle 1200NA", asbestos-free; research from 1965; entire production converted to asbestos-free products September 15, 1971”, p. 26
  • Asbestos content: “high temperature heat insulation which does not contain asbestos: "Super Caltemp Tyle 1200NA"”, p. 26

Kind of product

We list Super Caltemp (Fibreboard) with pipe covering and block insulation and insulating cement and coatings, from how the documents describe its form. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers, Boilermakers.

Other pipe covering and block insulation by Fibreboard (13)

Prasco · Caltemp · 85 Magnesia · Precision-molded · Pabco · 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.) · Silicated Thermobestos (Johns-Manville) · Simplex (Atlas Turner) · Simplex (Nicolet) · Simplex Super Shrink (Keasbey & Mattison) · Sixcell (Nicolet) · Sonite (Johns-Manville) · Standard Sectional Covering (Johns-Manville) · Super Cell (Ruberoid) · Super Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) · Super Insutape (Unarco) · Super Insutape (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Super Unibestos (Unarco) · Super-light (Philip Carey) · Super-Light 85% Magnesia (Philip Carey) · Superex 2000 (Johns-Manville) · and 243 more: all pipe covering and block insulation

Other insulating cement and coatings by Fibreboard (8)

Prasco · Caltemp · 85 Magnesia · 127 · FI · 85% Magnesia Cement · Fibrous Adhesive (Pabco) · No. 127

Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (316)

Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Calsilite (GAF) · Stic-tite (Combustion Engineering) · Stirup (Combustion Engineering) · Super 48 (48 Insulations) · Super 48 (Forty-Eight Insulations) · Super 606 (Philip Carey) · Super 66 (Eagle-Picher) · Super 711 (Combustion Engineering) · Super Finish (Combustion Engineering) · Super Powerhouse (Keene) · Super Stic-tite (Combustion Engineering) · Super-light (Philip Carey) · Super-Light Cement (Philip Carey) · Superex Cement (Johns-Manville) · Superex Cement for Navy (Johns-Manville) · Superex-m (Johns-Manville) · and 296 more: all insulating cement and coatings

See also

References

  1. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories (December 1, 1969), pp. 2, 8.
  2. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 8.
  3. Military Qualified Products List (1951–1995) (August 1, 1972), pp. 108, 139, 164.
  4. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 7.
  5. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories (April 3, 1970), p. 8.
  6. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Objections and answers to further interrogatories (December 8, 1971), p. 2.

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