Asphalt Saturated Asbestos Felt (Flintkote)

Documents in our library describe Asphalt Saturated Asbestos Felt (Flintkote) as “flintkote purchased the asbestos felt from other manufacturers and merely saturated it with asphalt in their own facilities.”.¹ They give it as made 1956–1976.¹ They put its asbestos content at 65%.¹

Asbestos claims

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What each document says

Every statement about Asphalt Saturated Asbestos Felt (Flintkote) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Flintkote's Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories and Requests for Admission in the Eastern District of Texas

• Made from: “Approx. 1956-1976”, p. 35¹
• Made until: “Approx. 1956-1976”, p. 35¹
• Description: “Flintkote purchased the asbestos felt from other manufacturers and merely saturated it with asphalt in their own facilities.”, p. 35¹
• Asbestos content: “65%”, p. 35¹
• Description: “Manufactured by others but sold by Flintkote: Asphalt Saturated Asbestos Felt (Built-up Roofing), period of sale Intermittently from approx. 1941-1982, 65%”, p. 35¹

Kind of product

We list Asphalt Saturated Asbestos Felt (Flintkote) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Roofers.

Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (299)

Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Asbestos Turbine Blanket (Johns-Manville) · Asbestos Welding Paper (Johns-Manville) · Asbestoseal (Celotex) · Asbestoseal (Philip Carey) · Aspaal M (Asahi Asbestos) · Aspaal M (Jujo Paper Mfg. Co. of Tokyo, Japan) · Aspaal W (Asahi Asbestos) · Atco (American Tar) · Azkem (Harco Chemical) · Barrett Series 400 (Celotex) · Base Sheet (Philip Carey) · Best Felt (Armstrong Cork) · Bird Metal Gravel Stops Type Gs-2 (Bird & Son) · Black Top Asbestos (Philip Carey) · Blue Chip Asbestos Finishing Felt (Johns-Manville) · and 279 more: all paper, felt and millboard

See also

• Flintkote: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Flintkote on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources

References

1. Flintkote's Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories and Requests for Admission in the Eastern District of Texas (October 10, 1985), p. 35.