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Decoralt Coatings (Flintkote)

Documents in our library describe Decoralt Coatings (Flintkote) as “weather barrier coating”.1 They give it as made 1950–1978.2 They put its asbestos content at 4.5% to 6%.2 It was rated for temperatures up to 200 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Decoralt Coatings (Flintkote) in the documents, in each document's own words.

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

  • Form: “Weather Barrier Coating”, p. 1281
  • Description: “ACRYLIC EMULSION”, p. 1281
  • Asbestos content: “Heavy bodied acrylic resin emulsion pigmented and reinforced with mineral fillers and asbestos fibers. Available in a wide color range.”, p. 1281
  • Temperature limit: “-30 to 200”, p. 1281

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

  • Made from: “Late 1950's to 1978”, p. 292
  • Asbestos content: “4.5-6.0%”, p. 292
  • Made until: “Late 1950's to 1978”, p. 292
  • Use: “surfacing tennis courts”, p. 292
  • Description: “These are pigment and filled latex coatings used primarily for surfacing tennis courts”, p. 292

Kind of product

We list Decoralt Coatings (Flintkote) 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.

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References

  1. Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 128.
  2. Flintkote's Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories and Requests for Admission in the Eastern District of Texas (October 10, 1985), p. 29.

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