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Thermalkote (Flintkote)

Documents in our library describe Thermalkote (Flintkote) as “weather barrier coating”.1 They give it as made 1940–1982.2,3 They put its asbestos content at 14% to 19%.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 Thermalkote (Flintkote) in the documents, in each document's own words.

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

  • Temperature limit: “-20 to 200”, p. 1261
  • Asbestos content: “Asphalt base clay emulsion and asbestos fibers. Filler content is varied to get desired temperature limits.”, p. 1261
  • Form: “Weather Barrier Coating”, p. 1261
  • Description: “ASPHALT EMULSION (Fibrated)”, p. 1261

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

  • Made at: “Late 1940's-1978 (ER, NO) Late 1940's-1981 (CH) Late 1940's-1982 (V)” (at NO) (the plant: New Orleans, Louisiana), p. 332
  • Made at: “Late 1940's-1978 (ER, NO) Late 1940's-1981 (CH) Late 1940's-1982 (V)” (at V) (the plant: Vernon, California), p. 332
  • Made at: “Late 1940's-1978 (ER, NO) Late 1940's-1981 (CH) Late 1940's-1982 (V)” (at CH) (the plant: Chicago Heights, Illinois), p. 332
  • Made from: “Late 1940's-1978 (ER, NO) Late 1940's-1981 (CH) Late 1940's-1982 (V)”, p. 332
  • Made at: “Late 1940's-1978 (ER, NO) Late 1940's-1981 (CH) Late 1940's-1982 (V)” (at ER) (the plant: East Rutherford, New Jersey), p. 332
  • Made until: “Late 1940's-1978 (ER, NO) Late 1940's-1981 (CH) Late 1940's-1982 (V)”, p. 332
  • Description: “Heavy trowel grade asphalt emulsion-weatherproof coating”, p. 332
  • Description: “Heavy binder for mixing with sand in field to make filler coat compound”, p. 302
  • Asbestos content: “14-19%”, p. 332

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

  • Made from: “64”, p. 83
  • Made until: “81”, p. 83
  • Form: “EMULSION”, p. 83
  • Description: “SOLD BY COMBUSTION ENG”, p. 83

Kind of product

We list Thermalkote (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.

Other insulating cement and coatings by Flintkote (8)

C-13-A · C-19 · Decoralt Coatings · Sanded Premix · Fr-100 · Fr-200 · Fr-300 · Type 7

Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (316)

Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · Swetcheck (Eagle-Picher) · T-60 (Combustion Engineering) · Temp-Sure I-c 250 (Insul-Coustic) · Tempcheck (Philip Carey) · Thermalcoat (M. H. Detrick) · Thermalite (Keene) · Thermalite 85% Magnesia (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Thermasil (Keene) · Thermobestos Cement (Johns-Manville) · Thermokote (Ryden Industries) · Thermomix 700 (Johns-Manville) · Thermomix 720 (Johns-Manville) · Thermomix 770 (Johns-Manville) · Thermomix 810 (Johns-Manville) · Trica-mag (Crown Cork & Seal) · and 296 more: all insulating cement and coatings

See also

References

  1. Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 126.
  2. Flintkote's Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories and Requests for Admission in the Eastern District of Texas (October 10, 1985), p. 33.
  3. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 8.

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