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Air Cell (GAF)

Air Cell was a corrugated asbestos paper insulation of The Ruberoid Co., whose products GAF later reported on.1,2 In its 1989 report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, filed for itself and Ruberoid, and in the EPA's 1990 notice publishing it, GAF said Air Cell was made from 1928 to approximately 1958.1,2 It was built up in layers: flat asbestos paper stuck to corrugated asbestos paper with silicate of soda.1 The corrugations had a characteristic "Roman Arch" shape; as of 1938 there were 28 to a foot, and each ply was a quarter inch thick.1

GAF said Air Cell came in three standard thicknesses, 2-ply, 3-ply and 4-ply, and was sold as pipe covering, sheets and blocks.1,2 The pipe covering was often finished with a canvas, cloth or pyroxylin jacket applied with an adhesive.2 GAF gave its temperature limit as 250° to 350°F.1,2

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Celasbestos

GAF also said that before 1935, Air Cell "may have been sold only under the name 'Celasbestos,'" which came in 5, 6, 7 and 8-ply versions as well as 1 to 4-ply.1,2 A January 1931 Ruberoid ad in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, lists Celasbestos Brand sectional pipe coverings and lagging blocks in its line of asbestos building products.3 The ad itself does not use the name Air Cell, and the same list includes Watcocel Brand, an early name of Ruberoid's other corrugated asbestos paper product.3

Related: Watcocell.

Asbestos claims

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What each document says

Every statement about Air Cell (GAF) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)

  • Made from: “manufactured from 1928”, said by GAF Building Materials Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 81
  • Made until: “to approximately 1958”, said by GAF Building Materials Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 81
  • Description: “Prior to 1935, air cell may have been sold only under the name "Celasbestos," available in 5, 6, 7 and 8-ply as well as 1-4 ply”, said by GAF Building Materials Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 81
  • Description: “"Roman Arch" corrugations; as of 1938, 28 corrugations per lineal foot; each ply 1/4" thick” (as of 1938), said by GAF Building Materials Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 81
  • Binder: “flat asbestos paper adhered to corrugated asbestos paper with silicate of soda”, said by GAF Building Materials Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 81
  • Description: “Air Cell was a corrugated asbestos paper product”, said by GAF Building Materials Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 81
  • Temperature limit: “a temperature limit of 250° to 350 °F”, said by GAF Building Materials Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 81
  • Form: “pipe covering, sheets and blocks; 2-ply, 3-ply and 4-ply”, said by GAF Building Materials Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 81

GAF Asbestos Information Act Submission (1989)

  • Made from: “manufactured from 1928”, p. 272
  • Form: “pipe covering, sheets and blocks; 2-ply, 3-ply and 4-ply; canvas, cloth or pyroxiline jacket”, p. 272
  • Made until: “to approximately 1958”, p. 272
  • Temperature limit: “a temperature limit of 250 degrees - 350 degrees F”, p. 272
  • Description: “Prior to 1935, air cell may have been sold only under the name "Celasbestos"”, p. 272

Asbestos Magazine, 1931, January 1931

  • Sold from: “Celasbestos Brand offered by The Ruberoid Co. (January 1931)”, p. 623
  • Form: “Celasbestos Brand sectional pipe coverings and lagging blocks”, p. 623

Kind of product

We list Air Cell (GAF) with pipe covering and block insulation, asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet and cloth, tape and other textiles, 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, Carpenters and Construction Workers.

Other pipe covering and block insulation by GAF (6)

Calsilite · Watcocell · Imperial · Calsilite-Hi · Calsilite Insulation Cement · Gaf Hylo

Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (270)

Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Keasbey & Mattison) · 85 Magnesia (Philip Carey) · 85% Magnesia (Armstrong Cork) · 85% Magnesia (Eagle-Picher) · 85% Magnesia (Pabco Products) · Acoa (Asbestos Corp. of America) · Air Cell (Mundet Cork) · Air-Cell (Johns-Manville) · Aircel (Nicolet) · Aircel (Philip Carey) · Aircell (Atlas Turner) · Aircell (Crown Cork & Seal) · Aircell (Gaf/Ruberoid) · Aircell (Keasbey & Mattison) · and 250 more: all pipe covering and block insulation

Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by GAF (19)

Watcocell · Imperial · Color-tex · Panelstone · Sponge Felt · Eternit · Stratalite · American Thatch · Clipfast · Dura Shake · Dura-Color · Duracolor · Duroc · Dutch Lap · Eternit Stonewall · Panelbestos · Stoneglow · Stonewall Board · Vanguard

Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (364)

Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Accopac Ad-8024 (Armstrong Cork) · Ace Corspan (Johns-Manville) · Acousteel (Celotex) · Acousti-celotex (Celotex) · Agedroc (Atlas Asbestos) · Agedroc AO (Atlas Asbestos) · Agedroc MS (Atlas Asbestos) · Air Cell (Mundet Cork) · Air-Cell (Johns-Manville) · Air-Duct (Keasbey & Mattison) · Aircel (Philip Carey) · Aircell (Keasbey & Mattison) · Aircell (Nicolet) · Allstate (Sears) · Alumco (American Lumber Company) · and 344 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

See also

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

References

  1. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 8.
  2. GAF Asbestos Information Act Submission (October 6, 1989), p. 27.
  3. Asbestos Magazine, 1931, January 1931 (January 1, 1931), p. 62.

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