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Color-tex (GAF)

Documents in our library describe Color-tex (GAF) as “asbestos-cement building materials-namely, siding, sheets, panels, shingles and boards”.1 They give it as sold from 1952.1,2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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Pictures

How Color-tex (GAF) looked: labels, photographs and catalog pages from our library. Each picture has its own page and library number, so it can be cited on its own.

Asbestos claims

If you or a family member worked with or around Color-tex (GAF) and later developed mesothelioma or another asbestos disease, a claim may be paid by the G-I Holdings (GAF) asbestos trust. Free case review.

What each document says

Every statement about Color-tex (GAF) in the documents, in each document's own words.

USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)

  • Sold from: “first used in commerce 1952-10-12”, said by GAF CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
  • Description: “ASBESTOS-CEMENT BUILDING MATERIALS-NAMELY, SIDING, SHEETS, PANELS, SHINGLES AND BOARDS”, said by GAF CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1

Package label: Old American Asbestos-Cement Color-Tex Siding (The Ruberoid Company), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: September 9, 1952”, said by The Ruberoid Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
  • Asbestos content: “ASBESTOS-CEMENT”, p. 12

Label: Color-Tex asbestos-cement flat sheets (GAF Corporation), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: October 12, 1952”, said by GAF Corporation, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file3
  • Asbestos content: “ASBESTOS-CEMENT FLAT SHEETS WITH A DURABLE ACRYLIC FINISH ON A FINE TEXTURED SURFACE”, p. 13
  • Description: “asbestos-cement siding” (as of 1969), p. 694
  • Asbestos content: “ASBESTOS-CEMENT FLAT SHEETS WITH A DURABLE ACRYLIC FINISH ON A FINE TEXTURED SURFACE”, p. 15

Kind of product

We list Color-tex (GAF) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers, Roofers.

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

Watcocell · Imperial · Air Cell · 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.) · China-Glaze (United States Gypsum) · Chrom-Tex (Keasbey & Mattison) · Chroma-Tex (Asbestone) · Chroma-Tone (National Gypsum) · Classic (Gold Bond Building Products (National Gypsum)) · Classic-Shake (National Gypsum) · Color Ground (Ruberoid) · Color-Tex (Ruberoid) · Colorator (Ruberoid) · Colorbestos (Johns-Manville) · Colorceran (Johns-Manville) · Colorchip (Johns-Manville) · Colorlith (Johns-Manville) · Colorlith Chalkboard (Johns-Manville) · Colorsil (Johns-Manville) · 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. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (September 25, 1970). Not yet published in our library.
  2. Package label: Old American Asbestos-Cement Color-Tex Siding (The Ruberoid Company), Image.
  3. Label: Color-Tex asbestos-cement flat sheets (GAF Corporation), Image.
  4. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 69. Not yet published in our library.
  5. Advertisement: COLOR-TEX (GAF), p. 1.

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