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Dura-Color (GAF)

Documents in our library describe Dura-Color (GAF) as “asbestos cement siding”.1 They give it as sold from 1959.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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Asbestos claims

If you or a family member worked with or around Dura-Color (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 Dura-Color (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 1959-08-26”, said by RUBEROID CO., THE, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
  • Description: “ASBESTOS CEMENT SIDING”, said by RUBEROID CO., THE, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
  • Description: “asbestos-cement siding” (as of 1976), p. 732

Kind of product

We list Dura-Color (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.

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

Watcocell · Imperial · Air Cell · Color-tex · Panelstone · Sponge Felt · Eternit · Stratalite · American Thatch · Clipfast · Dura Shake · 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.) · Ct (Plus Other Notations) (Certain-Teed Products) · Dekeran (Johns-Manville) · Deluxe Stonewall (Ruberoid) · Detroc Board (M. H. Detrick) · Don'T Monkey With Cheap Roofs (Lone Star Roofing) · Du Shield (Flintkote) · Dualay (Keasbey & Mattison) · Duraform (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Duralite (Asbestos Corp. of America) · Ebonized Asbestos (Ambler Asbestos) · Ebonized Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Economy 250 (National Gypsum) · Equality (Johns-Manville) · Eternit (Ruberoid) · Eternit Asbestos Shingles (American Insulation Co.) · 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) (October 8, 1959). Not yet published in our library.
  2. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 73. Not yet published in our library.

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“Dura-Color (GAF).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/gaf-dura-color.

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