Documents in our library describe Panelstone (GAF) as “asbestos-cement board”.1 They give it as sold from 1952.1,2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
How Panelstone (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.
Label: Asbestos Panelstone (Ruberoid)Label or package · ACL Doc 14999
Data sheet: PANELSTONE (GAF Corporation)Data sheet or specification · ACL Doc 15245
Label: Ruberoid Asbestos Panelstone (The Ruberoid Company)Label or package · ACL Doc 20548
Asbestos claims
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What each document says
Every statement about Panelstone (GAF) in the documents, in each document's own words.
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
Label: Ruberoid Asbestos Panelstone (The Ruberoid Company), Image
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos-cement board” (as of 1971), p. 983
Data sheet: PANELSTONE (GAF Corporation)
- Asbestos content: “ASBESTOS-CEMENT FLAT SHEETS”, p. 14
Kind of product
We list Panelstone (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 · 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.) · Nordeskafilt (Nordesk A Moskinfilt Aktiebologet) · Norriscell (Nicolet) · Nortex (Nicolet) · Novabestos Electricl (Irvington) · Nu Side (Nu Side) · Nu-Grain (Keasbey & Mattison) · Pallite (Johns-Manville) · Pare-Soleil (Atlas Asbestos) · Permaboard (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Permatone (Johns-Manville) · Permatone S (Johns-Manville) · Permatone “S” Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Plasti-Clad (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Plasticrylic (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Plia-F-Lex (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · 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
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (January 31, 1952). Not yet published in our library.
- Label: Ruberoid Asbestos Panelstone (The Ruberoid Company), Image.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 98. Not yet published in our library.
- Data sheet: PANELSTONE (GAF Corporation), p. 1.
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