Documents in our library describe 85 Magnesia (Gaf/Ruberoid) as “pipecover,block,cement”.1 The list marks “85 Magnesia” as a generic term: a name several companies used for this kind of product, not one company's brand.1
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What each document says
Every statement about 85 Magnesia (Gaf/Ruberoid) in the documents, in each document's own words.
The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)
Kind of product
We list 85 Magnesia (Gaf/Ruberoid) with pipe covering and block insulation and insulating cement and coatings, 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, Boilermakers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Gaf/Ruberoid (1)
Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (275)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · 12 (Combustion Engineering) · 19 (Combustion Engineering) · 19 Hitemp (Philip Carey) · 66 (Eagle-Picher) · 7M (Crown Cork & Seal) · 85 Magnesia (Crown Cork & Seal) · 85 Magnesia (Fibreboard) · 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 (GAF) · and 255 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (321)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · 7M Short (National Gypsum) · 7M Short (Nicolet) · 7M Short Fiber (Mundet Cork) · 7M-90 (Celotex) · 81-27 and 81-93 (Benjamin Foster) · 85 Magnesia (Crown Cork & Seal) · 85 Magnesia (Fibreboard) · 85 Magnesia (Keasbey & Mattison) · 85 Magnesia (Philip Carey) · 85% Magnesia Cement (Fibreboard) · 85% Magnesia Cement (Johns-Manville) · 90-07 H.I. Mastic (Benjamin Foster) · 99 (Eagle-Picher) · 99 Finishing Cement (Eagle-Picher) · A-1 (Philip Carey) · and 301 more: all insulating cement and coatings
See also
- 85% Magnesia in the Lexicon
References
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