Documents in our library describe 319 Semi-Refractory Cement (Johns-Manville) as “cement”.1 They give it as made 1925–1969.2 They put its asbestos content at 20% to 21%.2 The asbestos named is chrysotile. It was rated for temperatures up to 1600 °F.3 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 319 Semi-Refractory Cement (Johns-Manville) and later developed mesothelioma or another asbestos disease, a claim may be paid by the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust. Free case review.
What each document says
Every statement about 319 Semi-Refractory Cement (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “cement” (as of 1930-1969), p. 1301
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
Kind of product
We list 319 Semi-Refractory Cement (Johns-Manville) with insulating cement and coatings, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Boilermakers.
Other insulating cement and coatings by Johns-Manville (51)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestile · 85 Magnesia · 302 · 0352 Cement · 300 Cement · 301 · 301 Cement · 302 Cement · 304 Cement · 319 Semi-refractory · 320 Cement · 329 Cement · 340 Cement · 352 · 352 Cement · 364 Cement · 400 Cement · 450 · and 31 more on the company's page
Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (273)
Prasco (Fibreboard) · Calsilite (GAF) · Caltemp (Fibreboard) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Super 66 (Eagle-Picher) · 214 (Gaf/Ruberoid) · 214 Insulating Cement (Ruberoid) · 2217 (H. P. Fuller) · 250 (Atlas Asbestos) · 303 (Philip Carey) · 303 Asbestos Cement (Philip Carey) · 313 (GAF) · 33 (Eagle-Picher) · 330 (Unarco) · 43 (Eagle-Picher) · 430 (Unarco) · 50 Finishing (Unarco) · 66 (Eagle-Picher) · 660 (Atlas Asbestos) · 660 (Owens-Corning) · and 253 more: all insulating cement and coatings
See also
- Johns-Manville: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Johns-Manville on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 130. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (January 1, 1989), p. 95.
- Johns-Manville Insulation in Industry (January 1, 1944), p. 10.
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