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Asbestoment (Johns-Manville)

Documents in our library describe Asbestoment (Johns-Manville) as “cement”.1 They give it as made 1923–1970.1,2 They put its asbestos content at 6%.2 The asbestos named is chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Asbestoment (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.

The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)

  • Made from: “30”, p. 31
  • Made until: “70”, p. 31
  • Form: “CEMENT”, p. 31

Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)

  • Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1923”, p. 1012
  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1012
  • Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1012
  • Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1970”, p. 1012
  • Form: “Cement”, p. 1012
  • Description: “A refractory powder which when mixed with water produces an outer coating on the fireproofing of electrical cables; usually used with NIAGRITE”, p. 822
  • Asbestos content: “6.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1012

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

  • Sold from: “first used in commerce 1911”, said by JOHNS-MANVILLE CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office3
  • Description: “REFRACTORY ELECTRICAL INSULATING AND FIREPROOFING MATERIAL IN POWDER FORM FOR COVERING ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS”, said by JOHNS-MANVILLE CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office3

Label: "S" Asbestoment cable fireproofing, 100 lb. (Johns-Manville), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: 1911”, said by Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file4
  • Asbestos content: “ASBESTOMENT”, p. 14
  • Description: “cement” (as of 1930–1970), p. 575

Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)

  • Made at: “Waukegan Plant (1922 to 1985): Asbestoment” (at Waukegan) (the plant: Waukegan, Illinois), p. 276
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 256
  • Made at: “Pittsburgh Plant (1926 to 1980s): Asbestoment Type "S"” (at Pittsburgh) (the plant: Pittsburg, California), p. 256

Kind of product

We list Asbestoment (Johns-Manville) with insulating cement and coatings, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Boilermakers, Electricians and Electrical Workers, Roofers.

Other insulating cement and coatings by Johns-Manville (51)

Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestile · 85 Magnesia · 302 · 450 · 450 Cement · 500 · 500 Cement · 678 Semi-refractory · 678 Semi-Refractory Cement · 85% Magnesia Cement · Asbestos Fire Felt · Fibrofil · Fibrous Adhesive · Fil-insul · Fireite · Firetite Furnace Cement · Heat Treating Cement · Insulkote ET · 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) · Asbeskin (Truscon Laboratories) · Asbestex (Old Quaker Paint) · Asbestfalt (Metropolitan Greenhouse) · Asbestibel (Gold Bond Building Products (National Gypsum)) · Asbestite (Belknap-Moran-Allen Co.) · Asbestocote (Asbesto Corp. of America) · Asbestolite M-44 (Monroe) · Asbestone (Johns-Manville) · Asbestone (National Gypsum) · Asbestoseal (Arthur's Company) · Asphalt Emulsion (Coopers Creek) · Asphalt Emulsion (Pittsburgh Chemical) · Asphalt Emulsion, Chemical Dispersion Type (Eagle-Picher) · Barret E22056 (Celotex) · Barret Roof (Celotex) · and 253 more: all insulating cement and coatings

See also

References

  1. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 3.
  2. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 101.
  3. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (February 11, 1948). Not yet published in our library.
  4. Label: "S" Asbestoment cable fireproofing, 100 lb. (Johns-Manville), Image.
  5. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 57. Not yet published in our library.
  6. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 27.

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