Documents in our library describe Asbestos Welding Paper (Johns-Manville) as “asbestos paper (welder's grade)”.1 They give it as made 1930–1980.2 They put its asbestos content at 99%.2 The asbestos named is chrysotile. It was rated for temperatures up to 1000 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Asbestos Welding Paper (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1930”, p. 1272
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: 1970”, p. 1272
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1272
- Form: “listed under PAPER, FELT, BLANKETS”, p. 792
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: Approximately 1980”, p. 1272
- Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Asbestos Welding Paper” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 622
- Form: “Paper”, p. 1272
- Asbestos content: “99.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1272
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 622
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “paper, felt, blankets” (as of 1930), p. 1253
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Asbestos Welding Paper” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 224
- Made at: “Waukegan Plant (1922 to 1985): Asbestos Welding Paper” (at Waukegan) (the plant: Waukegan, Illinois), p. 274
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 224
Kind of product
We list Asbestos Welding Paper (Johns-Manville) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Welders.
Other paper, felt and millboard by Johns-Manville (89)
Min-k · Doublex · Thermomat · Firetard · Vitribestos · Asbestos Locomotive Lagging · Asbestos Paper Tape · Asbestos Pipe Blanket · Asbestos Roll Fire Felt · Asbestos Sponge Felt · Asbestos Sponge Hair Felt · Asbestos Turbine Blanket · Blue Chip Asbestos Finishing Felt · Ceilinite · Cellamite · Centurian Base Felt · Coated Asbestos Base Felt · Cold Application Felt · Commercial Grade Asbestos Paper · Copperclad · and 69 more on the company's page
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (210)
Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Asbestos Felt Jacket, Asphalt Saturated (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Grapevine Finish Felt (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Paper (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Paper Tape (Keasbey & Mattison) · Asbestos Paper Tape (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Paper Tape (Ruberoid) · Asbestos Sponge Felt (Ruberoid) · Asbestoseal (Celotex) · Asbestoseal (Philip Carey) · Aspaal M (Asahi Asbestos) · Aspaal M (Jujo Paper Mfg. Co. of Tokyo, Japan) · Aspaal W (Asahi Asbestos) · Asphalt Saturated Asbestos Felt (Flintkote) · Atco (American Tar) · Azkem (Harco Chemical) · and 190 more: all paper, felt and millboard
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
- Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 95.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 127.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 125. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 22.
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