Documents in our library describe Besto-Tak (Johns-Manville) as “tape”.1 They give it as made 1959–1975.1 They put its asbestos content at 75% to 100%.1 The asbestos named is chrysotile. 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 Besto-Tak (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 Besto-Tak (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “pressure-sensitive-backed, asbestos tape” (as of 1961, 1976), p. 622
Kind of product
We list Besto-Tak (Johns-Manville) with cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Other cloth, tape and other textiles by Johns-Manville (73)
Min-k · Thermobestos pipe covering · Thermomat · Thermotape · Thermowrap · Asbestica Tape · Asbestos Cloth · Asbestos Listing · Asbestos Paper Tape · Asbestos Rope · Asbestos Tape · Asbestos Yarn · Blastape · Blastube · Ceilinite · Chempac · Chemtite · Colorbestos · Colorbestos Drapery · Commercial Grade Asbestos Cloth · and 53 more on the company's page
Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (228)
Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Insutape (Unarco) · Novatex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Atlas (Atlas Asbestos) · Azkem (Harco Chemical) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Battleship (Keasbey & Mattison) · BB (British Belting & Asbestos) · Beldam'S Pilot (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Bes-Var (Sun Chemical Co. (Electro-Technical Div.)) · Beswick (Atlas Asbestos) · Beswik (Atlas Asbestos) · Brapaco (Eureka Packing) · Brown Bag (Joneric Products) · Cablegard (Quin-T) · Caposite (Cape Asbestos Co. of London) · Carey (Philip Carey) · Carosel (U.S. Rubber) · and 208 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
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
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 107.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 62. Not yet published in our library.
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