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Branchtite (Johns-Manville)

Branchtite was a Johns-Manville sealing compound.1 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives it as made from 1954 to 1981; 1981 is the list's own year, so it may still have been made then.1

A 1990 EPA notice that published what Manville reported names Branchtite in a group of putty-like sealing compounds, with Albaseal, Duxseal, Navaseal and others, and gives its figures only for the group as a whole.2 For that group it gives production from 1957 to 1977, a different start year from the insurer's list.2 It says the group's compounds contained 25 to 65% asbestos, with ingredients such as butane polymer, castor oil and chlorinated paraffin, and came as pugs packaged in fiberboard cartons.2

Related: Duxseal.

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What each document says

Every statement about Branchtite (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: “54”, p. 31
  • Made until: “81”, p. 31
  • Form: “SEALING COMPOUND”, p. 31

Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)

  • Made from: “produced 1957 to 1977”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
  • Made until: “produced 1957 to 1977”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos, 25 to 65%”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
  • Form: “Putty-like Sealing Compound ... Pugs-packaged in fiberboard cartons”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
  • Ingredient: “butane polymer, 0 to 40%; calcium carbonate, 0 to 20%; titanium dioxide, 0 to 5%; carbon black, 0 to 1%; castor oil, 0 to 40%; magnesium oxide, 0 to 1%; chlorinated paraffin, 0 to 55%; stearic acid, 0 to 1%”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142

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

  • Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1954”, p. 1073
  • Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Branchtite” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 623
  • Asbestos content: “50.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1073
  • Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1073
  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1073
  • Form: “Sealing Compound”, p. 1073
  • Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1974”, p. 1073
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 623
  • Use: “Sewer Pipe connections”, p. 803
  • Description: “sealing compounds” (as of 1954), p. 634

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

  • Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Branchtite” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 225
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 225

See also

References

  1. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 3.
  2. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 14.
  3. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 107.
  4. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 63. Not yet published in our library.
  5. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 22.

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