Documents in our library describe Cellamite (Johns-Manville) as “felt”.1 They give it as made 1939–1959.1 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 Cellamite (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
Asbestos Magazine, 1943, March 1943
- Description: “thermal insulation in the form of cellular blocks, panels, and shapes of asbestos paper”, said by Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), "Trade Marks" column, p. 392
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “pipe covering” (as of 1953), p. 663
Kind of product
We list Cellamite (Johns-Manville) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Other paper, felt and millboard by Johns-Manville (89)
Min-k · Doublex · Thermomat · Firetard · Vitribestos · Asbestos Roll Fire Felt · Asbestos Sponge Felt · Asbestos Sponge Hair Felt · Asbestos Turbine Blanket · Asbestos Welding Paper · Blue Chip Asbestos Finishing Felt · Ceilinite · Centurian Base Felt · Coated Asbestos Base Felt · Cold Application Felt · Commercial Grade Asbestos Paper · Copperclad · D C Flexstone · Engineers Insulating Tape · Fibroid · 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) · Buca Adhesive (Bird & Son) · Cafco-Asbestos (Cafco) · Carey (Philip Carey) · Carey Duct (Philip Carey) · Carey Foil (Celotex) · Carocel (Philip Carey) · Cel-lux (Nicolet) · Cellotone (Nicolet) · Cleangard (H. K. Porter) · Cohrlastic (Connecticut Hard Rubber) · Commercial Grade (Ruberoid) · Commercial Paper (Nicolet) · Commercial Paper (Ruberoid) · Connectite (GAF) · Corlon, Aprina (Armstrong Cork) · 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
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 108.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1943, March 1943 (March 1, 1943), p. 39.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 66. Not yet published in our library.
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