Documents in our library describe Chemtite (Johns-Manville) as “new pipe made of asbestos reinforced plastic, used in the chemical industrial field”.1 They give it as sold from 1961.2 It was rated for temperatures up to 300 °F.3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Chemtite (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
J-M News Pictorial, 1962, March 1962
- Description: “new pipe made of asbestos reinforced plastic, used in the chemical industrial field”, p. 21
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
Asbestos Magazine, 1966, March 1966
- Temperature limit: “highly corrosive service at temperatures from minus 50°F. to plus 300°F.”, said by Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 153
Asbestos Magazine, 1965, March 1965
- Description: “Chemtite valve bodies fabricated from asbestos-reinforced epoxy or phenolic resin” (sales to Hills-McCanna), said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 164
Asbestos Magazine, 1967, May 1967
- Binder: “aromatic amine-cured epoxy, phenolic or Bisphenol A polyester resin”, said by Canadian Johns-Manville Co., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 205
- Use: “handling corrosive compounds at Texas Gulf Sulphur Company's concentrator, Hoyle, Canada” (sales to Texas Gulf Sulphur Company), said by Canadian Johns-Manville Co., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 205
- Asbestos fiber: “blue asbestos fibre formed into asbestos sheets”, said by Canadian Johns-Manville Co., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 205
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos-reinforced pipe” (as of 1963), p. 676
Kind of product
We list Chemtite (Johns-Manville) with cloth, tape and other textiles and asbestos-reinforced plastics, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Electricians and Electrical Workers.
Other cloth, tape and other textiles by Johns-Manville (73)
Min-k · Thermobestos pipe covering · Thermomat · Thermotape · Thermowrap · Asbestos Tape · Asbestos Yarn · Besto-Tak · Blastape · Blastube · Ceilinite · Chempac · Colorbestos · Colorbestos Drapery · Commercial Grade Asbestos Cloth · Commercial Grade Asbestos Tape · Commercial Grade Asbestos Tubing · Duplex Rod and Plunger Packing · Jewett · Johns-Manville Jm · 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) · Brapaco (Eureka Packing) · Brown Bag (Joneric Products) · Cablegard (Quin-T) · Caposite (Cape Asbestos Co. of London) · Carey (Philip Carey) · Carosel (U.S. Rubber) · Celoron (Continental Diamond Fibre) · Chevron Asbestos Roof Coating (Standard Oil of California) · Clarex-lageeze (Claremont Industries) · Cleangard (H. K. Porter) · Coldfinger (Scandura) · Coronado Line (O.K.I. Supply) · Covergard (H. K. Porter) · Covergard (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Dilecto (Continental Diamond Fibre) · and 208 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
Other asbestos-reinforced plastics by Johns-Manville (6)
Asbestos-reinforced plastics by other makers (34)
Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermasil (Keene) · Durestos (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Caposite (Cape Asbestos Co. of London) · Duraform (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Weldwood (U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers) · Yankee (Beacon Sales Company) · Aboglas (Navtar) · Asbestite (Burndy) · Asbestohm (Dossert) · Bakelite (Union Carbide) · Celoron (Continental Diamond Fibre) · Copalam (Cottrel Paper Co. Inc. (Fall River, MA)) · Diall 51-01 (Cannon Electric) · Dilecto (Continental Diamond Fibre) · Dura-Color (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Ferrobestos (J. W. Roberts Ltd (Turner & Newall)) · Fiberloy (Rogers) · Fosterite Asbestos (Westinghouse) · Homart (Sears) · and 14 more: all asbestos-reinforced plastics
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
- J-M News Pictorial, 1962, March 1962 (March 1, 1962), p. 2.
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (March 23, 1961). Not yet published in our library.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1966, March 1966 (March 1, 1966), p. 15.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1965, March 1965 (March 1, 1965), p. 16.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1967, May 1967 (May 1, 1967), p. 20.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 67. Not yet published in our library.
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