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Colorbestos (Johns-Manville)

Documents in our library describe Colorbestos (Johns-Manville) as “a new johns-manville siding material for exteriors, combines for the first time both color and pattern into a large size asbestos-cement sheet. the sheet is 32 inches wide by 96 inches high.”.1 They give it as made until 1976.2 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 Colorbestos (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 Colorbestos (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1952, June 1952

  • Description: “a new Johns-Manville siding material for exteriors, combines for the first time both color and pattern into a large size asbestos-cement sheet. The sheet is 32 inches wide by 96 inches high.”, said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 201
  • Made at: “the product is being made only at Manville Plant” (as of June 1952), said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 201

Asbestos Magazine, 1977, July 1977

  • Made until: “the asbestos-cement roofings previously manufactured and sold by J-M under the Colorbestos label”, said by Supradur Companies, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 402

Asbestos Magazine, 1950, March 1950

  • Ingredient: “combines asbestos yarns with a warp of cotton”, p. 103

USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)

  • Sold from: “first used in commerce 1952-05-06”, said by JOHNS-MANVILLE CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office4
  • Description: “DECORATIVE ASBESTOS SIDING SHEETS”, said by JOHNS-MANVILLE CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office4

Asbestos Magazine, 1960, February 1960

  • Made at: “Three years later, he went back to start production of Colorbestos sheets for this firm.”, said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 605

J-M News Pictorial, 1965, January–February 1965

  • Made at: “Kubota produces ... Colorbestos shingles and wallboards.”, p. 96

Dr. Kenneth Smith and the J-M Research Center on Free Silica in Finished Products (1958–1959), Research Center Report No. 400-T-13, May 6, 1959

  • Ingredient: “Transite Shingle ... Quartz 18%* 20%”, p. 47
  • Description: “drapery” (as of 1949-1951), p. 698
  • Description: “asbestos fabric, cement roof, siding, shingles” (as of 1975), p. 698

Kind of product

We list Colorbestos (Johns-Manville) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet and cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers, Roofers.

Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)

Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Asbestos Sponge (Felted, Sectional, Molded) · Asbestoside · C Asbestos Millboard · C Millboard · Carinsul · Cedargrain · Chemstone · Colorceran · Colorchip · Colorlith · Colorlith Chalkboard · Colorsil · Corspan · Dekeran · Equality · and 99 more on the company's page

Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (264)

Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Unibestos (Pittsburg Corning) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Careycel (Philip Carey) · Classic (Gold Bond Building Products (National Gypsum)) · Classic-Shake (National Gypsum) · Clipfast (GAF) · Color Ground (Ruberoid) · Color-tex (GAF) · Color-Tex (Ruberoid) · Colorator (Ruberoid) · Concord (U.S. Gypsum) · Country Club (Supradur) · Coverall Board (Philip Carey) · Ct (Plus Other Notations) (Certain-Teed Products) · Deluxe Stonewall (Ruberoid) · Detroc Board (M. H. Detrick) · Don'T Monkey With Cheap Roofs (Lone Star Roofing) · Du Shield (Flintkote) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

Other cloth, tape and other textiles by Johns-Manville (73)

Min-k · Thermobestos pipe covering · Thermomat · Thermotape · Thermowrap · Asbestos Yarn · Besto-Tak · Blastape · Blastube · Ceilinite · Chempac · Chemtite · Colorbestos Drapery · Commercial Grade Asbestos Cloth · Commercial Grade Asbestos Tape · Commercial Grade Asbestos Tubing · Duplex Rod and Plunger Packing · Jewett · Johns-Manville Jm · Kearsarge · 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) · 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) · Dura Sleeve (General Plastics) · Eleven-thirty-three (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Emalfon (Singer Glove) · Etnatex (Duplan) · and 208 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1952, June 1952 (June 1, 1952), p. 20.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1977, July 1977 (July 1, 1977), p. 40.
  3. Asbestos Magazine, 1950, March 1950 (March 1, 1950), p. 10.
  4. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (August 9, 1974). Not yet published in our library.
  5. Asbestos Magazine, 1960, February 1960 (February 1, 1960), p. 60.
  6. J-M News Pictorial, 1965, January–February 1965 (January 1, 1965), p. 9.
  7. Dr. Kenneth Smith and the J-M Research Center on Free Silica in Finished Products (1958–1959), Research Center Report No. 400-T-13, May 6, 1959 (May 6, 1959), p. 4.
  8. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 69. Not yet published in our library.

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