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Colorceran (Johns-Manville)

Documents in our library describe Colorceran (Johns-Manville) as “asbestos-cement sheets”.1 They give it as sold from 1960.1 They put its asbestos content at 40%.2 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 Colorceran (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 Colorceran (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.

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

  • Sold from: “first used in commerce 1960-09-28”, said by Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
  • Description: “Asbestos-Cement Sheets”, said by Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1

Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for COLORCERAN (1977)

  • Ingredient: “Silica approx. 20”, p. 12
  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile Asbestos Fiber”, p. 12
  • Asbestos content: “approx. 40”, p. 12

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

  • Made at: “Nashua Plant (1907 to 1985): Colorceran” (at Nashua) (the plant: Nashua, New Hampshire), p. 243
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 243

Kind of product

We list Colorceran (Johns-Manville) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

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

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

Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Asbestoside · C Asbestos Millboard · C Millboard · Carinsul · Cedargrain · Chemstone · Colorbestos · Colorchip · Colorlith · Colorlith Chalkboard · Colorsil · Corspan · Dekeran · Equality · Face Span · 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

See also

References

  1. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (November 29, 1960). Not yet published in our library.
  2. Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for COLORCERAN (October 27, 1977), p. 1.
  3. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 24.

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