Documents in our library describe Colorchip (Johns-Manville) as “one of the j-m colorlith group of architectural panels; dense monolithic, integrally colored, fire, weather and wear resistant”.1 They give it as sold from 1959.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Colorchip (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1965, January 1965
- Description: “one of the J-M Colorlith group of architectural panels; dense monolithic, integrally colored, fire, weather and wear resistant”, said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 121
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 243
- Made at: “Nashua Plant (1907 to 1985): Colorchip” (at Nashua) (the plant: Nashua, New Hampshire), p. 243
Kind of product
We list Colorchip (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 · C Asbestos Millboard · C Millboard · Carinsul · Cedargrain · Chemstone · Colorbestos · Colorceran · Colorlith · Colorlith Chalkboard · Colorsil · Corspan · Dekeran · Equality · Face Span · Facespan · 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
- 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
- Asbestos Magazine, 1965, January 1965 (January 1, 1965), p. 12.
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (October 11, 1960). Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 24.
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