Documents in our library describe Colorsil (Johns-Manville) as “asbestos-cement window sills and copings”.1 They give it as sold from 1970.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Colorsil (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Colorsil” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 622
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 622
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Colorsil” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 223
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 223
Kind of product
We list Colorsil (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 · Cedargrain · Chemstone · Colorbestos · Colorceran · Colorchip · Colorlith · Colorlith Chalkboard · Corspan · Dekeran · Equality · Face Span · Facespan · Fine Corrugated Asbestocel · Fire Felt · Flat Transite · 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
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (July 6, 1970). Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 62.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 22.
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