Documents in our library describe Colorthin (Johns-Manville) as “board: calcium silicate binder with asbestos fiber reinforcement”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Colorthin (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “board: calcium silicate binder with asbestos fiber reinforcement” (as of 1962), p. 691
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 242
- Made at: “Nashua Plant (1907 to 1985): Colorthin” (at Nashua) (the plant: Nashua, New Hampshire), p. 242
Kind of product
We list Colorthin (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Johns-Manville (60)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestocel · 85 Magnesia · Thermobestos pipe covering · Asbestos Molded Blocks · Asbestos Moulded Sectional Covering · Asbestos Sectional Covering · Asbestos Sponge (Felted, Sectional, Molded) · Celite · Champion Sectional Covering · Cobra · Equality · Eureka Covering · Express Covering · Fibrocel · Fine Corrugated Asbestocel · Fire Felt · Firetard · High Temperature Insulation · and 40 more on the company's page
Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (216)
Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Kaylo (Owens-Illinois) · Unibestos (Pittsburg Corning) · Carey-temp (Celotex) · Careycel (Philip Carey) · Careytemp 2000 (Philip Carey) · Carocel (Philip Carey) · Castablock (Combustion Engineering) · Cell-O-Tone (Norristown Magnesia & Asbestos Company) · Celo-temp (Celotex) · CS (Riva & Mariani) · Custom Molded 85% Magnesia (Mundet Cork) · D.E. Block (Eagle-Picher) · Defendex (Philip Carey) · Detrick (Combustion Engineering) · Dri-mag (Crown Cork & Seal) · Dual Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Duplex (Armstrong Cork) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
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
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 69. 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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