Documents in our library describe Express Covering (Johns-Manville) as “pipe insulation”.1 They put its asbestos content at 59%.1 The asbestos named is chrysotile.
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What each document says
Every statement about Express Covering (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Form: “Pipe Insulation”, p. 1101
- Asbestos content: “up to 59.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1101
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1101
- Description: “Solid laminations of wool felt three-quarters of an inch thick with one layer of asbestos paper”, p. 731
Kind of product
We list Express Covering (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation, from how the documents describe its form. 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 Sponge (Felted, Sectional, Molded) · Celite · Champion Sectional Covering · Cobra · Colorthin · Equality · Eureka Covering · Fibrocel · Fine Corrugated Asbestocel · Fire Felt · Firetard · High Temperature Insulation · Indented · Johns-Manville Jm · Johns-Manville Transite Asbestos Wood · 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) · Durestos (maker not given) · Durocell (Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co.) · Enduro (Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co.) · Enduro (Keene) · Enduro Block (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Epitherm 1200 (Eagle-Picher) · Excel (Philip Carey) · Featherweight (Keasbey & Mattison) · FI Cement (Fibreboard) · Fibrous Adhesive (General Refractories) · Finecell (Atlas Turner) · Fireguard Jacketing (Philip Carey) · Flexible Trainline (CertainTeed) · Flexible Trainline Pipe (CertainTeed) · Frostproof (Keene/Ehret) · 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
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 110.
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