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Fibra-Flo (Johns-Manville)

Documents in our library describe Fibra-Flo (Johns-Manville) as “a combination of asbestos and diatomite, in a line of filter aids”.1 They give it as sold 1957–1977.1,2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Fibra-Flo (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1957, August 1957

  • Sold from: “has started marketing "Fibra-Flo"; first marketed in the brewing industry”, said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 661
  • Description: “a combination of asbestos and diatomite, in a line of filter aids”, said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 661

W. B. Reitze to H. B. Moreno on Visits to MEISA, Almeria and Asbestos de Mexico (1977)

  • Made at: “Almeria (Mexico) plant, Fibra-Flo blending operation” (as of June 1977), p. 42
  • Sold until: “understanding that we were discontinuing the manufacture and sale of Fibra-Flo in our foreign markets” (as of June 1977), p. 42

Asbestos Magazine, 1965, January 1965

  • Description: “Metate Asbestos Corporation's non acid washed and acid washed asbestos filter fiber, merchandised under the trade name "Johns-Manville Fibra-Flo"”, said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 223

Memo to File on Harter v. Johns-Manville and a Visit to the Lompoc Plant (1979)

  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing Fibra Flo” (as of 1975 forecast through 1979; at Lompoc), p. 64

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

  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 215
  • Made at: “Lompoc Plant (1928 to 1980s): Fibra-Flo” (at Lompoc) (the plant: Lompoc, California), p. 215

Kind of product

We list Fibra-Flo (Johns-Manville) with raw fiber and filler, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Other raw fiber and filler by Johns-Manville (8)

Plastibest · Asbaltic · Asbestos Fibers · Afd · Blue Mud · Celite · Chlorbestos · Fibra Flow

Raw fiber and filler by other makers (34)

Caposite (North American Asbestos) · Dicalite (maker not given) · Gold Bond Asbestos Fibers (National Gypsum) · Mimco (Mining & Milling Corp. of America) · Mother Lode (Pacific Asbestos) · Asbestos Fibers (Ruberoid) · Calidria RG 144 (Union Carbide) · Calidria RG 600 (Union Carbide) · Carded Crysotile (Unarco) · Carey 7 RF (Carey Canadian Mines) · Diabestos (Great Lakes Carbon) · Fiberspray Asbestos (Acoustic) · Havestos (Haveg) · Montasite (Mining & General Technicians) · Mother Lode (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Pavebestos (Carey Canadian Mines) · Pluto (North American Asbestos) · Portugese Asbestos (Powhattan Mining) · Powminco (Powhattan Mining) · Red Clover (Vermont Asbestos) · and 14 more: all raw fiber and filler

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1957, August 1957 (August 1, 1957), p. 66.
  2. W. B. Reitze to H. B. Moreno on Visits to MEISA, Almeria and Asbestos de Mexico (June 1, 1977), p. 4.
  3. Asbestos Magazine, 1965, January 1965 (January 1, 1965), p. 22.
  4. Memo to File on Harter v. Johns-Manville and a Visit to the Lompoc Plant (November 16, 1979), p. 6.
  5. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 21.

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