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Fibrous Adhesive (Johns-Manville)

Documents in our library describe Fibrous Adhesive (Johns-Manville) as “fabrication cement”.1 They give it as made 1887–1981.2 They put its asbestos content at 14% to 20%.2,3 The asbestos named is chrysotile. It was rated for temperatures up to 500 °F.1,2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

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

Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)

  • Asbestos content: “Sodium silicate with fibrous asbestos fillers.”, p. 1041
  • Description: “SODIUM SILICATE (With Fibrous Asbestos)”, p. 1041
  • Temperature limit: “60 to 500”, p. 1131
  • Temperature limit: “60 to 500”, p. 1041
  • Form: “Fabrication Cement”, p. 1131
  • Asbestos content: “Sodium silicate with fibrous asbestos fillers.”, p. 1131
  • Description: “SODIUM SILICATE (With Fibrous Asbestos)”, p. 1131
  • Form: “Adhesive”, p. 1041

Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)

  • Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1887”, p. 1112
  • Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1112
  • Temperature limit: “temperature limit 500 degrees F”, p. 822
  • Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1981 - Asbestos Content”, p. 1112
  • Use: “used for temporary bonding of insulation to brick, concrete, metal, or other surfaces as well as for bonding prefab fittings”, p. 822
  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1112
  • Asbestos content: “14.0 - 20.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1112
  • Description: “A strong silicate soda and asbestos fiber cement”, p. 822
  • Form: “Cement”, p. 1112

Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for Fibrous Adhesive (1981)

  • Asbestos content: “Approx. 15”, p. 13
  • Ingredient: “Vehicle: Sodium silicate 85”, p. 13
  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile asbestos fiber”, p. 13
  • Description: “cement” (as of 1930-1970), p. 764

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

  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 255
  • Made at: “Waukegan Plant (1922 to 1985): Fibrous Adhesive” (at Waukegan) (the plant: Waukegan, Illinois), p. 275
  • Made at: “Pittsburgh Plant (1926 to 1980s): Fibrous Adhesive” (at Pittsburgh) (the plant: Pittsburg, California), p. 255

Kind of product

We list Fibrous Adhesive (Johns-Manville) with insulating cement and coatings, 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, Boilermakers.

Other insulating cement and coatings by Johns-Manville (51)

Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestile · 85 Magnesia · 302 · 500 Cement · 678 Semi-refractory · 678 Semi-Refractory Cement · 85% Magnesia Cement · Asbestoment · Asbestos Fire Felt · Fibrofil · Fil-insul · Fireite · Firetite Furnace Cement · Heat Treating Cement · Insulkote ET · Insulkote ST · Johns-Manville Jm · Laptite · and 31 more on the company's page

Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (273)

Prasco (Fibreboard) · Calsilite (GAF) · Caltemp (Fibreboard) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Super 66 (Eagle-Picher) · FC II (Bigelow-Liptak) · Fenco (Owens-Corning) · FI (Fibreboard) · Fibercoat (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Fibre Emulsion (National Cork) · Fibrekote (Keene/Ehret) · Fibrous Adhesive (Celotex) · Fibrous Adhesive (Keasbey & Mattison) · Fibrous Adhesive (M. H. Detrick) · Fibrous Adhesive (Pabco) · Fibrous Adhesive (Philip Carey) · Fibrous Adhesive (Ruberoid) · Fireproofing (Eagle-Picher) · Fitch (Fitch Recuperator) · Flexigum Roof (Celotex) · and 253 more: all insulating cement and coatings

See also

References

  1. Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), pp. 104, 113.
  2. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), pp. 82, 111.
  3. Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for Fibrous Adhesive (July 27, 1981), p. 1.
  4. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 76. Not yet published in our library.
  5. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 25.

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