Documents in our library describe Fine Corrugated Asbestocel (Johns-Manville) as “sheet/block, pipe insulation”.1 They give it as made 1923–1971.1 They put its asbestos content at 52.6% to 98%.1 The asbestos named is chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Fine Corrugated Asbestocel (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1923”, p. 1111
- Description: “Similar to ASBESTOCEL, except the corrugations are smaller; however, there are 50% more laminations per inch of thickness and the additional small enclosed air cells provide greater efficiency”, p. 731
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1971 - 1975”, p. 1111
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1111
- Asbestos content: “52.6 - 98.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1111
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 621
- Form: “Sheet/Block, Pipe Insulation”, p. 1111
- Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Fine Corrugated Asbestocel” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 621
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Fine Corrugated Asbestocel” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 222
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 222
- Made at: “Waukegan Plant (1922 to 1985): Fine Corrugated Asbestocel” (at Waukegan) (the plant: Waukegan, Illinois), p. 272
Kind of product
We list Fine Corrugated Asbestocel (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation and asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe its form. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers, Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Johns-Manville (60)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestocel · 85 Magnesia · Thermobestos pipe covering · Champion Sectional Covering · Cobra · Colorthin · Equality · Eureka Covering · Express Covering · Fibrocel · Fire Felt · Firetard · High Temperature Insulation · Indented · Johns-Manville Jm · Johns-Manville Transite Asbestos Wood · Magno · Marinite · 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) · 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) · Gaf Hylo (GAF) · Glasweld (United States Plywood) · Griptex (Combustion Engineering) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Colorlith Chalkboard · Colorsil · Corspan · Dekeran · Equality · Face Span · Facespan · Fire Felt · Flat Transite · Flexite · Heat Treated Molted Metal Marinite · Homestead · Imperial Marinite · Korduct · Magno · 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) · Eternit Stonewall (GAF) · Eternit Stonewall Siding (Eternit, Inc.) · Facad (United States Plywood) · Facade (Cape Universal Bldg. Products of Cape Asbestos Group) · Ferobestos (J. W. Roberts Ltd (Turner & Newall)) · Fiber-Shake (Supradur) · Fiber-Shake Sidewall Shingle (Supradur) · Fire-chex 325 (Philip Carey) · Firefoil (Philip Carey) · Flintite (Flintkote) · Flintite (Orangeburg) · Fluid-Tite (CertainTeed) · Fluid-Tite (Keasbey & Mattison) · Follansbee Terne (Follansbee Steel) · Formboard (Philip Carey) · 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
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 111.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 22.
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