Documents in our library describe Flexite (Johns-Manville) as “sheet material made from portland cement and asbestos fibres adapted for use as wallboards and construction of casings for dry ovens, furnaces and the like”.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Flexite (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1939, March 1939
- Description: “sheet material made from Portland Cement and Asbestos Fibres adapted for use as wallboards and construction of casings for dry ovens, furnaces and the like”, said by Johns-Manville Corp., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), "Trade Marks" column, p. 411
Kind of product
We list Flexite (Johns-Manville) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Dekeran · Equality · Face Span · Facespan · Fine Corrugated Asbestocel · Fire Felt · Flat Transite · Heat Treated Molted Metal Marinite · Homestead · Imperial Marinite · Korduct · Magno · Marimet 45 · Marine Acoustical Unit · Marine Veneer · 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) · 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) · Frycor (Owens-Corning) · Fyrbestos (Keene/Beh) · 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
- Asbestos Magazine, 1939, March 1939 (March 1, 1939), p. 41.
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