Documents in our library describe Heat Treating Cement (Johns-Manville) as “cement”.1 They give it as made 1954–1973.1 They put its asbestos content at 1%.1 The asbestos named is amosite and chrysotile. It was rated for temperatures up to 2500 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Heat Treating Cement (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: 1954”, p. 1121
- Asbestos content: “1.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1121
- Form: “Cement”, p. 1121
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile and/or Amosite”, p. 1121
- Description: “A ready-mixed refractory cement”, p. 821
- Temperature limit: “for temperatures up to 2500 degrees F”, p. 821
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile and/or Amosite”, p. 1121
- Use: “for use in the heat treating of high carbon steel parts”, p. 821
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1121
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1973”, p. 1121
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Zelienople Plant (1943 to 1973): Heat Treating Cement” (at Zelienople) (the plant: Zelienople, Pennsylvania), p. 282
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 282
Kind of product
We list Heat Treating Cement (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 · Asbestoment · Asbestos Fire Felt · Fibrofil · Fibrous Adhesive · Fil-insul · Fireite · Firetite Furnace Cement · Insulkote ET · Insulkote ST · Johns-Manville Jm · Laptite · Laptite Cement · Mx-3808 Asb Filler · Mx-3808 Asbestos Filler · Navy 450 Cement · 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) · Fuller Lagging (H. P. Fuller) · General Refractories (General Refractories) · Gold Bond Asbestos 7M-2 (National Gypsum) · Grade 115 Cement (Ruberoid) · Grade 214 Insulating Cement (Ruberoid) · H.W. (Harbison Walker) · Hard Top Finishing Cement (Kaiser Refractories) · Heat-seal (Keene/Beh) · Hi Glos (Forty-Eight Insulations) · Hi Therm (M. H. Detrick) · Hi-Spred No. 43-784 (Morningstar-Paisley) · Hi-stick (Eagle-Picher) · Hightemp #12 (Philip Carey) · Hilite (Combustion Engineering) · Hy Temp (Armstrong Cork) · and 253 more: all insulating cement and coatings
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), pp. 82, 112.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 28.
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