Documents in our library describe High Strength Fibroid Asbestos Paper (Johns-Manville) as “paper”.1 They give it as made 1930–1980.1 They put its asbestos content at 85.7% to 88%.1 The asbestos named is chrysotile. It was rated for temperatures up to 600 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Asbestos claims
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What each document says
Every statement about High Strength Fibroid Asbestos Paper (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: 1930”, p. 1121
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: 1970”, p. 1121
- Temperature limit: “can be used for service up to 600 degrees F”, p. 791
- Asbestos content: “85.7 - 88.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1121
- Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): High Strength Fibroid Asbestos Paper” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 621
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: Approximately 1980”, p. 1121
- Description: “High Strength FIBROID Asbestos Paper - See FIBROID Asbestos Paper”, p. 791
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1121
- Form: “Paper”, p. 1121
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 621
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos paper” (as of 1930), p. 832
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 223
- Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): High Strength Fibroid Asbestos Paper” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 223
Kind of product
We list High Strength Fibroid Asbestos Paper (Johns-Manville) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Other paper, felt and millboard by Johns-Manville (89)
Min-k · Doublex · Thermomat · Firetard · Vitribestos · Copperclad · D C Flexstone · Engineers Insulating Tape · Fibroid · Fire Felt · Flexstone Mineral Surface Cap Sheet · Gold-Line · High Temperature Flexible Min-k Blankets · J-m Built-up Roof · Johns-Manville Jm · Long Fiber Asbestos Paper · Microbestos · Min-klad · Niagarite · Niagrite · and 69 more on the company's page
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (210)
Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Fyrex (Grant Wilson) · Gaftemp Roof Insulation (GAF) · Galbestos (H.H. Robertson) · Glas-Bes (Sun Chemical) · Grosscell (Philip Carey) · Gum-Bestos Asbestos Paper Tape (Grant Wilson) · Herco (John Herman) · Homart (Sears) · Houservice (O'Neill Lumber Co.) · Hydrocord (Armstrong Cork) · Insubestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Insul-attic (Nicolet) · K & M 101 (Keasbey & Mattison) · K & M 104 (Keasbey & Mattison) · K & M 201 (Keasbey & Mattison) · and 190 more: all paper, felt and millboard
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. 79, 112.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 83. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 22.
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