Documents in our library describe High Temperature Flexible Min-k Blankets (Johns-Manville) as “blankets”.1 They give it as made 1963–1974.1 They put its asbestos content at 20%.1 The asbestos named is amosite. Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about High Temperature Flexible Min-k Blankets (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: 1963”, p. 1121
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: 1970”, p. 1121
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 621
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1974”, p. 1121
- Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): High Temperature Flexible Min-K Blankets” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 621
- Description: “High Temperature Flexible MIN-K Blankets - See Flexible MIN-K under SHEETS AND BLOCKS”, p. 781
- Asbestos content: “20.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1121
- Form: “Blankets”, p. 1121
- Asbestos fiber: “Amosite”, p. 1121
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Change: “Flexible MIN-K (High Temperature Std.) replaced by non-asbestos Flexible MIN-K (High Temperature Std.), 1973/77”, p. 172
- Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): High Temperature Flexible Min-K Blankets” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 222
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 222
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “blanket” (as of 1963-1974), p. 843
Kind of product
We list High Temperature Flexible Min-k Blankets (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 · D C Flexstone · Engineers Insulating Tape · Fibroid · Fire Felt · Flexstone Mineral Surface Cap Sheet · Gold-Line · High Strength Fibroid Asbestos Paper · J-m Built-up Roof · Johns-Manville Jm · Long Fiber Asbestos Paper · Microbestos · Min-klad · Niagarite · Niagrite · No. 50 · 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), p. 112.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 17.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 84. Not yet published in our library.
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