Documents in our library describe High Temperature Insulation (Johns-Manville) as “block, pipe covering”.1 They give it as made 1924–1926.1 The asbestos named is chrysotile.
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What each document says
Every statement about High Temperature Insulation (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: 1924”, p. 1121
- Asbestos fiber: “Unknown (Probably Chrysotile)”, p. 1121
- Form: “Block, Pipe Covering”, p. 1121
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1121
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1926”, p. 1121
- Description: “Composed of a refractory material base of high insulating value combined with asbestos fiber and some carbonate of magnesia”, p. 701
Kind of product
We list High Temperature Insulation (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation, 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, Pipefitters and Plumbers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Johns-Manville (60)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestocel · 85 Magnesia · Thermobestos pipe covering · Equality · Eureka Covering · Express Covering · Fibrocel · Fine Corrugated Asbestocel · Fire Felt · Firetard · Indented · Johns-Manville Jm · Johns-Manville Transite Asbestos Wood · Magno · Marinite · Min-k 1301 · Min-k 2000 · Min-k 500 · 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) · Flexible Trainline (CertainTeed) · Flexible Trainline Pipe (CertainTeed) · Frostproof (Keene/Ehret) · Gaf Hylo (GAF) · Glasweld (United States Plywood) · Griptex (Combustion Engineering) · Grosscell (Philip Carey) · Hightemp #12 (Philip Carey) · Hightemp #15 (Philip Carey) · HT (Forty-Eight Insulations) · Hy Temp (Keasbey & Mattison) · Hy-temp (Nicolet) · Hylo (Eagle-Picher) · Imperial (GAF) · Imperial Pipe Covering (Ruberoid) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
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.
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