Documents in our library describe Long Fiber Asbestos Paper (Johns-Manville) as “asbestos paper (special long fiber)”.1 They give it as made 1930–1980.2 They put its asbestos content at 88% to 98.5%.2 The asbestos named is chrysotile. It was rated for temperatures up to 1200 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Long Fiber Asbestos Paper (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)
- Temperature limit: “0 to 1000”, p. 941
- Description: “Made with high grade long asbestos fiber. Minimum fiber content of 88% and maximum binder content of 5%. Thicknesses from .006 in. to .065 in., 36 in. roll widths.”, p. 941
- Asbestos content: “high grade long asbestos fiber”, p. 941
- Asbestos content: “Asbestos Paper”, p. 941
- Form: “Asbestos Paper (Special Long Fiber)”, p. 941
- Description: “High quality paper uniform throughout. Minimum fiber content of 88% and maximum binder content of 5%. Thicknesses from .006 in. to .065 in., 36 in. roll widths.”, p. 941
- Temperature limit: “0 to 1200”, p. 941
- Form: “Asbestos Paper (Long Fiber)”, p. 941
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1930”, p. 1142
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: 1970”, p. 1142
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: Approximately 1980”, p. 1142
- Use: “for use as a thermal insulation, gasketing, [illegible] sheet for saturating”, p. 792
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1142
- Asbestos content: “minimum fiber content 88%”, p. 792
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 612
- Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Long Fiber Asbestos Paper” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 612
- Asbestos content: “88.0 - 98.5 % fiber by weight”, p. 1142
- Form: “Paper”, p. 1142
- Description: “Made with high grade long asbestos fiber”, p. 792
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “paper, felt blankets” (as of 1930), p. 913
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Long Fiber Asbestos Paper” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 224
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 224
Kind of product
We list Long Fiber 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 · Fire Felt · Flexstone Mineral Surface Cap Sheet · Gold-Line · High Strength Fibroid Asbestos Paper · High Temperature Flexible Min-k Blankets · J-m Built-up Roof · Johns-Manville Jm · Microbestos · Min-klad · Niagarite · Niagrite · No. 50 · Non Burn Asbestos Paper · Non-burn Asb Paper · Nycinsul · 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) · K-board (Nicolet) · K-Mat (Hammermill Paper Co. (Strathmore Paper Co. Div.)) · Kalfelt (Atlas Asbestos) · Kreuznacher Asbest-Werke Germany Theo & Geo Seitz (Seitz-Asbest Werke, Theo & Geo Seitz) · Kreuznacher Filter-Undasbestwerke Germany.Theo & Geoseitz (Seitz-Asbest Werke, Theo & Geo Seitz) · Lasco (Lynch Asbestos) · Lily (Jujo Paper) · Micabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Micarta 8564 (Westinghouse) · Millboard (GAF) · Muffler (Celotex) · Mule-Hide (Lehon) · Neon (Nicolet) · Nicel (Nicolet) · No. 15 Fiberock (Philip Carey) · 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
- Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 94.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), pp. 79, 114.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 91. 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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