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Long Fiber Asbestos Paper (Johns-Manville)

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
  • 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.

See also

References

  1. Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 94.
  2. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), pp. 79, 114.
  3. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 91. Not yet published in our library.
  4. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 22.

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