Documents in our library describe Marine Acoustical Unit (Johns-Manville) as “board”.1 They give it as made 1941–1975.1 They put its asbestos content at 33%.1 The asbestos named is chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Marine Acoustical Unit (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: 1941”, p. 1151
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: 1970”, p. 1151
- Form: “Board”, p. 1151
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1975-78”, p. 1151
- Description: “Square sections of perforated Marine Veneer with attached elements of sound-absorbing material”, p. 751
- Use: “used for acoustical treatment in ship construction”, p. 751
- Asbestos content: “33.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1151
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1151
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos board” (as of 1961), p. 912
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Nashua Plant (1907 to 1985): Marine Acoustical Unit” (at Nashua) (the plant: Nashua, New Hampshire), p. 243
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 243
Kind of product
We list Marine Acoustical Unit (Johns-Manville) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Flexite · Heat Treated Molted Metal Marinite · Homestead · Imperial Marinite · Korduct · Magno · Marimet 45 · Marine Veneer · Marinite 23 · Marinite 30 · Marinite 36 · Marinite 45 · Marinite 65 · Marrakech · Metal Veneered Marinite · and 99 more on the company's page
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (264)
Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Unibestos (Pittsburg Corning) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Careycel (Philip Carey) · Kolormate (Nicolet) · Kon-x (Nicolet) · Linabestos (Asbestos Corp. of America) · Linabestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Linalbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Ludlite Paneling (Allegheny Ludlum Steel) · Magna-Tones (Supradur) · Marine Panel (Philip Carey) · Micro-Flexboard (J/Hns-Manville) · Mill Board (Ruberoid) · Miraweld (Kaiser Refractories) · Monobestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Monobestos (Nicolet) · Mule-Hide (Lehon) · Narro-Side (Supradur) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
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. 115.
- 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. 24.
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