Documents in our library describe Marinite (Johns-Manville) as “board, insulation”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Marinite (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “board, insulation” (as of 1953), p. 921
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Warning label: “caution label on sheets of Marinite discussed about July 1958; no caution labels adopted then”, p. 292
- Description: “A composition of asbestos fiber, diatomaceous silica and lime formed with calcium silicate sheets which have structural strength, fire resistance, and insulating value”, p. 752
- Use: “used as fire-safe wall partitions in ship construction and as a fireproof base for wood veneers; also used to construct industrial ovens and other insulating enclosures, for handling molten metals”, p. 752
- Asbestos content: “A composition of asbestos fiber, diatomaceous silica and lime”, p. 752
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 203
- Made at: “Billerica Plant (1940 to 1985): Marinite” (at Billerica) (the plant: Billerica, Massachusetts), p. 203
Kind of product
We list Marinite (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation, from how the documents describe it. 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 · Fire Felt · Firetard · High Temperature Insulation · Indented · Johns-Manville Jm · Johns-Manville Transite Asbestos Wood · Magno · Min-k 1301 · Min-k 2000 · Min-k 500 · National Sectional Covering · Perfection Pipe Covering · Ring-Tite · Safety Blow-Off Covering · Silicated Thermobestos · 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) · Lasco (Lynch Asbestos) · Lennolite (Philip Carey) · LK (AC&S) · LK (Armstrong Cork) · Lk-20 (Armstrong Cork) · LT (Armstrong Cork) · MA (Riva & Mariani) · Mono-block (Keene) · Monoblock (maker not given) · Multi-Ply (Philip Carey) · Multicell (Nicolet) · Mundet (Mundet Cork) · National (U.S. Gypsum) · National Anti-sweat (U.S. Gypsum) · National Neverfreeze (U.S. Gypsum) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
See also
- Marinite in the Lexicon
- Marinite and the SS Morro Castle Disaster exposure and claims
- 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
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 92. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 29.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 20.
Mentioned on this site
- A. Pocius to D. B. Wingerter on Silica Caution Labels for Insulating Products (1967)
- C. L. Sheckler to D. B. Wingerter on Caution Labels for Sil-O-Cel and Marinite Insulation Products (1968)
- C. L. Sheckler to D. B. Wingerter on Wording Warning Labels for Industrial Insulations Products (1969)
- D. B. Wingerter to J. F. Mell on Rubber-Stamping the Marinite Caution Label (1970)
- Dr. George W. Wright to H. Moreno on Amosite in Marinite and Conditions at Billerica (1973)
- Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to D. E. Van Farowe of the Michigan Department of Health on Marinite (1959)
- E. M. Fenner to D. B. Wingerter on Which Insulation Products to Label (1969)
- H. M. Jackson to the Los Angeles Division of Occupational Health on Marinite, Colorlith, Asbestocite and Transite (1960)
- H. M. Jackson to William J. Reeves of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company on Marinite (1960)
- J. S. Parkinson to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on No Caution Labels for J-Spray Bags (1960)
- Jackson v. Armstrong Cork, Summary Exhibits of Exposure Documents (1982)
- Johns-Manville Caution Labels for Marinite Products (About 1964)
- Johns-Manville Correspondence on Describing Marinite to the American Medical Association (1948)
- Johns-Manville Memos on a Caution Label for Marinite (1958)
- M. W. Burleson's Notice to the Industrial Insulations Division on Health Hazard Caution Labels (1970)
- M. W. Burleson to A. Pocius on Warning Labels for Marinite (1969)
- P. F. Coggins Telex on Hopeman Brothers and the Marinite Caution Labels (1970)
- P. F. Coggins to R. H. North on a Small Caution Label for Marine Marinite (1968)
- R. R. Standel Jr. to D. B. Wingerter Rejecting the Short-Form Marinite Caution Label (1969)
- R. W. Dobson to C. P. Weber on Health Hazard Labels for Marinite and Other Sheet Products (1969)
- The Motley 1000
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