Documents in our library describe Marrakech (Johns-Manville) as “an embossed vinyl-asbestos flooring with a smooth, rich beauty of polished slate”.1 They give it as sold from 1967.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Marrakech (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1967, May 1967
- Sold from: “two additions to its growing line of high-style Vinylcraft flooring (May 1967)”, said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 121
- Description: “an embossed vinyl-asbestos flooring with a smooth, rich beauty of polished slate”, said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 121
Asbestos Magazine, 1969, December 1969
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “vinyl asbestos floor tile” (as of 1967), p. 923
Kind of product
We list Marrakech (Johns-Manville) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet and floor tile, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Flooring Installers, Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Marine Acoustical Unit · Marine Veneer · Marinite 23 · Marinite 30 · Marinite 36 · Marinite 45 · Marinite 65 · Metal Veneered Marinite · Min-k 1301 · Min-k 500 · Molten Metal Marinite · No. 100 Kearsarge Sheet · No. 60 Service Sheet · Pallite · Permatone · 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) · 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) · No. 1 Hard (Philip Carey) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
Other floor tile by Johns-Manville (13)
Floor tile by other makers (185)
Excelon (some styles) (Armstrong Cork) · Agate Chip (Kentile) · Debonair (Kentile) · Excelon (Armstrong Cork) · Au Naturel (Kentile) · Imperial Modern Excelon (Armstrong Cork) · Industro-Tile (Philip Carey) · Kensert (David E. Kennedy) · La Paz (J.C. Penney) · La Paz Pattern (J.C. Penney) · Marbleized (GAF) · Marbleized (Kentile) · Maticove (GAF) · Ming (GAF) · Mini Chip (GAF) · Modernaire (Congoleum) · Monticello (GAF) · Montrel Excelon (Armstrong Cork) · Moonstone (Kentile) · Mule-Hide (Lehon) · and 165 more: all floor tile
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
- Asbestos Magazine, 1967, May 1967 (May 1, 1967), p. 12.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1969, December 1969 (December 1, 1969), p. 38.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 92. Not yet published in our library.
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