Nordseal was a Johns-Manville sealing compound.1,2 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives it as made from 1953 to 1981; 1981 was the list's own year, so the end date may mean it was still being made.1
A 1990 EPA notice that published what Manville reported gives different years, 1957 to 1977, but as one date range for a group of nine putty-like sealing compounds that includes Nordseal.2 The notice gives only figures for the whole group: asbestos, 25 to 65%, with butane polymer, castor oil, chlorinated paraffin, calcium carbonate and smaller amounts of other ingredients, packaged as pugs in fiberboard cartons.2
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What each document says
Every statement about Nordseal (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)
Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)
- Made from: “produced 1957 to 1977”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
- Made until: “produced 1957 to 1977”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
- Asbestos content: “asbestos, 25 to 65%”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
- Ingredient: “butane polymer, 0 to 40%; calcium carbonate, 0 to 20%; titanium dioxide, 0 to 5%; carbon black, 0 to 1%; castor oil, 0 to 40%; magnesium oxide, 0 to 1%; chlorinated paraffin, 0 to 55%; stearic acid, 0 to 1%”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
- Form: “Putty-like Sealing Compound ... Pugs-packaged in fiberboard cartons”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1947”, p. 1193
- Use: “Refrigeration equipment and general purpose”, p. 803
- Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Nodrseal” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 633
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 633
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1193
- Form: “Sealing Compound”, p. 1193
- Asbestos content: “50.0 - 59.4 % fiber by weight”, p. 1193
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1975”, p. 1193
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1193
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 234
- Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Nodrseal” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 234
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
- The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 7.
- Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 14.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 119.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 23.
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