Documents in our library describe Rentone (Johns-Manville) as “asbestos cement panels”.1 They give it as sold from 1975.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Rentone (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Waukegan Plant (1922 to 1985): Rentone” (at Waukegan) (the plant: Waukegan, Illinois), p. 282
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 282
Kind of product
We list Rentone (Johns-Manville) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. 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 · No. 60 Service Sheet · Pallite · Permatone · Permatone S · Permatone “S” Flexboard · Quinterra 71 · Reeferite · Ridge Roll · Ring-Tite · Rock Shake · Rockspan Clapboard · Salem · Submarine Bulkhead · Super Fire Felt · Super Temp-Tite · 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) · Pps (National Gypsum) · Prenite Packing (B.F. Goodrich) · Promenade Tile (Keasbey & Mattison) · Pyro-bestos (U.S. Gypsum) · Pyroboard (Keene/Ehret) · Qasal (Champion International) · Ranch Style (National Gypsum) · Resistal (Keasbey & Mattison) · Resistal (Nicolet) · Ripple Tone (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Roctone (Tilo Roofing) · Roll Board (Philip Carey) · Roll Board (Ruberoid) · Rubestos (Ruberoid) · Ruco (maker not given) · 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
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (October 31, 1977). Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 28.
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