Documents in our library describe Roofinsul (Johns-Manville) as “insulating felt known as johns-manville roofinsul, applied under standard asbestos built-up roofing”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Roofinsul (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Johns-Manville Service to Railroads (1923)
- Description: “insulating felt known as Johns-Manville Roofinsul, applied under Standard Asbestos Built-up Roofing”, p. 1321
Asbestos Magazine, 1968, March 1968
- Description: “J-M ROOFINSUL Roof Insulation (Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd., Port Credit, Ontario)” (as of 1968), said by Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 182
Johns-Manville Service to the Iron and Steel Industry (1930)
- Description: “Rigid Roofinsul is a strong, rigid insulating board, made of felted waterproofed wood fibres”, p. 1093
Asbestos Magazine, 1936, June 1936
- Use: “Rigid Roofinsul hot-mopped over a steel deck, Hiram Walker distillery, Peoria, Ill.” (sales to Hiram Walker plant, Peoria, Ill.), p. 44
Kind of product
We list Roofinsul (Johns-Manville) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Roofers.
Other paper, felt and millboard by Johns-Manville (89)
Min-k · Doublex · Thermomat · Firetard · Vitribestos · Pan-o-cel · Paperbestos · Quinorgo · Quinorogo 6000 · Quinorogoboard · Quinterra · Quintex (I, II, ST) · Salamander · Special Coated Asbestos Base Felt · Spintex · Standard Flex M-k · Standard Flexible Min-k blankets · Super Fire Felt · Telgard · Thermo Felt · and 69 more on the company's page
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (210)
Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · R/M Style 48-Rpd Pyrotex prepreg (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Range Boiler Jacket (GAF) · Resin Saturating (Celotex) · Resistal (Keasbey & Mattison) · Roll Felt (Nicolet) · Rollboard (GAF) · Roofing Felt (Celotex) · Ru-ber-oid Watson (Ruberoid) · Sal-Mo (Sall Mountain) · Scapa-Hall (Morey Paper & Mill Supply) · Servicised (Albert C. Fischer) · Shake Shield (Philip Carey) · Siluminite (Turners Asbestos Cement) · So Good That Only The Dealers Sell It (Lehon) · Sofilia (Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha) · and 190 more: all paper, felt and millboard
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
- Johns-Manville Service to Railroads (January 1, 1923), p. 132.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1968, March 1968 (March 1, 1968), p. 18.
- Johns-Manville Service to the Iron and Steel Industry (January 1, 1930), p. 109.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1936, June 1936 (June 1, 1936), p. 4.
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