Documents in our library describe Silicated Thermobestos (Johns-Manville) as “block; pipe covering”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Silicated Thermobestos (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Manville Plant products included: ... Silicated Thermobestos Block / Silicated Thermobestos Pipe Covering” (at Manville Plant), p. 231
- Asbestos content: “listed among "asbestos containing products ... manufactured at each facility"” (at Manville Plant), p. 231
- Form: “Block; Pipe Covering”, p. 231
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “pipe” (as of 1966-1973), p. 1092
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made at: “asbestos-containing products ... manufactured at the Manville Plant: ... Silicated Thermobestos Block / Silicated Thermobestos Pipe Covering” (at Manville Plant), p. 633
Kind of product
We list Silicated Thermobestos (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation, from how the documents describe its form. 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 · Min-k 1301 · Min-k 2000 · Min-k 500 · National Sectional Covering · Perfection Pipe Covering · Ring-Tite · Safety Blow-Off Covering · Sonite · Standard Sectional Covering · Super Fire Felt · Superex 2000 · Superex-1900 · Superex-m · Superex-sg · Therm-o-bestos · 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) · Ru-ber-oid Watson (Ruberoid) · Rutland Repair Products Ricky Rutland (Rutland Fire Clay Co.) · Rwl-100 (H. K. Porter) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Sal-mo Sixcell (Nicolet) · Sal-mo Woolfelt (Nicolet) · Servicised (Albert C. Fischer) · Simplex (Atlas Turner) · Simplex (Nicolet) · Simplex Super Shrink (Keasbey & Mattison) · Sixcell (Nicolet) · Super Caltemp (Fibreboard) · Super Cell (Ruberoid) · Super Insutape (Unarco) · Super Insutape (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
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
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (January 1, 1990), p. 23.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 109. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (January 1, 1989), p. 63.
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