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Sonite (Johns-Manville)

Sonite was a Johns-Manville molded insulation. A 1990 EPA notice that published what Manville reported describes it as a "molded solid used for acoustical insulation," produced from 1969 to 1974.1 The notice gives its contents as asbestos fiber, 3 to 8%; colloidal silica, 85 to 95%; and phenol-formaldehyde resin, 3 to 8%.1

An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, lists Sonite as a block, made from 1969 to 1974.2

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Asbestos claims

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What each document says

Every statement about Sonite (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)

  • Made from: “produced 1969 to 1974”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 151
  • Made until: “produced 1969 to 1974”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 151
  • Description: “Molded solid used for acoustical insulation”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 151
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos fiber, 3 to 8%”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 151
  • Ingredient: “colloidal silica, 85 to 95%; phenol-formaldehyde resin, 3 to 8%”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 151

The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)

  • Made from: “69”, p. 82
  • Made until: “74”, p. 82
  • Form: “BLOCK”, p. 82

Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)

  • Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1969”, p. 1203
  • Warning label: “Date Labeled: 1970”, p. 1203
  • Description: “Made of MIN-K insulation”, p. 713
  • Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1975”, p. 1203
  • Asbestos fiber: “Amosite”, p. 1203
  • Asbestos content: “5.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1203
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 633
  • Use: “used by the U.S. Navy as an underwater sound insulation”, p. 713
  • Form: “Block”, p. 1203
  • Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Sonite” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 633

Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)

  • Change: “SONITE replaced by non-asbestos SONITE, 1973/74”, p. 184
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing (thermal insulation product)”, p. 184
  • Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Sonite” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 234
  • Description: “block” (as of 1969–1974), p. 1105

Kind of product

We list Sonite (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 2000 · Min-k 500 · National Sectional Covering · Perfection Pipe Covering · Ring-Tite · Safety Blow-Off Covering · Silicated Thermobestos · Standard Sectional Covering · Super Fire Felt · Superex 2000 · Superex-1900 · Superex-m · Superex-sg · Therm-o-bestos · Thermo Fire Felt · 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) · 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.) · Super Unibestos (Unarco) · Super-light (Philip Carey) · Super-Light 85% Magnesia (Philip Carey) · Temp-check (Philip Carey) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation

See also

References

  1. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 15.
  2. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 8.
  3. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 120.
  4. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 18.
  5. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 110. Not yet published in our library.

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