Documents in our library describe Super Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) as “sheet/block, paper, felt, blanket”.1 They give it as made 1925–1971.1 They put its asbestos content at 40% to 60%.1 The asbestos named is amosite and chrysotile. It was rated for temperatures up to 1000 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Super Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1925”, p. 1211
- Description: “A lighter weight variation of Asbestos FIRE FELT”, p. 711
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 631
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1971 - 1975”, p. 1211
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile and/or Amosite”, p. 1211
- Form: “Sheet/Block, Paper, Felt, Blanket”, p. 1211
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile and/or Amosite”, p. 1211
- Temperature limit: “temperature limit of 700 degrees or 1000 degrees F, depending on construction”, p. 711
- Asbestos content: “40.0 - 60.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1211
- Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Super Fire Felt” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 631
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “felt” (as of 1925-1949), p. 1142
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Super Fire Felt” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 233
- Made at: “Waukegan Plant (1922 to 1985): Super Fire Felt” (at Waukegan) (the plant: Waukegan, Illinois), p. 283
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 233
Kind of product
We list Super Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation, asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet and paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe its form. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers, Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Johns-Manville (60)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestocel · 85 Magnesia · Thermobestos pipe covering · National Sectional Covering · Perfection Pipe Covering · Ring-Tite · Safety Blow-Off Covering · Silicated Thermobestos · Sonite · Standard Sectional Covering · Superex 2000 · Superex-1900 · Superex-m · Superex-sg · Therm-o-bestos · Thermo Fire Felt · Thermowrap · Train Pipe Covering · 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) · 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) · Tempcheck (Philip Carey) · Therm-O-Flake (Illinois Clay Products) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Rentone · Ridge Roll · Ring-Tite · Rock Shake · Rockspan Clapboard · Salem · Submarine Bulkhead · Super Temp-Tite · Superex 2000 · Superex-1900 · Superex-m · Superex-sg · Temp-Tite · Therm-o-bestos · Thermo Fire Felt · 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) · Stoneglow (GAF) · Stonewall (Ruberoid) · Stonewall Board (GAF) · Stratalite (GAF) · Stri-Color (Flintkote) · Stride (Supradur) · Strytex (Keasbey & Mattison) · Supertab (Ruberoid) · Supra Slates (Supradur) · Supra-Crylic (Supradur) · Supra-Tones (Supradur) · Supradur (Supradur) · Suprawall (Supradur) · Suramic (Supradur) · Sussex 32 (National Gypsum) · 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
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), pp. 71, 121.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 114. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 23.
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