Documents in our library describe Superex 2000 (Johns-Manville) as “block”.1 They give it as made 1971–1972.1,2 They put its asbestos content at 9% to 12%.2,3 The asbestos named is amosite and chrysotile. It was rated for temperatures up to 2000 °F.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Superex 2000 (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1971”, p. 1212
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: 1971”, p. 1212
- Change: “with asbestos removed by 1973”, p. 712
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile and/or Amosite”, p. 1212
- Asbestos content: “9.0 - 12.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1212
- Form: “Sheet/Block”, p. 1212
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1972 - Asbestos content”, p. 1212
- Temperature limit: “for service up to 2000 degrees F”, p. 712
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile and/or Amosite”, p. 1212
Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for SUPEREX 2000
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Change: “SUPEREX-2000 replaced by non-asbestos SUPEREX-2000AF, 1972”, p. 174
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing (thermal insulation product)”, p. 174
- Made at: “Waukegan Plant (1922 to 1985): Superex 2000 Block” (at Waukegan) (the plant: Waukegan, Illinois), p. 284
Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for SUPEREX 2000 (1982)
- Ingredient: “Calcium silicate 85”, p. 15
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “block” (as of 1971-1972), p. 1146
Kind of product
We list Superex 2000 (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation and asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, 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 · Perfection Pipe Covering · Ring-Tite · Safety Blow-Off Covering · Silicated Thermobestos · Sonite · Standard Sectional Covering · Super Fire Felt · Superex-1900 · Superex-m · Superex-sg · Therm-o-bestos · Thermo Fire Felt · Thermowrap · Train Pipe Covering · Vitribestos · 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) · 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) · Thermalite (Keene) · Thermalite 85% Magnesia (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Thermalite 85% Magnesia (Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co.) · Thermasil (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Thermasil (Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co.) · 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 · Ring-Tite · Rock Shake · Rockspan Clapboard · Salem · Submarine Bulkhead · Super Fire Felt · Super Temp-Tite · Superex-1900 · Superex-m · Superex-sg · Temp-Tite · Therm-o-bestos · Thermo Fire Felt · Thermomat · Thermowrap · 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
- The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 8.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), pp. 71, 121.
- Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for SUPEREX 2000, p. 1.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 17.
- Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for SUPEREX 2000 (February 15, 1982), p. 1.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 114. Not yet published in our library.
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