Documents in our library describe Thermobestos Cement (Johns-Manville) as “cement”.1 They give it as made from 1959.2 They put its asbestos content at 7% to 14.3%.2 The asbestos named is chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Asbestos claims
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What each document says
Every statement about Thermobestos Cement (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “cement” (as of 1931-1969), p. 1171
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Waukegan Plant products included: ... Thermobestos Cement” (at Waukegan), p. 283
Kind of product
We list Thermobestos Cement (Johns-Manville) with insulating cement and coatings, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Boilermakers.
Other insulating cement and coatings by Johns-Manville (51)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestile · 85 Magnesia · 302 · Mx-3808 Asb Filler · Mx-3808 Asbestos Filler · Navy 450 Cement · No. 302 Insulation Cement · Superex Cement · Superex Cement for Navy · Superex-m · Thermomix 700 · Thermomix 720 · Thermomix 770 · Thermomix 810 · 0352 Cement · 300 Cement · 301 · 301 Cement · and 31 more on the company's page
Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (273)
Prasco (Fibreboard) · Calsilite (GAF) · Caltemp (Fibreboard) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Super 66 (Eagle-Picher) · Temp-Sure I-c 250 (Insul-Coustic) · Tempcheck (Philip Carey) · Thermalcoat (M. H. Detrick) · Thermalite (Keene) · Thermalite 85% Magnesia (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Thermalkote (Flintkote) · Thermasil (Keene) · Thermokote (Ryden Industries) · Trica-mag (Crown Cork & Seal) · Trowel and Spray Grade (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Turnall (Atlas Asbestos) · Type 19 (Crown Cork & Seal) · Type 7 (Flintkote) · Type M (Crown Cork & Seal) · Unicote (North American Refractories) · and 253 more: all insulating cement and coatings
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
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 117. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (January 1, 1989), p. 122.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (January 1, 1990), p. 28.
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