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Transite Core Plate (Johns-Manville)

Transite Core Plate was a Johns-Manville asbestos-cement board.1,2 In sworn answers in two lawsuits, in 1969 and 1970, J-M listed it among its asbestos cement sheets as a "smoothly sanded tray of asbestos and cement for holding cores during baking or drying."1,3

An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives Transite Core Plate, listed as board, as made from 1938 to 1981; 1981 was the list's own year, so the end date may mean it was still being made.2 A 1990 EPA notice that published what Manville reported gives 1938 to 1978, but as one date range for a group of asbestos-cement sheets and boards that includes Transite Core Plate, along with Marine Veneer, Pallite and Dekeran Transite Board.4

For that group the notice gives a single set of figures: asbestos fiber, 5 to 50%; portland cement, 40 to 45%; and silica, 25 to 30%.4

See also Pallite.

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Asbestos claims

If you or a family member worked with or around Transite Core Plate (Johns-Manville) and later developed mesothelioma or another asbestos disease, a claim may be paid by the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust. Free case review.

What each document says

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

The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories with exhibits

  • Description: “TRANSITE CORE PLATE. (Asbestos Cement Sheets) Smoothly sanded tray of asbestos and cement for holding cores during baking or drying.”, p. 301
  • Use: “for holding cores during baking or drying”, p. 301

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

  • Made from: “38”, p. 92
  • Form: “BOARD”, p. 92
  • Made until: “81”, p. 92

The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiff's interrogatories with exhibits

  • Description: “(Asbestos Cement Sheets) Smoothly sanded tray of asbestos and cement for holding cores during baking or drying”, p. 303

Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)

  • Made from: “produced 1938 to 1978”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 154
  • Made until: “produced 1938 to 1978”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 154
  • Ingredient: “portland cement, 40 to 45%; silica, 25 to 30%”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 154
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos fiber, 5 to 50%”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 154
  • Description: “asbestos- cement sheet or board”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 154

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

  • Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1938”, p. 1255
  • Warning label: “Date Labeled: 1970”, p. 1255
  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile and/or Amosite”, p. 1255
  • Use: “especially compounded to properly support cores during drying or baking; widely used in the manufacture of castings”, p. 765
  • Description: “Smoothly sanded, hydrothermally cured asbestos-cement board”, p. 765
  • Asbestos content: “52.0 - 71.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1255
  • Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1985”, p. 1255
  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile and/or Amosite”, p. 1255
  • Form: “Board”, p. 1255

Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for TRANSITE Core Plate (1982)

  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile Asbestos Fiber”, p. 16
  • Asbestos content: “approx. 55”, p. 16
  • Ingredient: “Portland Cement " 25”, p. 16
  • Ingredient: “Silica " 20”, p. 16
  • Description: “board” (as of 1938, 1960), p. 1207

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

  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 248
  • Made at: “Nashua Plant (1907 to 1985): Transite Core Plates, Pallets and Slip Jackets; Transite Core Plate Sheets” (at Nashua) (the plant: Nashua, New Hampshire), p. 248

Kind of product

We list Transite Core Plate (Johns-Manville) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers.

Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)

Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Temp-Tite · Therm-o-bestos · Thermo Fire Felt · Thermomat · Thermowrap · Transite · Transite Acoustical Panel · Transite Insulated Roof · Transite Panel · Transite Sewer Pipe · Transite-Korduct · Transitop · Tuff-Link · Type A Asbestos Millboard · Type A Millboard · 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) · Therm-O-Tec (National Gypsum) · Thermalux (U.S. Gypsum) · Thermo-board (Philip Carey) · Timbertex (Ruberoid) · Tip Top (Ambler Asbestos Shingle & Sheathing Company) · Top Notch (Lehon) · Trafford Tile (Keasbey & Mattison) · Tri-Tone (Philip Carey) · Triple A (Atlantic Asphalt & Asbestos) · Triple Aaa Hip & Ridge Shingles (Atlantic Asphalt & Asbestos) · Turnall "Colourgaze" (Atlas Asbestos) · Turnall (Turners Asbestos) · Turnall Granitone (Turners Asbestos) · Turnall Weatherall (Turners Asbestos Cement Co. Ltd. (Turner & Newall)) · Turnall Weatherall (Turners Asbestos Cement) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

See also

References

  1. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories with exhibits (March 27, 1970), p. 30.
  2. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 9.
  3. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiff's interrogatories with exhibits (December 29, 1969), p. 30.
  4. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 15.
  5. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 125.
  6. Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for TRANSITE Core Plate (February 10, 1982), p. 1.
  7. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 120. Not yet published in our library.
  8. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 24.

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