Uniseal was a Johns-Manville sealing compound.1,2 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives it as made from 1957 to 1974.1
A 1990 EPA notice that published what Manville reported gives 1957 to 1977, but as one date range for a group of nine putty-like sealing compounds that includes Uniseal.2 The notice gives only figures for the whole group: asbestos, 25 to 65%, with butane polymer, castor oil, chlorinated paraffin, calcium carbonate and smaller amounts of other ingredients, packaged as pugs in fiberboard cartons.2
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What each document says
Every statement about Uniseal (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)
Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)
- Made from: “produced 1957 to 1977”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
- Made until: “produced 1957 to 1977”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
- Ingredient: “butane polymer, 0 to 40%; calcium carbonate, 0 to 20%; titanium dioxide, 0 to 5%; carbon black, 0 to 1%; castor oil, 0 to 40%; magnesium oxide, 0 to 1%; chlorinated paraffin, 0 to 55%; stearic acid, 0 to 1%”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
- Form: “Putty-like Sealing Compound ... Pugs-packaged in fiberboard cartons”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
- Asbestos content: “asbestos, 25 to 65%”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 142
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1947”, p. 1263
- Use: “General purpose”, p. 803
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1975”, p. 1263
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1263
- Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Uniseal” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 633
- Form: “Sealing Compound”, p. 1263
- Asbestos content: “53.0 - 59.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1263
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 633
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1263
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “sealing compound” (as of 1957-1974), p. 1224
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Uniseal” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 235
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 235
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. 9.
- Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 14.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 126.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 122. 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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