Documents in our library describe Veneered Marinite (Johns-Manville) as “board”.1 They give it as made 1955–1975.1 They put its asbestos content at 16% to 41%.1 The asbestos named is amosite and chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Veneered Marinite (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: 1955”, p. 1271
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: 1970”, p. 1271
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1975 - Asbestos Content”, p. 1271
- Asbestos fiber: “Amosite and/or Chrysotile”, p. 1271
- Form: “Board”, p. 1271
- Asbestos content: “16.0 - 41.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1271
- Asbestos fiber: “Amosite and/or Chrysotile”, p. 1271
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “board” (as of 1955), p. 1232
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 203
- Made at: “Billerica Plant (1940 to 1985): Veneered Marinite” (at Billerica) (the plant: Billerica, Massachusetts), p. 203
Kind of product
We list Veneered Marinite (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 · Transite Panel · Transite Sewer Pipe · Transite-Korduct · Transitop · Tuff-Link · Type A Asbestos Millboard · Type A Millboard · Vitribestos · Vitro Fire Felt · Xxx Asbestos Millboard · Xxx Millboard · 101 · 101 Asbestos Millboard · 101 Mobilene Sheet · 102 Asbestos 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) · Turnall Weatherall (Turners Asbestos Cement) · Unarcoboard (Owens-Corning) · Unarcoboard (Unarco) · Uni-syn Packing (Keasbey & Mattison) · Usg (maker not given) · Usg (U.S. Gypsum) · Vanguard (GAF) · Vitramic (maker not given) · Vitramic (Ruberoid) · Vitricel (Philip Carey) · Watcocell (GAF) · Woodrock (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Woodrock (National Gypsum) · Yankee (Beacon Sales Company) · "Not A Kick In A Million Feet" (Lehon) · 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), p. 127.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 123. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 20.
Cite this page
“Veneered Marinite (Johns-Manville).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/johns-manville-veneered-marinite.
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