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Vitribestos (Johns-Manville)

Vitribestos was a Johns-Manville lining for smoke stacks and breechings.1,2 In 1940, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, called it "a rigid cellular insulation designed by Johns-Manville for such purposes."3

An insurance company's 1981 product list, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, lists Vitribestos as a paper, felt or blanket made from 1907 to 1959.4

In August 1920, Asbestos reprinted a report that a new steel stack would be lined with Johns-Manville Vitribestos stack lining "to protect chimney against corrosion and maintain temperature of the flue gases."1 J-M's employee magazine, The J-M Circle, reported jobs in December 1929 whose specifications included Vitribestos lining for breeching and stack, in one case a 2-inch Vitribestos lining in the stack.2 In February 1930 it reported a $6,000 contract for 85% Magnesia, Johns-Manville Improved Asbestocel and Vitribestos Lining for the breeching and stack of the Citizen's Building at Decatur, Ill.5 In 1940 Asbestos reported that two smoke stacks at Chicago's new sewage plant were lined with 3-inch Vitribestos.3

See also Asbestocel.

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What each document says

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

Asbestos Magazine, 1920, August 1920

  • Use: “Johns-Manville Vitribestos stack lining to protect chimney against corrosion and maintain temperature of the flue gases” (sales to St. Joseph Railway Light, Heat and Power Company (St. Joseph, Mo.)), said by Electrical Railway Journal, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 501

The J-M Circle, 1929, December 1929

  • Use: “Vitribestos lining for breeching and stack” (sales to new 42-story office building at La Salle Street and Wacker Drive, Chicago), said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by The J-M Circle (J-M employee magazine), p. 222
  • Use: “2-inch Vitribestos lining in the stack” (sales to new Chicago Board of Trade Building, La Salle and Jackson Streets), said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by The J-M Circle (J-M employee magazine), p. 222

Asbestos Magazine, 1940, February 1940

  • Use: “Two smoke stacks were lined with 3" Vitribestos” (sales to Southwest Side sewage treatment works, Chicago), p. 83
  • Description: “a rigid cellular insulation designed by Johns-Manville for such purposes” (as of 1940), p. 103

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

  • Made from: “07”, p. 94
  • Form: “PAPER,FELT,BLANKETS”, p. 94
  • Made until: “59”, p. 94

The J-M Circle, 1930, February 1930

  • Use: “Vitribestos Lining for the breeching and stack” (sales to Citizen's Building, Decatur, Ill.), said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by The J-M Circle (J-M employee magazine), p. 175

Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)

  • Made from: “produced 1907 to 1959”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 146
  • Made until: “produced 1907 to 1959”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 146
  • Description: “Asbestos Felts-Corrugated ... corrugated felt”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 146
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos fiber, 95 to 98%”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 146

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

  • Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1908”, p. 1277
  • Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1959”, p. 1277
  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1277
  • Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1277
  • Description: “Made of asbestos felts which have been corrugated and built up to form a cellular sheet, then vitrified”, p. 727
  • Form: “Sheet/Block”, p. 1277
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 637
  • Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Vitribestos” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 637
  • Use: “Used for lining smokestacks and flues ... wherever a strong, stiff product is required”, p. 727
  • Temperature limit: “resist temperatures up to 800 degrees F”, p. 727
  • Description: “asbestos thermal insulation boards” (as of 1953), p. 1248

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

  • Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Vitribestos” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 239
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 239

Kind of product

We list Vitribestos (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation, asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet and paper, felt and millboard, 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 · Superex-1900 · Superex-m · Superex-sg · Therm-o-bestos · Thermo Fire Felt · Thermowrap · Train Pipe Covering · Vitro Fire Felt · White Surface Asbestos Jacket · Zerogloss · Air-Cell · Anti-sweat · Asbesto-metallic · Asbesto-sponge · Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt · 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) · Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Unibestos (Pittsburgh Corning) · Unibestos 1200 (Unarco) · Unibestos 750 (Unarco) · V-dent (Nicolet) · V-Dent (Norristown Magnesia & Asbestos) · Vercel (Eagle-Picher) · Watcocell (GAF) · Weber's HT (Forty-Eight Insulations) · Webers 48 (Forty-Eight Insulations) · Wovenstone (Unarco) · York Asbestos (York Insulation) · Zebra (Keasbey & Mattison) · Zebra (Nicolet) · 12 (Combustion Engineering) · 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 · Transite Sewer Pipe · Transite-Korduct · Transitop · Tuff-Link · Type A Asbestos Millboard · Type A Millboard · Veneered Marinite · Vitro Fire Felt · Xxx Asbestos Millboard · Xxx Millboard · 101 · 101 Asbestos Millboard · 101 Mobilene Sheet · 102 Asbestos Millboard · 102 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) · 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) · 'Century' Apac (Keasbey & Mattison) · 4.2 Careystone (Philip Carey) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1920, August 1920 (August 1, 1920), p. 50.
  2. The J-M Circle, 1929, December 1929 (December 1, 1929), p. 22.
  3. Asbestos Magazine, 1940, February 1940 (February 1, 1940), pp. 8, 10.
  4. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 9.
  5. The J-M Circle, 1930, February 1930 (February 1, 1930), p. 17.
  6. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 14.
  7. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 127.
  8. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 124. Not yet published in our library.
  9. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 23.

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