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Vitro Fire Felt (Johns-Manville)

Vitro Fire Felt was an asbestos felt insulation made by Johns-Manville.1,2 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, lists it under Johns-Manville among paper, felt and blankets, made from 1924 to 1949.2

A 1990 EPA notice that published what Manville reported names the product in two group entries, with different dates: under "Asbestos Roll Fire Felt," a felt, it lists "Vitro Firefelt, Gold Line" as produced from 1891 to 1973, containing asbestos fiber, 95 to 98%.1 Under corrugated asbestos felts, it lists "VitroFire Felt" with Vitrobestos, a corrugated felt produced from 1907 to 1959, with the same 95 to 98% asbestos fiber.1 Both figures are for the whole group in each entry, not for Vitro Fire Felt alone.1

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What each document says

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

Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (1990)

  • Made from: “produced 1891 to 1973”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 141
  • Made from: “produced 1907 to 1959”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 141
  • Made until: “produced 1907 to 1959”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 141
  • Made until: “produced 1891 to 1973”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 141
  • Form: “Asbestos Roll Fire Felt ... felt”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 141
  • 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. 141
  • Description: “corrugated felt”, said by Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. EPA, Federal Register 55 FR (Feb. 13, 1990), p. 141

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

  • Made from: “24”, p. 92
  • Made until: “49”, p. 92
  • Form: “PAPER,FELT,BLANKETS”, p. 92

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

  • Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1908”, p. 1273
  • Form: “Sheet/Block”, p. 1273
  • Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1936”, p. 1273
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 633
  • Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Vitro Fire Felt” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 633
  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1273
  • Description: “Similar to Thermo FIRE FELT except that the cellular asbestos structure is vitrified to increase rigidity”, p. 723
  • Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1273
  • Description: “felt” (as of 1924-1949), p. 1244

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

  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 235
  • Made at: “Waukegan Plant (1922 to 1985): Vitro Fire Felt” (at Waukegan) (the plant: Waukegan, Illinois), p. 285
  • Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Vitro Fire Felt” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 235

Kind of product

We list Vitro Fire Felt (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-m · Superex-sg · Therm-o-bestos · Thermo Fire Felt · Thermowrap · Train Pipe Covering · Vitribestos · White Surface Asbestos Jacket · Zerogloss · Air-Cell · Anti-sweat · Asbesto-metallic · Asbesto-sponge · Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt · Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt Covering · 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-Korduct · Transitop · Tuff-Link · Type A Asbestos Millboard · Type A Millboard · Veneered Marinite · Vitribestos · Xxx Asbestos Millboard · Xxx Millboard · 101 · 101 Asbestos Millboard · 101 Mobilene Sheet · 102 Asbestos Millboard · 102 Millboard · 103 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) · 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) · 702 (Owens-Corning) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

See also

References

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

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