Documents in our library describe White Surface Asbestos Jacket (Johns-Manville) as “jacket”.1 They give it as made 1931–1971.1 They put its asbestos content at 82%.1 The asbestos named is chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about White Surface Asbestos Jacket (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: 1931”, p. 1271
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 641
- Form: “Jacket”, p. 1271
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1971”, p. 1271
- Asbestos content: “82.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1271
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1271
- Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): White Surface Asbestos Jacket” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 641
- Description: “A pipe insulation jacket made from asbestos weatherproof felt”, p. 791
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1271
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “paper, felt, blankets” (as of 1931-1968), p. 1252
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 233
- Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): White Surface Asbestos Jacket” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 233
Kind of product
We list White Surface Asbestos Jacket (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation and paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Johns-Manville (60)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestocel · 85 Magnesia · Thermobestos pipe covering · Superex-sg · Therm-o-bestos · Thermo Fire Felt · Thermowrap · Train Pipe Covering · Vitribestos · Vitro Fire Felt · Zerogloss · Air-Cell · Anti-sweat · Asbesto-metallic · Asbesto-sponge · Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt · Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt Covering · Asbestos Air Chamber 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) · 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) · 19 (Combustion Engineering) · 19 Hitemp (Philip Carey) · 66 (Eagle-Picher) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
Other paper, felt and millboard by Johns-Manville (89)
Min-k · Doublex · Thermomat · Firetard · Vitribestos · Thermotape · Thermowrap · Toasterbord · Transhield · Type GT · Ventsulation · Vitro Fire Felt · #50 Asbestos Weatherproofing Felt · 12# Asbestos Tape · 15A Asbestos Jacket · 45A Asbestos Jacket · 50 Weatherproofing · 770 Coated Asbestos Jacket · 7700 Coated Jacket · Akoustikos Felt · and 69 more on the company's page
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (210)
Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Uni Syn (Keasbey & Mattison) · Uniroof (Uni-Tubes Ltd. (England)) · V-dent (Nicolet) · Vangelder Papier (Koninklijke Papierfabrieken Van Gelder Zonen N.V.) · Vulca-Dek (Monroe) · Weldwood (U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers) · Wheeler (Wheeler Protective Apparel) · White Top Asbestos Jacket (Philip Carey) · Woolfelt (GAF) · Wovenstone (Unarco) · X-l (Excelsior) · Yankee (Beacon Sales Company) · "Not A Kick In A Million Feet" (Lehon) · 411 (Nicolet) · 580 (Nicolet) · and 190 more: all paper, felt and millboard
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. 125. 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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