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Hard Top Finishing Cement (Kaiser Refractories)

Documents in our library describe Hard Top Finishing Cement (Kaiser Refractories) as “a hydraulic-setting insulating and finishing cement designed for use on heated equipment of all types, including valves, fittings and pipes”.1 They give it as sold from 1959.2 It was rated for temperatures up to 1200 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Hard Top Finishing Cement (Kaiser Refractories) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Kaiser Refractories (excerpt) (1960s)

  • Use: “a one-coat finish over block and blanket insulation”, p. 61
  • Description: “a hydraulic-setting insulating and finishing cement designed for use on heated equipment of all types, including valves, fittings and pipes”, p. 61
  • Temperature limit: “where temperatures do not exceed 1200°F”, p. 61

Kaiser Product Identification: Kaiser Asbestos-Containing Products (Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation trust papers, 2007)

  • Sold from: “Hard Top Finishing Cement – Mud 1959-1972”, p. 12
  • Sold until: “Hard Top Finishing Cement – Mud 1959-1972”, p. 12

Kind of product

We list Hard Top Finishing Cement (Kaiser Refractories) with insulating cement and coatings, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Boilermakers.

Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (324)

Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · Fr-300 (Flintkote) · Fuller Lagging (H. P. Fuller) · General Refractories (General Refractories) · Gold Bond Asbestos 7M-2 (National Gypsum) · Grade 115 Cement (Ruberoid) · Grade 214 Insulating Cement (Ruberoid) · H.W. (Harbison Walker) · Heat Treating Cement (Johns-Manville) · Heat-seal (Keene/Beh) · Hi Glos (Forty-Eight Insulations) · Hi Therm (M. H. Detrick) · Hi-Spred No. 43-784 (Morningstar-Paisley) · Hi-stick (Eagle-Picher) · Hightemp #12 (Philip Carey) · Hilite (Combustion Engineering) · and 304 more: all insulating cement and coatings

References

  1. Kaiser Refractories (excerpt) (1960s), p. 6.
  2. Kaiser Product Identification: Kaiser Asbestos-Containing Products (Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation trust papers, 2007) (2007), p. 1.

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“Hard Top Finishing Cement (Kaiser Refractories).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/kaiser-refractories-hard-top.

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