Documents in our library describe 85 Magnesia (Keasbey & Mattison) as “pipecover,block,cement”.1 They give it as made until 1962.1,2 They put its asbestos content at 15%.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about 85 Magnesia (Keasbey & Mattison) in the documents, in each document's own words.
The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)
Kind of product
We list 85 Magnesia (Keasbey & Mattison) with pipe covering and block insulation and insulating cement and coatings, 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, Boilermakers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Keasbey & Mattison (12)
Duplex · K&M Best in Asbestos · Kay-Therm · Best Felt · Hy Temp · Non-sweat · Aircell · Featherweight · K & M · K & M Aircell · Simplex Super Shrink · Zebra
Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (264)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · 19 Hitemp (Philip Carey) · 66 (Eagle-Picher) · 7M (Crown Cork & Seal) · 85 Magnesia (Crown Cork & Seal) · 85 Magnesia (Fibreboard) · 85 Magnesia (Gaf/Ruberoid) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Philip Carey) · 85% Magnesia (Armstrong Cork) · 85% Magnesia (Eagle-Picher) · 85% Magnesia (Pabco Products) · Acoa (Asbestos Corp. of America) · Air Cell (GAF) · Air Cell (Mundet Cork) · Air-Cell (Johns-Manville) · and 244 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
Other insulating cement and coatings by Keasbey & Mattison (4)
Hy Temp · 152 · Amblerex 2 · Fibrous Adhesive
Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (320)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · 7M Short (Nicolet) · 7M Short Fiber (Mundet Cork) · 7M-90 (Celotex) · 81-27 and 81-93 (Benjamin Foster) · 85 Magnesia (Crown Cork & Seal) · 85 Magnesia (Fibreboard) · 85 Magnesia (Gaf/Ruberoid) · 85 Magnesia (Philip Carey) · 85% Magnesia Cement (Fibreboard) · 85% Magnesia Cement (Johns-Manville) · 90-07 H.I. Mastic (Benjamin Foster) · 99 (Eagle-Picher) · 99 Finishing Cement (Eagle-Picher) · A-1 (Philip Carey) · A-1199 (Combustion Engineering) · and 300 more: all insulating cement and coatings
See also
- 85% Magnesia in the Lexicon
- Keasbey & Mattison: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Keasbey & Mattison on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 10.
- Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981 (July 1, 1981), p. 28.
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