Documents in our library describe Apac (Keasbey & Mattison) as “asbestos-cement sheets ... durable, weather-and-fire resistant”.1 They give it as sold from 1942.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Apac (Keasbey & Mattison) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1948, June 1948
- Description: “asbestos-cement sheets ... Durable, weather-and-fire resistant”, p. 111
Asbestos Magazine, 1954, February 1954
Asbestos Magazine, 1950, June 1950
- Use: “ideal for exterior and interior surfaces” (sales to Blue Ribbon Laundry), p. 93
The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)
- Description: “SHEET MATERIAL, KEASBEY & MATTISON, 'CENTURY' APAC”, p. 184
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “Apac (listed, product not given)”, p. 545
Kind of product
We list Apac (Keasbey & Mattison) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Keasbey & Mattison (33)
Century · 'Century' Apac · Ebonized Asbestos · Fluid-Tite · Air-Duct · Sheetflextos · Strytex · T-deck · Trafford Tile · Uni-syn Packing · Aircell · Amberlite Packing · Apac Board · Asbestoroc · Chrom-Tex · Dualay · Industal · Industrial · K & M 103 · K & M 601 · and 13 more on the company's page
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (350)
Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Aircell (Nicolet) · Allstate (Sears) · Alumco (American Lumber Company) · American Colonial (Johns-Manville) · American Thatch (GAF) · American Thatch (Ruberoid) · Anti-sweat (Johns-Manville) · Arta-Seal (CertainTeed) · Asbestex (Supercrete Pipes S.A.) · Asbestile (Asbestile S.A.) · Asbesto-sponge (Johns-Manville) · Asbestobiex (Cape Asbestos) · Asbestoboard (Johns-Manville) · Asbestobord (Johns-Manville) · Asbestocel (Johns-Manville) · and 330 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
See also
- 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
- Asbestos Magazine, 1948, June 1948 (June 1, 1948), p. 11.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1954, February 1954 (February 1, 1954), p. 10.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1950, June 1950 (June 1, 1950), p. 9.
- The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 1, 1981), p. 18.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 54. Not yet published in our library.
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