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'Century' Apac (Keasbey & Mattison)

"Century" Apac was an asbestos-cement sheet made by Keasbey & Mattison Company.1,2 A 1954 history of the company in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, called it "a brand new K&M development" of the war years that "helped to ease the acute war-time building bottleneck," and described it as "a flat, low-cost asbestos-cement sheet of unusual versatility."3 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, lists it as sheet material.4

In 1946 the magazine reported that during the war Keasbey & Mattison supplied "tremendous quantities" of Apac for the U.S. Navy's lighter-than-air hangar program, where it was used as exterior sheathing for the hangar doors.2 The 1954 history said more square footage of it was used for industrial war construction than any other sheathing of its type.3

Keasbey & Mattison's 1948 ads offered "all purpose asbestos-cement sheets," "durable, weather-and-fire resistant," and showed it as exterior sheathing on the front of an aircraft assembly plant.1 In 1954 the magazine wrote that Apac was "in wide demand for dozens of structural uses."3

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Every statement about 'Century' Apac (Keasbey & Mattison) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1948, June 1948

  • Use: “exterior sheathing of an aircraft assembly plant front”, p. 111
  • Description: “all purpose asbestos-cement sheets; durable, weather-and-fire resistant”, p. 111

Asbestos Magazine, 1946, February 1946

  • Use: “exterior sheathing for the doors of U.S. Navy blimp hangars during the war” (sales to U.S. Navy lighter-than-air hangar program), p. 142

Asbestos Magazine, 1954, February 1954

  • Sold from: “a brand new K&M development called "Century" Apac helped to ease the acute war-time building bottleneck”, p. 103
  • Description: “a flat, low-cost asbestos-cement sheet of unusual versatility”, p. 103

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

  • Form: “SHEET MATERIAL”, p. 34

Label: Apac Board (Keasbey & Mattison Company), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: September, 1956”, said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file5
  • Description: “asbestos fiber, Portland cement” (as of 1953), p. 676

Kind of product

We list 'Century' Apac (Keasbey & Mattison) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe its form. 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 · Ebonized Asbestos · Fluid-Tite · Apac · Air-Duct · Promenade Tile · Resistal · Sheetflextos · Strytex · T-deck · Trafford Tile · Uni-syn Packing · Aircell · Amberlite Packing · Apac Board · Asbestoroc · Chrom-Tex · Dualay · Industal · Industrial · 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.) · Watcocell (GAF) · Woodrock (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Woodrock (National Gypsum) · Xxx Asbestos Millboard (Johns-Manville) · Xxx Millboard (Johns-Manville) · Yankee (Beacon Sales Company) · "Not A Kick In A Million Feet" (Lehon) · 101 (Johns-Manville) · 101 Asbestos Millboard (Johns-Manville) · 101 Mobilene Sheet (Johns-Manville) · 102 Asbestos Millboard (Johns-Manville) · 102 Millboard (Johns-Manville) · 103 Asbestos Millboard (Johns-Manville) · 103 Millboard (Johns-Manville) · 104 Asbestos Millboard (Johns-Manville) · and 330 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1948, June 1948 (June 1, 1948), p. 11.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1946, February 1946 (February 1, 1946), p. 14.
  3. Asbestos Magazine, 1954, February 1954 (February 1, 1954), p. 10.
  4. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 3.
  5. Label: Apac Board (Keasbey & Mattison Company), Image.
  6. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 67. Not yet published in our library.

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