Documents in our library describe Custom Molded 85% Magnesia (Mundet Cork) as “block and pipe covering”.1 It was rated for temperatures up to 600 °F.1,2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Label: MUNDET CUSTOM MOLDED 85% MAGNESIA PIPE COVERINGLabel or package · ACL Doc 15042
Label: MUNDET CUSTOM MOLDED 85% MAGNESIA (Mundet Cork Corporation)Label or package · ACL Doc 15041
What each document says
Every statement about Custom Molded 85% Magnesia (Mundet Cork) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)
- Temperature limit: “Atmos to 600”, p. 801
- Form: “Block and Pipe Covering”, p. 801
- Description: “Composed of not less than 85% by volume of hydrated magnesium carbonate and the balance of asbestos fibers. Relatively soft. Absorbant, will soften when wet. Rigid.”, p. 801
- Asbestos content: “Magnesium Carbonate and Asbestos”, p. 801
Asbestos Magazine, 1956, September 1956
- Temperature limit: “600 "CUSTOM-MOLDED" 85% MAGNESIA”, p. 152
Asbestos Magazine, 1957, June 1957
- Description: “"custom-molded" 85% Magnesia heat insulation”, p. 253
Kind of product
We list Custom Molded 85% Magnesia (Mundet Cork) with pipe covering and block insulation, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains 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 Mundet Cork (7)
Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (269)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Celite (Johns-Manville) · Cell-O-Tone (Norristown Magnesia & Asbestos Company) · Celo-temp (Celotex) · Champion Sectional Covering (Johns-Manville) · Cobra (Johns-Manville) · Colorthin (Johns-Manville) · CS (Riva & Mariani) · D.E. Block (Eagle-Picher) · Defendex (Philip Carey) · Detrick (Combustion Engineering) · Dri-mag (Crown Cork & Seal) · Dual Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Duplex (Armstrong Cork) · Duplex (Keasbey & Mattison) · Durant (Keene/Ehret) · and 249 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
References
- Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 80.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1956, September 1956 (September 1, 1956), p. 15.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1957, June 1957 (June 1, 1957), p. 25.
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